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Session Folder - ✔✔The main folder of a project. How does the Session File save the project? - ✔✔It saves some items, but mostly serves as a roadmap, leading to files stored in subfolders. what are the five main subfolders in the Session Folder? - ✔✔waveCache, audio, clip, session file backup, video files. wavecache folder - ✔✔stores all of the waveform DISPLAY data for any audio used in the session. if this data is deleted, nothing is lost; the session will recreate it all. This file speeds Pro Tools file opening. Audio File - ✔✔This file saves every take made during the session. This is the only place these files exist; if deleted, they are gone forever.
Clip Groups file - ✔✔This folder stores any clip groups that are exported from the session Rendered File - ✔✔This file holds temporary files of the audio tracks when using Elastic Audio Processing How should you start Pro Tools? (8 steps) - ✔✔1) Make sure that everything, even computer is off. 2) turn on external hard drives. 3) turn on MIDI devices and peripherals. 4) turn on your A to D audio interface. 5) start your computer. 6) turn on your monitors. 7) make sure that your iLock is inserted. 8) Launch Pro Tools Host Based Processing - ✔✔When your PC does the processing for Pro Tools, as opposed to a inserted dedicated DSP card, or an an external device.
Why would you want to increase CPU Usage Limit? - ✔✔When using many plug- ins or when playing back a large session. How do you modify CPU Usage Limit or Hardware Buffer Size? - ✔✔Setup > Playback engine What is the difference between View menu and Window menu? - ✔✔Window Menu toggles entire windows open and closed, View Menu affects parts of these windows, or the way that these items are displayed. What is a clip, exactly? - ✔✔It is a pointer or controller that is the roadmap to a part of an audio or MIDI file. Clip menu - ✔✔Commands for modifying, arranging, grouping, looping and warping clips.
Event Menu - ✔✔Commands for modifying time, tempo, MIDI and audio events. Audio Suite Menu - ✔✔The source of plug-ins. Options Menu - ✔✔TOGGLES for recording, monitoring, playback, display, loop recording, pre-roll, post-roll, etc. Setup Menu - ✔✔Lets you configure various Pro Tools hardware and software parameters. What are the three primary Pro-Tools windows? - ✔✔Edit Window, Mix Window and Transport Window Edit Window - ✔✔A TIMELINE display of audio, MIDI, mixer and video used in a session. This data is organized into TRACKS.
What are Rulers used for? - ✔✔They provide measurement indicators to identify specific TIME locations in the session. What are the most useful rulers for audio without film? - ✔✔Time base Rulers: Bars/Beats, and possibly Min:Sec, Samples, and Markers, also Conductor Rulers: Tempo, Key Signatures, Chord Symbols What are the most useful rulers for audio with film? - ✔✔Time Code 1&2 and Feet + Frames and possibly Min:Sec or Markers. How can you chose or eliminate items from the Edit Window Toolbar? - ✔✔Press on the little triangle just below the red x used to close the Edit Window, then select from options. This is called the "EDIT SUB-MENU." How can you move items in the Edit Window Toolbar? - ✔✔Command Click on a non active part of the Toolbar near what you want to move, and then drag this item to the desired area of the toolbar.
What is the Mix Window? - ✔✔A window that looks like a physical audio mixer for recording and mixing. What does each TRACK display controls for in the Mix Window? - ✔✔Inserts, sends, input and output assignments, Automation Mode, panning and volume. Also record enable, solo, mute and selecting voice assignments and mix groups. Insert Selectors - ✔✔Used to add real-time effects processing using a plug-in. Send Selectors - ✔✔Rout a track's Signal to an available bus path or output path Volume Fader - ✔✔Controls volume of output, not input! Input must be controlled at source.
MIDI Editor Window - ✔✔An additional editing Window for detailed MIDI editing. Score Editor Window - ✔✔An additional editing Window for Viewing, editing, arranging MIDI data as musical notation Window Management (four types) - ✔✔Tile, Tile Vertical, tile Horizontal, Cascade Zoomer Tool - ✔✔Used to zoom in and out within a track. Select one of the two Zoomer Tools and then click on the desired point of the track. OR drag with the Zoomer Tool over the area you want zoomed in. Normal Zoom Mode - ✔✔The tool remains selected after being used Single Zoom Mode - ✔✔The preselected tool is automatically reselected after the Zoomer tool is used.
