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Why Pro Tools HD

garethstuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:44:21 +0000

A little stimulating background reading on differences between LE and HD (apart from the price tag)

Parabolic tempo change/flange effect

garethstuart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:33:36 +0000

Okay, I’ve figured out exactly what you need to do to re-create a smooth flanging effect as in the guide mix and it’s pretty simple.

1. create your D cr vari ‘loop’ from bars 47 to 63 as instructed in stage 24 on the “remix detail” pdf:

2. copy those 16 bars onto a newly created stereo audio track (”D reg”)

NB: If you playback from bar 47 now, before you implement the tempo change, the sound should be constant and smooth with no phase/flange effects

3. change the tempo between 47 to 63 as instructed in the latest blog update, using a parabolic curve and you’ll hear a smooth flanging effect (descending harmonic).

NB: the copy and paste is critical. If you try to place separately edited regions of D together, you’ll end up with a ‘lumpy’ effect with ’stepped’ harmonic changes on all the edit points.

Bouncing, Maxim and dither

garethstuart — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:47:55 +0000

Before bouncing assessment 1 (to a 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo interleaved wav) please remember to re-activate maxim (inserted on your master fader), and select dither to 16 bit:

and as a little bedtime reading, here’s a little info on dither (from the Pro Tools reference guide, page 866:

and for more specific detail on maxim, including dither options available, here’s a pdf:

maxim

Reading Week – classes as usual + important tempo change info for assessment 1

garethstuart — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:01:20 +0000

I’ll definitely be in college next Tuesday and Wednesday, 3rd and 4th of November, to continue with work on assessment 2.

Now, in looking at work uploaded to my iDisk site by Yael, I’ve discovered why your tempo curve/flange effect from bars 47 – 63 won’t work properly.

The bpm shift needed is one of .5640 rather than .024 and it needs to be a parabolic curve with density set at 50ms as follows:

apologies for that, but you should be able to correct this very quickly to produce a much better result.

This next update is thanks to Kevin – the placement of C cr rhyt should be at 5|1|000, 6|1|000, 7|1|000 and 9|3|000, not 9|1|000 as instructed in the remix pdf. Again this should only take a second to adjust.

Logic Pro 9 – Varispeed

garethstuart — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:31:53 +0000

Following a chat with Alex this morning – here’s a link to an Apple demo video on a new feature in Logic 9

http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/how-to/#logicpro-varispeed

Of course I think it’s easier to execute in Pro Tools……no surprises there then!!

Email subscription

garethstuart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:40:40 +0000

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A little help for you with Pro Tools shortcuts

garethstuart — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:41:01 +0000

I’m so feeling your appreciation……now stop complaining and learn these shortcuts.

…and while this post ’sinks’, in the fullness of time, look at Pages and feel relieved that your Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts will always be at hand.

Assessment 1 – Remix DEADLINE

garethstuart — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:58:30 +0000

Please submit your Pro Tools projects, including a 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo interleaved bounce, to the “depot” by Monday, November 9th (2009).

05 blogs of old

garethstuart — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:24:05 +0000

The contents of this category ie. blogs, has been moved to its rightful home “Blogroll”.

Have a look at previos students write ups for assessments 3, 4 and 5 to get an idea of what I’ll be looking for.

Troubleshooting – upload solution

garethstuart — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:08:51 +0000

If you’re having problems with assessment one – remix and need help/feedback, email me with the specific problem/s and upload your Pro Tools project, minus the original “bombat” split stereo files, to my iDisk public folder:

http://public.me.com/zigzagmusic

password: student

(the arrow in the white circle is the upload command, once the public folder has opened)

NB: compress your project before uploading

Following the picture above will generate “Archive.zip”, please rename with “your name.zip” and upload.