I've been through many tutorials and you are the best out there for clear instruction and training. Thanks so much for all your work on these tutorials!
I really liked the way you presented this. Very straight forward, as opposed to, "Hey all you rock-n-rollers out there. Uhh, how's it hangin? Uhh, I don't do this too often, so bear with me." I can't stand that kind of crap.
Same thing is happening to me. I have a MIDI controller and i can hear all 4 channels depending on which i arm for recording. But when I arm PT and hit play the record light goes off and no notes are recorded on the midi track
Around 6:10 you record and enable the drum track. Your mouse does not move from the record enable button. When you hit the instrument controller keyboard the drums start playing and recording. However I don't see your mouse move to the record button or the play button. When I hit the instrument controller keyboard a drum sound plays but no recording happens. I have to manually hit the record and play buttons as well as select loop because your play button loops. At this point I'm lost as I'm not getting the same result. Any comments?
I use Pro Tools 12 on a Mac, and pressing the 3 button on the numeric pad (to the right of the keyboard) is a shortcut for "begin recording" on a track that has been record-enabled (red flashing light). To change the loop / no loop properties of the play button just right-click on it and you'll see the options, or press 4 on the numeric keypad to cycle through the options. Hope that helps!
Thanks Lizzie. I appreciate you giving it a shot. I was actually interested in what the presenter did rather than looking for workarounds. It has more to do with the fact that I've learned the long hard way not to pay any attention to tutorials I cannot duplicate. The reason is that once you lose track of what the other guy did it draws every error or uncertain result after that one into question which greatly hinders the speed at which you can learn. Therefore if I can't solve a mismatch in actions/results I quit that tutorial. Unresolved steps often lead to doubts that should have been resolved before moving on. Continuing under those conditions almost always leads to great problems. Once the chain of events breaks down the probability of a successful training result drops rapidly and dramatically. Once the student loses faith in the process, their sense of knowing what they are doing, diminishes also.
You seem to be suggesting that unless every single action performed is spelled out for you in full every time, you don't trust the tutorial and look for another one. Really? Surely not. Ok the teacher didn't talk you through every single action ("left click on the Play button" etc.) because that would be very repetitive and therefore distracting from the main theme of the tutorial, and altogether unnecessary. Students watching this know about pressing play and record buttons. They know nothing happens unless they interact with the program, they don't need to be told how every time. There is a limited number of ways in which the program can be put into 'play' mode or 'record' mode. You sounded like you were not aware of the keyboard shortcuts, which is why I tried to help you. The teacher could also have been using the free 'Pro Tools | Control' app on the iPad remotely to control his machine, he didn't say. If I may be so bold, I think you might be falling into the trap of not being able to see the wood for the trees! I would suggest concentrating more on the ways of achieving a specific outcome, rather than getting rather lost in the low-level mechanics of the process. I've taught students for many years, and although there is a veritable plethora of instructional video material available across the Internet for all things technical, few come close to this series for choice and balance of content, presentational style and sheer educational value. Best wishes, Liz.
Hey! Been wondering the same question myself for quite some time now (as it can be very handy when it comes to print the different elements of virtual drums in XPand for instance). One solution is to commit each MIDI track: Once you recorded every MIDI instrument (Kick, Snare, Hat, etc) on a different MIDI track, right-click on each MIDI track and select "Commit" . This turns it into audio. So it's not "at once" but since you can render every track offline, it's quite fast. Hope this helps.
