Pro Tools 210M: Music Production Techniques

Topics

• Preparing a session — Matching session tempo to audio, using external MIDI devices, MIDI Beat Clock
• Tracking and overdubbing — Using Dynamic Transport, QuickPunch and TrackPunch, monitor modes, comping multiple takes
• Virtual instruments — Controlling VIs with control surfaces & MIDI controllers, routing multiple outputs from plug-ins
• Advanced MIDI production — MIDI Editor, MIDI real-time properties, Score Editor and score setup
• Professional editing techniques
• Sampling in Pro Tools — Using software samplers
• Professional audio editing techniques — Editing with Dynamic Transport, custom fades, Beat Detective for multitrack drums
• Key and tempo — Advanced tempo editing, graphic tempo editor, changing linearity display mode, working with key changes
• Arranging and producing — Window Configurations, replacing regions, playlist editing, song arrangement
• Mixing and automation — Delay compensation, MIDI offsets, Snapshot automation (aka, static mixer automation), Trim automation
• Printing your mix — MP3/WMA export, mirrored outputs, synchronizing with an external recorder
• Synchronization concepts (appendix)

Software Configuration

• Pro Tools HD 8
• EQ III
• Dynamics III
• Maxim
• Hybrid
• Strike
• Velvet
• Structure
• Eleven
• Transfuser
• AIR Dynamic Delay
• SoundReplacer
• TL Drum Rehab
• Pro Tools MP3 Option

System Configuration

• Pro Tools|HD 2 Accel
• SYNC I/O or SYNC HD
• MIDI I/O or similar multi-port MIDI interface
• C|24, D-Command, or D-Control
• 192 I/O, 96 I/O, or 96i I/O
• MIDI keyboard controller

Course Length
24 to 30 course hours.