Organizing Your Session

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Из курса от партнера Berklee College of Music

Pro Tools Basics

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Berklee College of Music

Pro Tools Basics

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Курс 3 из 4 — Specialization Music Production

Producing music is an incredibly creative process, and knowing the tools of the trade is essential in order to transmit the musical ideas in your head into the DAW in a creative and uninhibited way. Whether you have used a computer to create music before, or you have been curious about production for years, this 4-week course will give you an introductory look into the world of Avid Pro Tools and Pro Tools First.

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Diving In

In this first lesson, we will roll up our sleeves and dive into the Pro Tools interface. We'll learn how to set up a session and how to add instrument and audio tracks. We'll also learn how to save and bounce our work while keeping everything organized.

The Pro Tools Interface7:20

MIDI and Software Instrument Tracks7:10

Audio Tracks5:57

Working From Templates7:13

Organizing Your Session3:07

Bouncing Your Session4:58

Saving Your Session2:29

Познакомьтесь с преподавателями

Chrissy Tignor-Fisher
Assistant Professor
Contemporary Writing and Production

[MUSIC]

Once you have created a full production, you'll want to convert it into MP3s so

you can share it all around.

What I have here as an example, is a finished production both with

audio tracks and with software instrument tracks.

You can zoom in and

out on your tracks to get a closer look in the bottom right hand corner of Protools.

There's a little plus and minus to make the tracks bigger, up and

down, or expand your regions left to right.

If you hit Command =, you can see your mix window.

And don't worry if all of this looks like there's a lot of stuff going on.

This is just an example of what a finished production could look like.

You probably notice that I have different colors for each of my instruments.

And I'm going to show you how to do that now.

And the whole idea about color coding things is really just to keep organized

when you're going through the session and also keeping like instruments together.

So for example, all of my percussive instruments are in blue.

And we can change the color of multiple different types of instruments

by highlighting them and then changing the color to whatever we please.

To do that, I click one of these instruments, hold the Shift key, and

then click another one in line with it.

And this works really well if you have all of your individual tracks that are of

the same type.

So, all your guitars, or all your pianos, all your drums,

all next to each other, to use the shortcut.

If you want to select tracks that aren't necessarily in sequential order,

you'll hold down the Command key as you click

to be able to select whatever tracks you want to color code or move around.

Because I set up my session with all of my rhythmic elements in a row,

I've clicked on the kick, held the Shift key and

then clicked on this blip sound to select them all.

To change the color of all of them at the bottom,

in your mix window, you're going to see a darker little color bar.

And if you haven't changed color already,

this will either be that kind of burnt yellow orange color for

a software instrument track or it's going to be blue for an audio track.

If you click on this, you're going to open up this color pallet, and

you can change each one of these to whatever color that you want.

If you want all of your tracks to be really vibrant and

full of color like mine, you can click on this little rainbow button.

[MUSIC]

And increase the saturation and the brightness of each one of your tracks.

Whatever color you use makes no difference, but

just make sure that you can easily find what you're looking for and

be able to group certain tracks together.

Because, when it comes to the mixing stage or

if someone else ever looks at your session, it'll be really easy for

them to find specific sounds to continue working with them.

[MUSIC]

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