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Pro Tools LE Tutorials

Understanding Pro Tools / Key Features

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So what do you get with this system? You get a PC-I card, an I/O box and Pro Tools LE software. Can you use other audio sequencing software with this setup? Yes. Does it work well? Yes. But for much of your work, you are going to want to come back to Pro Tools for power, stability and transferability. You could be an artist, an engineer, producer, re-mixer, do post audio, sound effects, whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is that we have the coolest hardware/software package going and it's time to make some music. You can do whole songs in midi as I have here, then you can turn around and track part or all of this into audio. Then you can run midi and audio side by side in your song, or use all live musicians. One common way to work is do a lot of your pre-production in your home studio, and then bring your session to a full range recording studio to track for instance the drums in a nice drum room. You can record and arrange combination setups straight out of your synth (synthesizer), get them up in Pro Tools, do some time stretching, editing or processing with the best plug ins on the market. You want to remix something someone's done on another system? No problem, fly it into Pro Tools and go to work. You can bring in those files with time stamping intact. Maybe you just bought a CD of some hot break beats; bring them into Pro Tools, identify the tempo, set your session tempo, and slice and dice. You can get your drum track laid in this way and then start tracking your live instruments. You can work with your favorite hardware or software sampler to extend Pro Tools. And once you get those samples into Pro Tools, the possibilities are endless. Then once you get all your tracks right, you can use Pro Tools unsurpassed mixing and automation features to bounce your audio to disk; once you are happy with your music, Pro Tools will act as a Multimedia generator. You can bounce your music out as an MP3, then embed that MP3 file on a web page, post it up on the web; or import a quicktime movie; extract the audio out of the quicktime movie, work on it a bit and lay it back in. Or lay back your whole session into that quicktime movie. You could also ply out your mix and use it in video editing applications like final cut pro or after FX. You can use a program like 'Propeller Heads of Reason' to generate some cool midi beats. Then import those files into Pro Tools, and use them to trigger sounds from your hardware synthesizer, or from your software plug ins - like 'deadheads unity' or Native Instrument's 'Battery'. Once you get these modules generating sound, you can run additional plug ins in series and track their output to audio. You've got automation of almost every parameter in Pro Tools, including the most comprehensive and extensive plug in automation anywhere. But, we can do some studying and master our mixes for airplay, club mixes or do minimal final processing and take it to a mastering house. Okay so I've told you about all the cool things Pro Tools can do, so let's have some fun with it. While we learnt basic operations and some of the advanced operations too.

Tutorial Information

Course: Pro Tools LE
Author: Jonathan Kagi
SKU: 33363
ISBN: 1930519664
Release Date: 2002-07-24
Duration: 9.5 hrs / 122 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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