Pro Tools 2021 Essential Training: 110

Course details

Learn next-level techniques to improve your skill and efficiency with Pro Tools. Frank Cook, author of Pro Tools 101, has designed this course in collaboration with Avid. He shares advanced tips and tricks that can improve your productivity, maximize your creativity, and elevate your sound. Frank starts by customizing the Pro Tools interface to meet the needs of a professional sound engineer: adjusting the input and output settings, adding extra tracks, and optimizing the display. He quickly moves into importing media and recording audio, including multiple takes and loops. Next, he explains how to work with MIDI and virtual instruments, including editing individual notes with the smart Pencil tool. He then shows how to warp sound with the Elastic Audio tool and fine-tune a performance. Then learn advanced editing and media-management techniques such as looping and exporting clips. He wraps up the course by demonstrating basic and advanced mixing techniques and effects automation and finishes off the sample project by bouncing down a final mix.

Learning objectives
Customizing I/O settings
Managing session data
Importing media files
Recording multiple takes
Recording in layers
Working with virtual instruments
Troubleshooting MIDI
Editing MIDI
Warping sound with Elastic Audio
Quantizing options
Editing with fades
Creating clip loops
Exporting clips
Using sends and returns
Working with plugins
Adding automation
Grouping tracks
Creating final media

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Advanced techniques with Pro Tools
02 - What you need to know
03 - How to use the exercise files
04 - Recent features and updates

1. Getting Started

05 - Starting work on a new session
06 - Configuring the Playback Engine
07 - Customizing I O settings
08 - Audition paths and default output bus
09 - Adding tracks as you work
10 - Edit and Mix windows display options
11 - Tracks List display options

2. Managing Session Data and Media Files

12 - Pro Tools software options
13 - Working with digital video
14 - Using Workspace browsers
15 - Using Soundbase
16 - Considerations for importing files
17 - Importing tracks from another session
18 - The benefits of using Clip Groups

3. Recording MIDI and Audio

19 - Working with meter changes
20 - Creating a gradual tempo change
21 - Recording with a click
22 - Preparing for punch-ins and overdubs
23 - Making and saving selections
24 - Recording multiple takes
25 - Auditioning multiple record takes
26 - Recording in layers with MIDI Merge mode

4. Working with MIDI and Virtual Instruments

27 - Understanding track timebases
28 - Changing the track timebase
29 - Working with virtual instruments
30 - Track views and controls for MIDI data
31 - Troubleshooting MIDI auditions
32 - Troubleshooting MIDI playback
33 - Editing MIDI clips
34 - Editing MIDI notes with the Pencil tool

5. Working with Elastic Audio

35 - Elastic Audio basics
36 - Warping sound with Elastic Audio
37 - Tightening a rhythm with Elastic Audio
38 - Experimenting with tempo
39 - Working with Elastic Audio markers
40 - Improving the quality of warped audio
41 - Using Elastic Audio to change pitch

6. Editing and Fine-Tuning a Performance

42 - Using the Smart Tool
43 - Quantize options for audio and MIDI
44 - Using the MIDI Real-Time Properties view
45 - Using the Real-Time Properties window
46 - Editing with fades

7. Advanced Editing and Media Management

47 - Track color-coding
48 - Creating clip loops
49 - Modifying clip loops
50 - Editing on the grid
51 - Working with AudioSuite plug-ins
52 - Locating clips in the Clip List
53 - Exporting clips

8. Basic Mixing and Signal Flow

54 - Evaluating a session
55 - Using inserts for effects processing
56 - Using sends and returns
57 - Working with sends
58 - Working with plug-ins
59 - Working with Master Faders

9. Writing and Editing Automation

60 - Automation overview
61 - Automation modes
62 - Working with automation
63 - Graphical editing of automation
64 - Cutting, copying, and pasting automation
65 - Removing automation from a track

10. Using Advanced Mixing Techniques and Creating Final Media

66 - Working with track subsets
67 - Using Folder Tracks for submixing
68 - Grouping tracks
69 - Working with groups
70 - Maximizing levels and adding dither
71 - Creating final media - The stereo bounce
72 - Creating final media - A slimmed archive

Conclusion

73 - Next steps

Pro Tools 2021 Essential Training: 110 - Advanced Techniques

Authors

Frank D. Cook