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About the Author | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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The Intro | |
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What's in a name? | |
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Who should use it? | |
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Affordable Pro Tools Systems | |
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Speakers, Headphones, and Microphones | |
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Home Studio Setups | |
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Laptop Musicians | |
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Mac or PC? | |
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Pro Tools LE Software | |
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Pro Tools M-Powered Software | |
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Transfers | |
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Included Software | |
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Even more software | |
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What you don't get in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered | |
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What's in the book | |
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Hardware Options for Pro Tools LE and M-Powered Systems | |
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Digi 001 | |
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Low Latency Monitoring on the Digi 001 | |
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Monitoring latency and MIDI | |
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Digi 002 Rack | |
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Front panel | |
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Rear panel | |
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The Mbox | |
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The front panel | |
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The back panel | |
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Zero-latency monitoring | |
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Exploring the Mbox mix control | |
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Summary | |
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Mbox 2 | |
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Front panel | |
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Rear panel | |
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M-Audio M-Powered Interfaces for Pro Tools | |
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FireWire vs USB | |
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FireWire Interfaces | |
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Ozonic | |
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FireWire 410 & FireWire 1814 | |
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FireWire Audiophile | |
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FireWire Solo | |
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PCI Cards and Interfaces | |
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Audiophile 2496 & Audiophile 192 | |
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Delta 1010 | |
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Delta 1010 LT | |
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Delta 44 | |
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Delta 66 | |
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Latest Additions | |
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The Digi 002 and the Command / 8 | |
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The Digi 002 | |
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Rear panel | |
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The control surface | |
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Top section | |
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Middle section | |
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Home view | |
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Console View Selectors | |
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Insert/Send Position Selectors | |
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Channel Scribble Strips | |
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Display Scribble Strips and Display Mode switch | |
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More Buttons and Status Indicators | |
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Rotary Encoders | |
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Channel Select | |
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Channel View | |
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Multi-mono Plug-ins | |
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Lower Section | |
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Faders | |
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Transport Controls | |
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Navigation & Zoom | |
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Window Show/Hide and Playback Mode Switches | |
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Fader Flip & Master Faders | |
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Function/Utility Keys | |
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Keyboard Modifier Switches | |
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Digi 002 Modes | |
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Standalone Mode | |
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Hooking up external sources to the Digi 002 in Standalone mode | |
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Digidesign Command / 8 Control Surface | |
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Getting to know the Pro Tools LE Software | |
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Pro Tools LE Overview | |
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Track Priority and Voice Assignment | |
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The Mix Window | |
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Plug-ins | |
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Tracks | |
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Inserts | |
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Sends | |
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I/O Selectors | |
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The Edit Window | |
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The Edit Modes | |
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Zoom Buttons | |
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Choose Your Tool | |
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Repairing Waveforms using the Pencil Tool | |
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Location Indicators | |
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Edit window controls and displays | |
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Keyboard Focus | |
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The Rulers | |
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Scrolling Options | |
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Playback Cursor Locator | |
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The Transport Window | |
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Pro Tools LE Menus | |
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Pro Tools Menu | |
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File Menu | |
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Edit Menu | |
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View Menu | |
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Track Menu | |
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Region Menu | |
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Event Menu | |
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AudioSuite Menu | |
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Options Menu | |
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Setup Menu | |
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Window Menu | |
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Help Menu | |
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Browser, browser, browser... | |
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The Task Window | |
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The Relink Window | |
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Drag and Drop Features | |
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What this chapter has covered | |
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Getting Started | |
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Installing the software | |
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Restoring the default Preferences | |
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Opening a New Session | |
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Choosing File Types | |
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Choosing Sample Rates and Bit Depths | |
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Saving your Session | |
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What gets saved | |
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Why you should use an external hard drive | |
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Allocating Hard Disk Space | |
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Round Robin Disk Allocation | |
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Record Allocation | |
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Setting up the inputs and outputs | |
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Setting up your first new session with Audio and MIDI tracks, Auxiliary inputs and Master faders | |
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Importing MIDI and Audio | |
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Using the Workspace Browser to import audio using drag & drop | |
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Importing Loops & Samples | |
