Here’s an outrageously simple idea I just read that could make managing your songs in Pro Tools a lot easier (if you’re using Pro Tools 6.7 or later).
Use the track colour coding to manage your song and use it to help visualize what parts are grouped together within your session. For example, make all [...]
This a little Pro Tools tip I picked up from an old interview with Junkie XL that was in one of the 2004 issues of the Digidesign Digizine. In the interview, Junkie XL talks about a range of things important to the production of dance music. One of these things is the importance of creating [...]
It’s always good to know that someone reads what you right, so today I thought I’d help out a reader with a Pro Tools question that they have.
Joe wrote:
I posted here for help with pro tools crashing and I was helped so I thought I’d try again. I don’t know if this is the right [...]
A Pro Tools crash is usually accompanied by an unhelpful error message. Luckily some of the errors or crashes aren’t as bad as they first seem and can be easily fixed. Here’s an example.
If Pro Tools crashes repeatedly every time you try to launch it, and keeps doing this even after restarting the computer, then [...]
You’ve installed Pro Tools and have it up and running. Now you’d like to optimize it’s performance, but where do you start?
Not surprisingly, the Pro Tools performance optimization settings are a good place to start. These can be found on the Playback Engine page. You can get there via the Setups drop down menu.
The [...]
Pro Tools 7 has introduced many new and many improved features this time around. Below pretty much encompasses everything you will see:
Region Looping– An easy, new way to repeat one or more audio/MIDI regions and Region Groups.
REX and ACID audio files can now be imported into Pro Tools 7.
Support for dragging audio, MIDI, REX and [...]
If you use Pro Tools, you’ve probably got used to some of the important keyboard shortcuts to make your job quicker and easier. Well here are a few less common short cuts that you may one day find a use for.
Mac
Create Memory Location - Enter (on numeric keypad)
Reset a Memory Location - Control-click on Memory [...]
If you’ve never used the automation function in ProTools before it can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, when you break it down into steps, it’s not all that bad. Once you’ve got a good handle on it, it can make your life a lot easier, not to mention open up some new creative opportunities.
Step [...]
In terms of setting up Rewire, the later versions don’t require much work on the users part at all. In basic terms, the
system configures itself when you launch both ProTools and Reason. All that really leave for you to do is select the routing of audio and MIDI. I’m currently running ProTools 6.7LE and [...]
Are you running ProTools using Mac OSX? Ever tried to bounce a track to disk only to receive the unhelpful message - “Could not bounce to disk. Neo Access error”? Well surprisingly, this error has nothing to do with the Matrix (note nerd reference there).
I’ve received the Neo Access error a number of times now, [...]
