Hey guys, you'll notice that there are links in the description to related videos such as EQ, Reverb and Exporting Audio. Let me know what other Pro Tools topics you'd like me to make videos on.
@@lavderim77 Unfortunately I haven't done a full video on mixing yet. I'll get right on it. For now, there's a few links in the description on how to use Reverb and EQ.
I came to this video with ZERO recording, MIDI, or Pro Tools knowledge, and came away with a comfortable understanding of all three. Excellent instruction at a perfect pace...not too fast and overwhelming, and no too slow and boring. You have the skills of an excellent teacher (not to mention musician). Thank you very much for making this video.
Thank you for getting my feet wet with something that i really like to become a serious hobby. If you or anyone else have any other tutorials, videos, reading material or tips I would be very appreciative for your time. What my end hope is to learn to make a few tracks for local hiphop ap artists.
I am new in Pro Tools, I used, Samplitude sequoia, Studio one, Cubese and finally I decided to learn Pro Tools. I founded those tutorials very useful for me and I just want to say " Thank you " for your videos.
Your A Legend Mate. I had no idea what to do when I got the Software, but thanks too you, I feel very motivated and creative now. Thumbs up too ya. I'll take lessons from you any day.
Thank you so much! I'm an engineering student and just got my pro tools package. I'm more of a visual learner than a reader so this was much more helpful to me than trying to read the manual. Keep up the good work! :'D
I loved this video! It was great I am a beginner and know nothing and this was a tremendous help. Thanks! Simple instructions Basic terminology Steady pace Didn't skip any steps assuming anyone already knew the inside info.
Thanks man, very instructive video. I have been playing bass for around 12 years but never put myself to learn something about recording because it just seemed too complicated lol. Thanks for making it easier
I had all ready and connected on my C600 but was procrastinating to start, feeling the learning curve was big, this video got me started, i know its merely the start.. but getting started is a great way to move forward, thanks!
I found this tutorial interesting and very helpful as im a complete novice with Pro Tools. The video was informative and you took the lesson at a good steady pace, enabling me to follow you easily. Thanks
I didn't know anything about Pro tools until I watched the video. Thanks! For a 100% beginner, I learned tons! Great video, you didn't jump around so fast I could see what you were doing and it was well organized for a 100% beginner. There is hope after all! Thanks so much!
You are the best online teacher I have ever seen,you keep it simple in laymans terms for a senior citizen like me!....however I do need help with setting up my keyboard and Mbox,could you please show how to set up everything...thank you.
DAM IT … I LOVE YOU!!! (Yes, I'm shouting it really loud, coz you made my day!) Seriously though, THANK YOU!!! Way to go, making it soooo easy to follow! RU-vid needs a +1M likes button, coz 1 like just doesn't cover my gratitude!
Great video. Im new to protools and have been looking around at the various videos.You are very easy to understand and follow. Please keep up the good work and make some more. Great talent as well. Thank You!
thank u.... been using a different DAW & been trying 2 learn pro-tools 4 a while!!! thanks 4 the simplified explanation!!! I can finally ditch the dunce cap!!! lol
Thank you for this! This format is excellent! Your voice is nice to listen to, you're very knowledgeable and you explain things quite well! I hope you make more videos at some point!
Really good clear video. I'd love to see more, eg. Vocals recording. Compression etc. this gets past all the frills and straight to the action, which is how I like my software! Moving from cool edit to protools myself and just needed some encouragement to get In there and try! (have fun - good advice!)
playing a keyboard like that takes your entire freaking life so ill just stick to my addictive drums software and guitar and midi guitar for piano parts and of course quantize when im done..lol.nice vid
It doesn't take as long as you think, and there's nothing to lose by trying. However, you could always program in just the kick and snare live and then program the hats and everything later with a mouse?