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Transferring audio into Pro Tools from CD, DAT or other digital sources | |
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Importing video | |
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Importing Audio from Video | |
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What this chapter has covered | |
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Tempos & Grooves | |
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Setting up Tempo, Meter and Click | |
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Setting the Meter | |
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Setting Tempos | |
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Manual tempo mode | |
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Tempo events | |
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Building tempo maps | |
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Tempo Operations | |
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Using the Click | |
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Adjusting Tempos | |
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Adjusting the Session tempo to the tempo of imported (or recorded) audio | |
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Adjusting the tempo of imported (or recorded) audio to the session tempo | |
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What is Beat Detective? | |
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So why not use Beat Detective? | |
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OK, let's use Beat Detective! | |
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Beat Detective Features | |
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Using Beat Detective to adjust the Session tempo to the tempo of an imported audio file | |
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Using Beat Detective to adjust the tempo of an imported audio file to the Session tempo | |
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Using REX and ACID Files | |
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To Import a REX or ACID File | |
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What this chapter has explained | |
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Recording MIDI and using Virtual Instruments | |
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MIDI Setup | |
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MIDI Studio... | |
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MIDI Beat Clock... | |
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MIDI Input Filter... | |
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MIDI Input Devices... | |
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Getting Started | |
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Setting up to Record MIDI onto a track | |
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Recording onto a MIDI or Instrument track | |
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Loop recording MIDI | |
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Playing back a MIDI or Instrument track | |
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Assigning Multiple MIDI Output Assignments | |
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Using Virtual Instruments | |
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Using Instrument Tracks | |
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Using Reason, Live, and SampleTank | |
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ReWire | |
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Troubleshooting | |
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Looping Playback when using ReWire | |
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Propellerhead Reason | |
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Overview | |
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Recording Reason synths | |
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Setting up the Reason Synthesizers | |
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Routing MIDI from Pro Tools to Reason | |
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Recording from Reason into Pro Tools | |
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Developing and recording material using Ableton Live | |
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Overview | |
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Using Ableton Live with Pro Tools | |
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Recording from Ableton Live into Pro Tools | |
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IK Multimedia SampleTank 2 | |
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Overview | |
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Adding sampled material using SampleTank | |
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Recording from SampleTank into Pro Tools | |
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Making tracks inactive to conserve processing resources | |
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Recording virtual instruments as Audio | |
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What this chapter has explained | |
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Editing MIDI | |
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Editing Basics | |
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Bars, Beats and Clock 'Ticks' | |
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Graphic Editing | |
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Event List Editing | |
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Remove Duplicate Notes | |
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Stuck Notes | |
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Useful Keyboard Commands | |
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Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear Commands | |
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Marquee Zooming | |
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Keyboard Zoom Commands | |
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Individual Vertical Zoom | |
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The MIDI Operations Windows | |
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Grid/Groove Quantize | |
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Grid Quantize | |
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Groove Quantize | |
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Input Quantize | |
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Restore Performance | |
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Flatten Performance | |
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Change Velocity | |
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Change Duration | |
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Transpose | |
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Select and Split Notes | |
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Step Input | |
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MIDI Real-Time Properties | |
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How to compensate for monitoring latency when using external MIDI devices | |
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How to compensate for triggering delays when using external MIDI devices | |
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Quick Start Editing Session | |
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Programming Beats | |
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Manually correcting mistakes | |
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MIDI Loop Recording | |
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MIDI Drum-machine style recording | |
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Repeating Patterns | |
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Mirrored Edits | |
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What you have learned | |
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Recording Audio | |
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Preparing to Record | |
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Monitoring Levels vs Input Gain Levels | |
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Auto Input vs Input Only Monitoring | |
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Latency | |
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Using an external mixer | |
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Zero Latency Monitoring | |
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Low Latency Monitoring | |
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Record Enabling | |
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Record Safe Mode | |
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Other Record Modes | |
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Recording through plug-ins | |
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Your first Audio Recording | |
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First Fixes | |
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Recording over an existing region | |
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First Edits | |
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Separating and Moving Regions | |
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Recording multiple 'takes' | |
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Punch Recording | |
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Loop Recording | |
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Selecting Takes | |
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QuickPunch | |
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Saving your Sessions | |
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Tidying up your Sessions | |
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What you have learned | |
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Editing Audio | |
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Overview | |
