I'm currently teaching myself protools so I can take an Advanced Computer Music class in the fall and this series has literally been a lifesaver thank you so so much
If it was confusing to anyone, and I know it was for me when I first heard all these terms: An "Aux Input" aka "Aux Track" is a type of TRACK - with a fader etc. The signal gets to the Aux using a BUS. A BUS is an audio channel used to route signal throughout the digital mixer (think of a school bus taking all the kids (audio) to a destination). A SEND is an additional output that SENDS a COPY of the signal through a BUS to an Aux track. Different then routing the whole channel to an Aux Track. I hope this clears up anyone's confusions - people use these terms wrongly all the time or don't even know....
Great content Good sir!!! You explain Pro Tools very well and I am very fortunate to have come across your channel. Many Thanks from the city of Chicago.
Brilliant. This is exactly (including 1 & 2) what I needed as a refresher course. It also helps to relate to signal path I learned through analog recording. Can't thank you enough.
Thank you for your tips on the Pro Tools tutorials,for Beginners .Your explanation is times fine,the one problem is that I fail to see how it is done,because when you do it ,it is hard to see the mouse,and was it some times left or right.but thank you for the lesson,they have been a great help.
Great videos man! Highly informative and clearly explained! Thank you. One question though.. When creating a new track, on the far right it has the option of toggling between "samples" or "clicks"? Can you explain what either does please?
I love your tutorials, they're so simple yet so very useful :) Thanks for taking your time to make these! Will there be a tutorial on recording audio on PT soon? I'm stuck at that part and I really look forward to understanding it from a good teacher! Regards from Bulgaria!
Hi Martin. Thanks for your comments...they're awesome. I must have read your mind because the next video is EXACTLY what you asked for. Recording audio is the next one and it should be up either today or tomorrow...:-). It's with the video guys now for final touches!! cheers from Jase.
Hi there and thanks for the comment. I'll do as you say as keep them coming. I have finished recording the next one, but it's some touching up. hopefully to be uploaded very very soon. Cheers from Jase.
Thank you for this. I would like you to state what the hot keys are for Windows when you state what they are for Mac, too. I started out with Trackers on the Amiga back about 1985 and i have use almost every type of Daw and tracker since. But i always swayed Pro Tools and now have a copy. I must say that i am very impressed with it. But i have no patience for tutorials because i know most already and need to know the routes to implement the tasks that other daws do, such as duplicating audio files and editing them and the tabs to send channels to Aux / sends and so fourth. Yet, i do find your tutorials quite good even as an advanced producer. A little refinement would be apt , though. Thank you, again.
Love the tutorials, keep it up!. But quick question, is doing the auxiliary channel the same as making a group with the tracks on the left? Does it do the same thing or does running them through an AUX give you more options?
I actually do both. I create a Submix for the drums using a stereo AUX track. This gives me the option of adjusting level for the kit, and by inserting a plug in across that track, it allows me to process the whole kit. It also allows me to see the level of the whole kit using the track's level meters. I then also create a drums group on the left hand side. I use this mainly for editing purposes, but you are right, it does allow me to mute/solo/adjust level for the whole kit as well. Hope that makes sense. Cheers from Jase.
How do you make different speeds for music videos to synch up in post? For example we're shooting in 23.98fps they want the track to play at 60fps which is sped up in real time but for post its slow mo. How do you make that track with the time code in pro tools?
Thank you so much for the tutorial I was watching but I have a question about midi setting volume which I don’t know how and why Isn’t working well with me for since I touched the last time at the area I mean on the midi editing the very bottom left area. and some time the volume dropped down by itself so how can I solve this problem?
great great tutorial. One question please. What is the purpose of Midi track. You didn't go much through it. secondly, in the instrument track can i, for instance, add a guitar midi track and then transfer it into a piano track through (for example) ez keys plugin?
+Efraim Judah. Thanks for the comment. MIDI tracks are the same as Instrument tracks in that they both contain MIDI data. The BIG difference is that on an instrument track the MIDI data is only sent to the instrument that is inserted on that channel. You cannot insert an instrument on a MIDI track. With a MIDI track, you send the data to other "devices". That can include other instrument tracks, external MIDI gear or even rewired instruments. I didn't cover it too much in this tutorial as it is just slightly beyond the target audience of "beginner". I hope my answer makes sense.
Thanks for the information. I have been looking for this for myself for a while. A question what computer is good for working with protools. I have a 27 i mac. But sometimes it says cpu is slow.
Hi. I'm really enjoying your videos. I have a question. I am about to purchase Pro Tools, and need to buy a new computer. What would be a reasonable computer to buy?
I am very new to pro tools and something is driving me nuts. If I go to import -> audio -> choose some tracks, then import them into a blank session, they go in, into their own separate tracks but when I play through it, the "cursor" keeps going. In other words it doesn't know when the song ends. How can I cut off all the blank space? Also, how would I get it to just continually loop the song?
