Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 About Pro Tools -- What Is Pro Tools?! -- How It Works -- Digital Audio Data Represents Audio Waveforms -- MIDI Data Represents Performance Events and Controller Data -- Multitrack Recording, Mixdown, and Mastering: An Overview -- Digital Audio Basics -- Introduction: Analog Recording -- Sampling Theory Overview -- MIDI Basics -- MIDI File Formats -- Software-Based Virtual Instruments for MIDI -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Pro Tools Terms and Concepts -- Pro Tools Data and Files -- Session -- Audio Files -- Clips -- Tracks -- Playlists -- How Pro Tools Handles Audio -- Voice, Track Prior -- Channels -- Virtual Tracks versus Physical Tracks -- Destructive versus Non-Destructive Editing -- Fades and Crossfades -- Mixing Concepts -- Grouping Tracks -- Busses -- Sends -- Aux Input Tracks -- Instrument Tracks -- Master Fader Tracks -- Plug-Ins -- Inserts -- Bouncing to Disk -- Avid Technology -- DAE (Digidesign Audio Engine) -- TDM (Time-Division Multiplexing) -- ReWire (and the ReWire Plug-In) -- Elastic Audio -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Your System Configuration -- Basic Components -- Computer -- Monitor Screen(s) -- Hard Drive(s) -- Peripheral Equipment -- Pro Tools Hardware Configurations -- Pro Tools Mbox Family -- Eleven Rack (USB) -- M-Audio Interfaces -- Pro Tools

Inserting Plug-In Effects -- Mixdown -- Mixing -- Bounce to Disk -- Summary -- Chapter 5 The Transport Window -- Transport Buttons -- Play/Stop -- Rewind/Fast Forward -- Return to Zero/Go to End -- Online -- Record -- Transport Window Fields -- Main/Sub Indicators for Current Location -- Play Selection: Start/End/Length Fields -- Pre-Roll/Post-Roll -- Transport Master -- Record Enable Status/Input Status -- MIDI Transport Controls -- Wait for Note -- Metronome -- Count Off -- MIDI Merge -- Conductor Track (Tempo Ruler) -- Meter -- Tempo -- Summary -- Chapter 6 The Edit Window -- Edit Tools: The Zoomer, Trim, Selector, Grabber, Smart Tool, Scrubber, and Pencil -- Zoomer -- Trim Tool -- Selector -- Grabber -- Smart Tool -- Scrubber -- Pencil -- Edit Modes: Slip, Shuffle, Grid, and Spot -- Slip -- Shuffle -- Grid -- Spot -- Zoom Controls and Zoom Preset Buttons -- Zoom Toggle Icon -- Event Edit Area (Counters and Edit Selection Fields) -- Edit Selection Fields (Start/End/Length) -- Main/Sub Counters -- MIDI Note Attributes -- Edit Window Transport Buttons -- Edit Window Option Buttons and Functions -- Tab to Transients -- Link Timeline and Edit Selection -- Link Track and Edit Selection -- Mirrored MIDI Editing -- Insertion Follows Playback -- Automation Follows Edit -- Other Edit Window Controls and Functions -- Grid Display and Grid Value Display -- Nudge Value Display -- Cursor Location/Cursor Value -- Ruler View Selector -- Edit Window View Selector -- Linearity Display Mode Selector -- Commands Focus -- Clip List -- Using the Clip List Pop-Up Menu -- Edit Group List -- Track List -- Track View Selector for Track Data -- Audio -- Aux Input -- VCA Master (Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit Only) -- Master Fader -- MIDI and Instrument Tracks -- Track Height Selector -- Playlist Selector (Audio and MIDI Tracks).

Samples/Ticks Timebase Selector -- Track Color Indicatorss -- Timeline Display: Timebase Rulers and Marker Memory Locations -- Markers Ruler -- Tempo and Meter Rulers -- Key Signature Ruler -- Managing Multiple Takes -- Assembling a Comp Track -- Real-Time Properties on MIDI/Instrument Tracks -- More about Automation in Pro Tools -- Automation Modes -- Automation Window -- Automation and Controller Lanes -- Working with Clip-Based Gain -- Using the Tempo Editor -- Summary -- Chapter 7 The Mix Window -- Mixer Strip Elements -- Audio Tracks -- Aux Inputs -- Master Faders -- MIDI Tracks -- Instrument Tracks -- Mix Window View Selector -- Output Windows -- Safe Button for Automation -- Linked Panners (Multichannel and Stereo Tracks Only) -- Inverse Pan (Multichannel and Stereo Tracks Only) -- Track List -- Mix Group List -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Menu Selections: Highlights -- File Menu -- Save, Save As, Save Copy In, Revert to Saved -- Bounce to Disk -- Bounce to QuickTime Movie -- Import Submenu -- Edit Menu -- Cut/Copy/Paste/Clear Special -- Selection Submenu -- Duplicate, Repeat -- Shift -- Trim Clip Submenu -- Separate Clip Submenu/Heal Separation -- Strip Silence -- Consolidate -- Mute/Unmute -- Fades -- View Menu -- Narrow Mix Window -- Mix Window Views and Edit Window Views -- Rulers Submenu -- Other Displays -- Clip Submenu -- Track Number -- Transport Submenu -- Main Counter Submenu -- Track Menu -- New (Tracks) -- Group (Tracks) -- Split into Mono -- Make Inactive/Active -- Delete -- Write MIDI Real-Time Properties -- Input Only/Auto Input Monitoring -- Scroll to Track -- Clear All Clip Indicators -- Create Click Track -- Clip Menu -- Edit Lock/Unlock -- Time Lock/Unlock -- Send to Back/Bring to Front -- Group/Ungroup/Ungroup All/Regroup -- Loop/Unloop -- Capture -- Identify Sync Point/Remove Sync Point -- Quantize to Grid -- Clip Gain.

