Pro Tools Class | New York
Getting Started
- →Software installation, toolkits, iLoks & licenses
- →Avid hardware and other compatible interfaces
- →Launching Pro Tools & session start up
- →File format, bit depth & sampling rate tips
- →Pro Tools file structure and file management
- →Edit & mix window introductions
Advanced Editing Techniques
- →Clip based gain and automation
- →Pencil tool, TCE (Time Compression Expansion Tool)
- →Strip silence and tab to transient and consolidating clips
- →Repeating and duplicating clips
- →MONO, stereo and panning
- →Overview and automation for plugins and effects
Workflow
- →Edit window orientation
- →Importing audio, creating and track arranging tips
- →Edit modes - all about Slip, Spot, Shuffle & Grid
- →Multi-tool (Trimmer, Grabber, Selector)
- →Transport window - tempo, pre & post roll count off
- →Grid and nudge values
Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design
- →Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
- →Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
- →The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
- →EQ and compression for recording
- →Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
- →Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
- →Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
- →Recording specific aspects of Ableton
- →Compiling audio takes
Samples & Loops
- →Creating drum loops in Pro Tools
- →MIDI controllers and editing MIDI
- →Printing software Instruments
- →Master Fader, VU and peak meters
- →Beat Detective - time correct live drums
- →Exporting audio, bouncing mixes and dithering
The Final Product
- →Preparing your session for mix-down
- →Consolidating audio and cleaning up your session
- →Exporting MP3s and Editing METADATA
- →Mixing techniques for post production, including film & TV
- →Key command shortcuts' review
- →0dbfs and digital clipping
In our students' words.
“The course is very friendly and engaging. Any and all questions will be asked with no hesitation or frustration, and it helps everyone else in the class that might have the same question in mind.”
Ryan Conway
Some Instructors
Before you enrol.
Yes - the same course runs as 20 hours of one-to-one training if you would rather work at your own pace.
Yes - on successful completion you receive an industry-recognized certificate.
36 hours in a group, or 20 hours if you take it one-to-one.
$1,499 plus a $100 registration fee if booked 14 days ahead, or $1,799 plus $200 otherwise.
Yes - Avid hardware and other compatible interfaces are part of the course.
Yes - every session runs in person in New York or Live Online, and you can join the same class either way.
No. It covers the production and engineering skills from the ground up, whatever genre you work in.
Ready when you are.
InquireApple Logic Pro with Avid Pro Tools HD DAW Systems
Apple Logic Pro with Avid Pro Tools HD DAW Systems: I heard here that Apple (Logic) are to stop support for Avid's Digidesign products (Pro Tools). This is a massive kick in the teeth for Avid who I here are struggling a bit at the moment. Neither rumor surprises me; I cashed in my (digital signal p
Read →Approaches to electronic music production (EMP) in Max/MSP
New Approaches: Max/MSP Digital Synthesiser Building in electronic music production (EMP) by our course designer and instructor Steve Powell: 11/1/11 Everyone has different ways of writing music whether you sit down with your guitar, play and hum until you get something you like, or draw out some be
Read →Which DAW is best? – Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton or Cubase?
- Al Riley My first multitrack workstation was my 4-track Portastudio (not a DAW, an AAW I suppose?), which gave me the novel luxury of changing the volume and panning different instruments after recording them! I could even use insert effects (a guitar pedal) and punch-in recording to fix questiona
Read →Logic Pro training: Zoom tool and using loops with regions
Logic Pro training: Zoom tool and using loops with regions: I made a video at my studio about zooming for Logic Pro Training. I don't know how I managed to talk about zooming for over 6 1/2 minutes but I love it. The first 4 minutes can get a bit tedious if you're familiar with all the weird and won
Read →Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit
Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit by Stephen Powell I had a conversation recently with a guy who described himself as a “glitch-dubstep-lo-fi composer” He went on to describe a couple of his tracks which turned out to be pretty much what you might expect from such a descrip
Read →Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction software
Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction software: Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction music studio software. But what's it for? 10 years ago the standard way to correct pitch in vocals was Autotune. To correct bits manually, you'd have to use graphical mode. It was very fiddly, you'd have to load
Read →