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Basic Editing | |
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Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear Commands | |
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Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear Commands | |
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Making an Edit Selection using the Edit Selection Indicators | |
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Working with Multiple Tracks | |
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Master Views | |
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Other Track Views | |
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The Edit modes | |
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Slip Mode | |
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Shuffle Mode | |
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Spot Mode | |
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Grid Mode | |
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Making Timeline Selections | |
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Linked Timeline and Edit Selections | |
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Unlinked Timeline and Edit Selections | |
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The Playback and Edit Markers | |
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Linked Track and Edit Selections | |
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Finding your way around the Edit window | |
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Track View Toggle | |
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Zoom Toggle | |
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Getting used to Zooming around | |
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Continuous Zooming | |
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Looped Playback | |
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Scrolling Options | |
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Timeline Insertion Follows Playback | |
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Useful Shortcuts | |
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Finding the ends of the selection | |
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Working with Regions | |
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Sync Points | |
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Nudging Regions | |
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Useful Region Editing Commands | |
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Shift Region | |
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Duplicate Region | |
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Repeat Region | |
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Lock Region | |
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Mute Region | |
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Quantize to Grid | |
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Region Groups | |
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Region Looping | |
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Editing Looped Regions | |
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Stripping Silence from regions | |
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Inserting Silence | |
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Consolidating Regions | |
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Compacting Audio Files | |
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What you have learned | |
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Mixing | |
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Overview | |
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Monitoring | |
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Monitoring Levels | |
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Metering | |
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Fat Meters | |
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Master Fader Tracks | |
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Multiple Output Assignments | |
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Making Tracks Inactive | |
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Grouping Tracks | |
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Track Output Windows | |
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Using Auxiliary Tracks | |
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Using Sends | |
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Automating Sends | |
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Returns | |
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Send and Return Submixing for Effects Processing | |
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Automation | |
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Creating Automation | |
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Automation Write Modes | |
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Automation Playlists | |
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Editing Automation Data | |
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Thinning Automation | |
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Creating Automation using the mouse | |
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The Final Mix | |
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Mixdown | |
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Recording to a Stereo Mastering Recorder | |
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Bounce to Disk | |
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Recording to Tracks | |
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When to Use Dither | |
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What you have learned | |
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Backups and Transfers | |
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Backups | |
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Transfers | |
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Preparing Pro Tools Sessions for Transfer | |
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Types of Transfers | |
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Moving Pro Tools Sessions between Systems | |
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Mac/PC Compatibility | |
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Transferring Files between Different Computer Platforms | |
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Moving between Pro Tools [vertical bar] HD and Pro Tools LE or M-Powered systems | |
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Transferring Pro Tools 7 Sessions to earlier versions | |
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Working with offline media | |
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Transferring Projects between applications | |
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The Hard Way: Using a MIDI file and separate audio files | |
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The Easy Way: Using MIDI and OMF, AES31, or AAF files | |
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Preparing Projects for Transfer | |
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Checklist | |
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OMF and AAF | |
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Exporting AAF and OMF from Pro Tools | |
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Importing AAF and OMF files into Pro Tools | |
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Using the Import Session Data command to import an OMF file | |
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Opening an OMF file into a new Pro Tools session | |
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DV Toolkit for LE | |
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DV Toolkit | |
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DV Toolkit 2 | |
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DigiTranslator | |
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Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction | |
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Synchro Arts VocALign Project | |
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DV Toolkit Time Code Features | |
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Timebase Rulers | |
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Scrubber Tool for scrubbing a Movie track | |
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Custom Shuttle Lock Speed | |
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Time Code Mapping Options | |
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Use Subframes Option | |
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Session Setup Window | |
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Time Code rates and Feet+Frame rates | |
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Pull Up and Pull Down | |
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Time Code Setup Commands | |
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Redefine Current Time Code Position | |
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Redefine Current Feet+Frames Position | |
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Redefine External Time Code Offset | |
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More Info | |
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Books | |
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Other books by the Author | |
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Other books about Pro Tools | |
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Mixing Techniques | |
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Music Production Techniques | |
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MIDI Recording Techniques and Theory | |
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DVDs | |
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Magazines | |
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Websites | |
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Index | |