In case you're interested in learning to drum on a MIDI keyboard, I've made a video for this topic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5b4na4rdFbY.html
Great Video! I wished I had discovered this when I first started with PT. I would have been jamming my first night.I spent two or three nights trying to input and output midi from from my keyboard. Couldn't hear a thing. I didn't use the instrument track like you did while setting it up. I just went to the midi track which needed an aux track. Avid should use this video in a getting started package when buying it. To not hear music from the start was frustrating to say the least-Gr8t 4 newbies
Thank you so much for the video. It makes me easy to grasp the idea how to use Pro-tools software. I appreciated you are a good teacher for a student like me who is trying to learn how to record in the home studio set up. Keep up the good work..
Thanks for making this video dude, I learned a lot! Love to see more about recording instruments, using the selector to move tracks, how to cut tracks into multiple pieces...etc. With a live instrument! Mastering info maybe? I'm diggin your style! Subscribed and hoping for more!
Nice simple video matey! Nice one. I'm actually a Cubase user for many years and been noseying around Pro Tools before I upgrade my studio... tripped over your video when looking at the AVID videos... I admire your live kit performance! ;-)
I record my music using a microphone plugged into a VHS player onto a blank tape. I output the music from the VHS player's RCA output into my computer's mic input on it's sound card using an RCA to 1/8" adapter. I open up "sound recorder" in my Windows 95 PC. Here's it's specs: 133 MHz Pentium (1) processor 8 megabytes of RAM 256 kilobyte video RAM 3 gigabyte hard drive the sound quality is ~*SuPeRb*~ it sounds better than a high end pro tools interface
Elly, that's an interesting signal flow. I've heard that VHS tape can be used for audio, the audio tracks on video are particularly high quality. I've also heard that VHS tapes were used on some early multi-track recorders too. If you like the sound of VHS tape, you should be able to improve it by running into a professional audio interface rather than the sound card on your computer. The sound cards from the "Windows 95" era were pretty terrible. You're probably not capturing the full glory of your VHS tape sound.
Those came free with Pro Tools. If you have Pro Tools but it didn't come with those plugins, it's possible you can download them for free from the Avid webpage.
Yeah, there are certainly arguments for either mono or stereo, though stereo is the standard nowadays. MONO: When you record everything (including drums) in mono, the benefit is that the recording will translate well across almost all sounds systems and the balance of instruments will stay more or less the same. However, it's harder to get separation because everything is panned to the centre. You have to be very clever with mixing and EQ to get an uncluttered mix. Also, the mix won't sound three dimensional. STEREO: When you record everything (including drums) in stereo, the benefit is that the recording will sound three dimensional. With headphones on you'll be able to clearly hear everything panned to it's own location on the stereo spectrum from left to right. However, a downside of this is that sometimes the balance of instruments in the mix can change across different sound systems. Especially if the speakers are spaced closer/further apart than what they were mixed on. That's a brief explanation but I may do a full video on it.
I'm glad it was useful. This was made using Pro Tools 8, on a Mac, back in 2012. But pretty much everything still translates to the current version :-)
Seems like a great program, the last 2 and a half years I have been using Pro Tools SE, its a very limited program. Pro Tools LE seems to have more features, just for the 300 sounds it has in Xpand, makes it worth the price. I have a fast track interface, it probably wouldn't work with Pro Tools LE.
I'm not sure if the Fast Track would work, but there's now many universal ASIO drivers to allow third party interfaces to work with Pro Tools. Search for asio4all
Hi Great tutoria, as a newbe can I ask if I can use my roland xa keyboard to play the virtual music sounds in protools and where do I plug midi lead into window computer to get to protools and will I need to configure the keyboard so computer can receive messages or will it be auto to computer, I'm using a Roland studio capture 16-10 interface
Well, your roland xa has MIDI connections, and so does your Roland studio capture 16-10. So you just need to connect those together (with standard 5 pin MIdi cables) and you should have MIDI working. Alternatively, you can buy a standalone USB MIDI interface that plugs directly into the computer.