Marquee Zooming - ✔✔Command drag with the Zoom Tool to see a waveform zoom horizontally and vertically. To Zoom out, hold Option while you click with the Zoomer Tool. Option Clicking - ✔✔With trim tool: reverses trim direction, With pencil tool changes pencil to eraser Double click on the Zoomer Tool - ✔✔Fills the Edit Window with the longest visible track in the session Trim Tool - ✔✔The tool to trim excess audio, MIDI or video from a clip. The trim tool button also provides access to? - ✔✔the Time Compression/Expansion Trim Tool, the Loop Trim Tool and the Scrub Trim Tool.
Pencil Tool - ✔✔Destructively redraws waveform data. Used on audio to remove pops. Used creatively on MIDI to edit and create. Pencil Tool shapes (5) - ✔✔Freehand, Line, triangle, square and random Line pencil tool is commonly used for: - ✔✔volume Triangle pencil tool is commonly used for: - ✔✔Pan Freehand pencil tool is commonly used for: - ✔✔Pitch bend Square or Random pencil tools are commonly used for: - ✔✔Velocity
Smart Tool - ✔✔Provides instant access to the Selector, Grabber and Trim Tools, and to provide fades and cross-fades. To activate the Smart Tool: - ✔✔Click on one of the member tools (Selector, Grabber or Trim Tool) and shift click another. To use the Smart tool as a Selector: - ✔✔Position it in the middle of a clip in the top half To use the Smart Tool as a Grabber: - ✔✔Position it in the middle of a clip in the bottom half To use the Smart Tool as a Trim Tool: - ✔✔Position it near a clips beginning or end.
Grid Mode - ✔✔Snaps clips to nearest time increment using the Currently selected Time Scale and Grid Size. Use the Grid mode to align clips with precise time intervals. Main Time Scale - ✔✔Determines the timebase units in the Main Time Counter, the Location Indicator in the Transport Window, the Selection star tend and length values, the pre and post-roll amounts and the initial Grid and Nudge Values. What can the Main Time Scale be set in? - ✔✔Min:Sec, Beats/Measures, Time Code 1&2, Feet + Frames, or Samples How do you set the desired timebase of the Main Counter? - ✔✔View>Main Counter, OR select the timebase from the Main Time Scale pop-up menu OR click on the name in a ruler.
Sub Time Scale - ✔✔A second time scale, perhaps set to Samples as a convenient second way to find time locations. How do you display the Sub Time Scale? - ✔✔In the Edit window, select the little triangle below the red x. (The EDIT SUB MENU) What are the Timebase Rulers? - ✔✔Bars/Beats, Min:Sec, Samples, Time Code 1&2, and Feet +Frames What is another industry name for Timebase Rulers? - ✔✔Timelines What are the Conductor Rulers? - ✔✔Markers, Tempo, Meter, Key and Chords How can you display/ remove rulers? - ✔✔View> rulers (toggle) What is a shortcut to hide views? - ✔✔Option Click the nameplate.
can configure Pro tools to add a click track automatically: choose Setup> Preferences Countoff Controls - ✔✔Pro Tools counts off before recording. How to change Countoff settings - ✔✔Setup>Clock/Countoff OR double-click the the Countoff field in the Edit or Transport Window Countoff Tip - ✔✔Numerical Keyboard (8) enables countoff, to set this up, choose Setup>Preferences>Operation select numeric keyboard in Transport Section. MIDI Merge Mode - ✔✔When selected, recording will merge with track, creating a new track with both together. This is called overdubbing.
MIDI Merge tip - ✔✔Numerical Keyboard (9) enables MIDI Merge, to set this up, choose Setup>Preferences>Operation select numeric keyboard in Transport Section. Tempo Ruler Enable - ✔✔When Selected Tempo Ruler will determine the tempo of the recording, when deselected Pro Tools switches to Manual Tempo Mode, this allows you to select the tempo for the recording by typing directly into the tempo field. Meter Display - ✔✔Displays the meter at the play location. Double clicking opens the Meter Change Dialog Box. Tempo Field - ✔✔Displays the sessions current tempo based on the play location. In Manual Tempo Mode you can enter a tempo in this field.