Elastic Properties -- Conform to Tempo -- Remove Warp/Remove Pitch Shift -- Event Menu -- Time Operations Submenu: Change Meter, Insert Time, Cut Time, Move Song Start -- Tempo Operations Submenu -- Event Operations Submenu -- MIDI Track Offsets -- MIDI Real-Time Properties -- Remove Duplicate Notes -- Add Key Change -- Beat Detective -- Identify Beat -- Renumber Bars -- All MIDI Notes Off: The Panic Button! -- AudioSuite Menu -- Options Menu -- Destructive Record -- Loop Record -- QuickPunch -- TrackPunch (Systems with Pro Tools HD or Complete Production Toolkit Only) -- Video Track Online -- Video Out FireWire (Mac Only) -- Scrub in Video Window -- Loop Playback -- Link Timeline and Edit Selection -- Link Track and Edit Selection -- Mirror MIDI Editing -- Automation Follows Edit -- Click/Countoff -- MIDI Thru -- Auto-Spot Clips -- Pre-Fader Metering -- Delay Compensation -- Low-Latency Monitoring -- Setup Menu -- Hardware (Setup) -- Playback Engine -- Disk Allocation -- Peripherals -- I/O -- Session -- Setup > MIDI Submenu -- Connect to Sound Could -- Click/Countoff -- Preferences -- Window Menu -- Window Configurations -- MIDI Editor -- Score Editor -- MIDI Event List -- Task Manager Window -- Workspace Browser Window -- Project Browser Window -- Catalog Browser Window -- Big Counter -- Automation Enable -- Memory Locations -- Video Universe -- Color Palette -- Undo History -- Disk Space and System Usage -- Marketplace -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Plug-Ins, Inserts, and Sends -- Signal Routing in Pro Tools -- Input Channels -- Audio and Aux Input Tracks -- Instrument Tracks -- Inserts -- Sends -- Busses -- Master Faders -- Output Channels -- Plug-In Architectures -- AudioSuite -- RTAS (Real-Time AudioSuite) and AAX Native -- TDM (Time-Division Multiplexing), TDM II -- AAX DSP Plug-Ins -- Wrapped Plug-Ins -- Plug-In Effects.

About Digital Signal Processing (DSP) -- Categories of Audio Effects -- Plug-Ins Included with Pro Tools -- Third-Party Plug-In Developers -- Tips for Using Sends (to External I/O, PT Busses, and Aux Inputs) -- ReWire -- Getting the Most Out of Available DSP -- Where to Place Plug-Ins -- AudioSuite Effects versus Real-Time Plug-Ins -- Bouncing Effects into Tracks and Submixes -- Summary -- Chapter 10 MIDI -- A Technical Overview of MIDI -- MIDI Data -- MIDI Interface Options -- Digidesign MIDI I/O -- MIDI Setup -- Macintosh (Audio MIDI Setup) -- Windows -- External MIDI Devices -- Virtual Instruments -- Why Use Virtual Instruments Instead of External MIDI Gear? -- Virtual Instrument Programs (ReWire) -- Virtual Instrument Plug-Ins for Pro Tools -- Recording into MIDI and Instrument Tracks -- MIDI Recording Modes -- Editing MIDI and Instrument Tracks in the Edit Window -- The MIDI Editor Window -- The Event Menu -- Time Operations -- Tempo Operations -- Event Operations -- MIDI Real-Time Properties -- Remove Duplicate Notes -- Beat Detective -- Identify Beat -- Renumber Bars -- All MIDI Notes Off -- Other Commands Relating to MIDI -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Synchronization -- Synchronization Defined -- SMPTE Time Code -- Synchronization Example with an External Video Deck -- SMPTE Time Code Formats: LTC, VITC, and MTC -- Frame Rates (30/2997 Drop/Non-Drop, 25, 24 Frames per Second) -- MIDI Time Code (MTC) -- SMPTE Peripherals -- SMPTE/MIDI Interface (Trigger Sync) -- SMPTE/MIDI Interface Plus Separate Hardware Clock -- Synchronizers That Include Reference Sync -- Types of Synchronization -- Trigger Sync -- Continuous Resync -- Reference Sync -- Using QuickTime, Other Digital Video File Formats -- Summary -- Chapter 12 The Pro Tools Groove -- Combining MIDI and Audio -- Using "Assembled" Percussion Parts and Clip Groups -- Looping Audio Clips.

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