Throughout this document I’ll use DAW specific terms when discussing one or the other. Sometimes it is less obvious, for instance Logic’s Bounce In Place functionality can be achieved using Consolidate, Commit or Bounce Track, with slight differences between when and why you might used each of these. Sometimes this is obvious, for instance Key Commands in Logic are Keyboard Shortcuts in Pro Tools. Whilst a lot of the same tasks can be achieved in each DAW they are often achieved in different ways and the manuals for each sometimes name them differently. Part of learning the Avid way is getting used to their terminology. I don’t profess to be a Pro Tools wizard but after 15 years of using it I’ve picked up a few things and here is an overview for anyone who is familiar with Logic but wants to make the jump to the Avid way of doing things. Faced with the choice between selling my HD system and going native or learning Pro Tools software I did the latter. This was years before Universal Audio Apollos came along and I needed the low latency of a DSP-based system to track bands but I didn’t know the first thing about Pro Tools software. I think it's important to revisit the basics and explore some of the dustier corners of your Pro Tools knowledge, it's interesting to see where it can lead you.As a long time Logic user when Apple discontinued the Emagic System Bridge, a nifty piece of software which allowed Pro Tools HD hardware to be used with Logic as the software front end, some years ago I was a bit stuck. Play with these using Parabolic and S-Curve and you'll see the difference. Tempo events will be created to approximate the line created according to the tempo edit density setting, immediately after creating your tempo change you will enter Curve Adjustment Mode - indicated by a blue line with handles. Expand the Tempo Ruler using the disclosure triangle and draw in some tempo information using one of these tools. If you want to create tempo changes which ease in and out then using these two tools will help. The Tempo Ruler is only active when enabled in the transport bar (which may or may not be visible - go to the window menu). So what about these mysterious Parabolic and S-Curve Tools which never seem to be available? Well they are for use in the Tempo Ruler. In defence of Autopanner plug-ins, I've always missed not having a sinusoidal shape available, probably because there are parabolic and S curves available (which are nearly sinusoidal) but they can't be used for automation. The width is dictated by how far up or down you drag and the speed of the panning follows the current Grid setting. Just open a pan automation playlist, click and hold on the pencil tool, select the triangle option and draw in some panning. The effect is so easy to achieve using the Pencil Tool. I've never seen the point of autopanner plug-ins. To remind yourself of the other actions in Pro Tools which are destructive look at this article on exactly that. This has its limitations but to fix single clicks and discontinuities it is perfect. A word of caution, drawing the waveform with the pencil tools is one of the few destructive actions you can make in Pro Tools so if you go further than your undo levels you are stuck. I enjoyed explaining that the Edit window is Pro Tools' sample editor.įor anyone who has never done this, If you zoom in to an audio clip far enough, the pencil tool will become available and you can draw directly into the waveform. I remember some years ago a Cubase-using friend asked me how you can fix a click in Pro Tools when it doesn't have a sample editor. Like I said, this was the use which got me thinking in the first place. Here are five: Fixing Clicks With The Pencil Tool Why not do what I did before I had RX and use the Pencil Tool? That got me thinking about the Pencil Tool and although I sometimes go for days without using it, there are so many different ways it can be incredibly useful. It was just as I was about to send it to RX that it occurred to me that I was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It was a single click on a low-frequency sound - it stuck out like a sore thumb. A recent example was when I needed to remove a click on a sound I was using. I’m amazed how much I forget the basics until I need them. That said, it’s important to remind yourself of the basics. Clever new tools and toys are fun and help keep all of us enthused, hopefully inspired and at the very least interested in the tools we use every day.
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