Pro Tools 210m - Music Production Techniques

Pro Tools 210M: Music Production Techniques covers techniques for working with Pro Tools systems in a professional music production environment. Concepts and skills learned in 101, 110, and 201 are reinforced with practical music-specific examples.

Topics include:

• 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)