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Post by EmRR on Jul 28, 2024 20:15:44 GMT -6
The thing I love about DP most is the ability to have multiple sessions within a session, and within those, store multiple mixes. Whole album in one project, simple duplication/comparison of anything quickly. I don’t see anything remotely similar in PT. Multiple takes of a song stored as take layers rather than in linear fashion is what I do, makes live take comping easy. No native meter bridge in PT is a no-go on live work too, in DP i hit a tab and have a full screen scaleable 50 channel meter bridge I can see across a room on a laptop. I’m all ears if there are similar PT solutions. I don’t even know what the hell you’re talking about…so I guess that’s why I don’t miss it in Pro Tools. Had a DP session recently with 40 songs in it, different duplicates of the same template, live group playing, so all “the same” but ability to dial each mix differently. Do a remix, duplicate the last mix, make changes. Need to roll something back or see what was up in an earlier mix? Toggle the mix # back and forth in real time. Copy/paste audio or or plug settings between songs. No opening and closing anything. Group sends you a list of 10 songs their tracking with input list, set up a template, duplicate 9 times, pre-title all tracks, define tempos for each, all in one place. Add another “sequence” (as they call the “chapters” within a project), do the mastering or sequence there. One package. |
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Post by ragan on Jul 28, 2024 22:43:05 GMT -6
I don’t even know what the hell you’re talking about…so I guess that’s why I don’t miss it in Pro Tools. Had a DP session recently with 40 songs in it, different duplicates of the same template, live group playing, so all “the same” but ability to dial each mix differently. Do a remix, duplicate the last mix, make changes. Need to roll something back or see what was up in an earlier mix? Toggle the mix # back and forth in real time. Copy/paste audio or or plug settings between songs. No opening and closing anything. Group sends you a list of 10 songs their tracking with input list, set up a template, duplicate 9 times, pre-title all tracks, define tempos for each, all in one place. Add another “sequence” (as they call the “chapters” within a project), do the mastering or sequence there. One package. Is this different than just…doing multiple takes? That’s playlists in PT. They all sit layered and you can toggle/move/copy/paste/whatever between them. |
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Post by EmRR on Jul 29, 2024 8:10:00 GMT -6
Had a DP session recently with 40 songs in it, different duplicates of the same template, live group playing, so all “the same” but ability to dial each mix differently. Do a remix, duplicate the last mix, make changes. Need to roll something back or see what was up in an earlier mix? Toggle the mix # back and forth in real time. Copy/paste audio or or plug settings between songs. No opening and closing anything. Group sends you a list of 10 songs their tracking with input list, set up a template, duplicate 9 times, pre-title all tracks, define tempos for each, all in one place. Add another “sequence” (as they call the “chapters” within a project), do the mastering or sequence there. One package. Is this different than just…doing multiple takes? That’s playlists in PT. They all sit layered and you can toggle/move/copy/paste/whatever between them. 1000% different. Analogy would be 10 PT individual song projects in one session container stored as a shuffle-able list you can move between w/o closing one and opening another. You can automate an entire live show production if you need (music/theater/etc), songs playing in any shuffle-able order, swap out or remix any one w/o disturbing the whole. Have alt mixes that can be toggled. I can imagine some ways to make something like that work in PT but you’d have to automate EVERYTHING. Yesterday's session was 10 more songs with a live band that had already tracked 5. It's all in one file 'container', like chapters of a book you move between, duplicate layouts and mixer setups, reorder/delete/archive as needed. Every song has the usual multiple takes which are in take layers like PT playlists. The mix on each song has mix layers, so I can roll back to the first rough mix and see what's up if someone swears it's better....it happens! One session file. One audio folder. Every expected track and audio file already named in one central location. Band decides to move to another song, it's a couple seconds to change. They take a smoke break, I can work on anything in any song and be back on the one they left without closing or opening anything. If there's a general trend for a plug across all songs, I can copy/paste between songs while in record, so tweaking small bits is all that's left. I can look at the mixer on another song while in play or record in another one. I feel like the lack of stand-alone meter bridge might explain people’s demand for metering on preamps - I never felt a need moving from tape machines to ADATS to DP. PT makes me want other metering. Must be some solution some folks use ….back on OP, these are DP efficiencies I’d like to find versions of in PT. There may be some stupidly obvious thing I’m not seeing yet. |
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Post by chessparov on Jul 29, 2024 13:33:05 GMT -6
"Pro Tools efficiency tricks"? What is start with Reaper?  * Uh oh. I'm in Jeopardy now.  (Requisite Reaper post made) Chris *Even Reaper was hard for Geico Caveman here. |
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Post by EmRR on Aug 5, 2024 19:17:25 GMT -6
Is there a method for selecting and dragging multiple automation points?
Case is clips got dragged to a different time, automation with clips moved accordingly, but automation in busses was not selected and didn’t move. I might guess having the bus assigned in the group might do it? There’s gotta be other times you just need to grab and drag multiple points.
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Post by basspro on Aug 5, 2024 20:13:55 GMT -6
Clip gain Shift+Control and the up or down arrows. Also, writing volume automation and using the Convert Volume Automation to Clip Gain command. (you can also convert clip gain to volume automation, though I've not yet found a use for this). Shift+F to open and close folders. Monitoring through an armed track while mixing, and toggling in and out of input monitor by pressing Option-K. With this, you can easily a/b rough mixes, previous mix versions, or reference tracks. Using Clip FX in general (my two 'most often' uses are cleaning up plosives on vocals, and cleaning up cymbal bleed while editing tom mics). Nudge left and right by one value greater than selected, using the M and the / keys. Keep nudge set at 1ms, and nudge that value with < and > , or nudge by 10ms using M and /. Always link track and edit selection, and using P and ; for navigation, Shift S for solo, Shift M for mute, Shift R for Record, etc. And also roughly one million other uses. I guess this probably should have been the first thing I mentioned cuz it's probably the thing that makes me the fastest when using PT. I'll probably think of more to share here. Looking forward to reading others'. Hope to learn something new. The "convert volume automation to clip gain" tip changed my life! I've known this was possible before in PT HD/Ultimate but I didn't realize PT Studio can do it now. Busted out my Presonus Faderport for the first time in quite a while and put it to work! Thank you!!! I've always hated manually drawing clip gain automation and now I'll never have to do it again! |
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Post by sam on Aug 6, 2024 10:38:38 GMT -6
Im going to explain this incredibly poorly but there are ways to program quick keys in Apple’s accessibility that you can route to specific programs. I have a quick key for a click track (command + option + control + C) and it is very handy. I used to have it for HEAT too (H instead of C) but that broke a few updates ago and I never investigated why.
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