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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 | |