Michael Henderson Hi Michael. Pro Tools will continue to play forever until you tell it to stop, so that's normal. To get it to play JUST the song, make a "selection" (ie highlight) that is the length of the song. Pro tools will play the length of the selection. To get it to loop, right click the "play" button. You want to see a green arrow on the play button. Let me know if there's more questions and I'll cover more of this stuff in part 6.
great tutorial thanks a lot, just a quick feedback, the pace of the tutorial and the low voice makes the lessons somewhat boring sometime, i think if you prepare a script or so and increase the pace a bit it will be a lot better, i went through 2 videos and then i couldn't finish the 3rd one because the pace was very slow. but again very informative thanks a lot
Hi there. really helpful videos thanks. Ive made a master fader track but nothing is going through that track. How do I run everything through the master fader?
+zer01ife Make sure that the Master Fader's slot is set to match your other tracks. It normally automatically gets created like that, but for some reason it may have gone awry with your session. Hope that helps.
When I change the colours of my mixing channels, the whole mixing channel doesn't change colour like in the video, only the little tab you click change colour. How to I make it so the whole mixing channel will change colour and not only the tab below?
+Pier Sam Hi there. When you select the colour for your track, there's a slider called "Saturation". Just turn that up and the colour will be spread across the whole mixer channel. Let me know if there's any further questions. Cheers from Jase.
Hi, I am really struggling with this Aux track thing. It is not happening like in your video. I created an Aux track and called it "harmony submix" for vocal harmonies, but when I try to route my multiple harmony tracks there, "harmony submix" is not one of the options. Were there steps missed in this video?? I just can't figure this out and I've been trying different things all afternoon.
+jordancooperlalala Check the following: 1) On the Aux Input track, identify what the input slot is for that channel. It should be set to a pair of buses (eg Bus 1-2). Note, it will not necessarily be what the track name is. 2) Then you assign the outputs of the individual vocal tracks to the same bus number. Hope that makes sense. Cheers from Jase
+jasondewilde Ok, I did what you said, and it sort of worked, but now I can't solo either the original tracks or the bus track. Is this normal? I can affect the volume of all the harmonies and I can mute it, but not solo.
+jordancooperlalala Ok, yep that makes sense. What is happening is that when you solo any track, ALL other tracks get muted. So when you solo an original track, the bus gets muted. When you solo the bus, the original tracks get muted. Either way you'll hear nothing ! So to prevent this annoying function, "solo safe" the submix track. Command click the solo button of the submix track and it will "grey out". This means that when you solo a channel, it will not mute. This should solve the problem. Let me know if there are still problems. Jase.
This really is excellent, but I'm imagining people with misophonia and other sound sensitivities (like me) are struggling with some of the high frequency close-mic-ed mouth sounds by the instructor (and the "ok"s over and over). Though the people who love ASMR are probably happy as clams. Maybe run a low pass filter through the audio to cut some that?
Just one complaint, MIDI tracks are primarily used with external hardware instruments whereas Instrument tracks for virtual instruments. This is an important distinction that I think is overlooked...
love you work mate :) havent used pro tools in about 2 years, just downloaded 12.2 and this is exactly what need. Thanks! on quock qestion if you dont mind. i have two mono audio tracks and one sterio audio track but i cant grab the mono ones and bring them to the sterio track like you do in the video, do i need to set somthing? is there any benifit of recording two mono tracks as opposed to recording one stereo track? again, love your work.
+ben barcham Hi Ben. So sorry it's taken so long to reply. Swamped here at AIM as we start our new trimester :-). I've been trying to work out the answer to your first question. I've been able to grab two mono audio regions into a stereo audio track without issues. The files don't have to be the same size or anything. You just need to make sure to grab the regions at the same time as you drag them. Also just check that you are dragging it onto an AUDIO track and not an AUX INPUT track. Let me know how you go. In answer to your second question, I often record to 2 mono tracks, just because I am often recording other mono tracks at the same time. There's no benefit of 2 mono tracks - except that it's consistent with other things I'm recording. Hope that makes sense! Cheers from Jase.
Hi Jason, thanks for getting back to me,and no problems it took a while.. didn't think id really hear anything back anyway :) it turns out i was just trying to drag them to a aux track ( its always something simple lol) i have been on music/ pro tools hiatus for about three years so Im a bit rusty. but your videos are helping me a lot. Keep up the good work and if i have any more dumb questions ill be sure to send you a message haha . cheers Ben
Thank you so much for your reply, but i cant seem to find this song any where on the internet! I'd pay to get a hold of this track, i simply love it !!! could you direct me to the right link? Thanks again Jason, your tutorials are really helpful ! cheers.
Ok, the first tutorial started off very promising, but the subsequent tutorials have been nothing short of a cluster*ck. Too much digression, too much minutiae - plus, you're skipping over things which might help matters make more sense. There's no logical structure to what you're doing and it's far too confusing.
You are assuming that everybody knows the basic stuff and moving forward continuously. You have the pace because you are using it, but you have to be a bit slower while teaching it. It isn't helping me.
I know. It took me 3 videos to say that sir. You should've mentioned where you're clicking, what tools you're using before actually using them. For the most of it, It didn't help me. Thanks anyway.
This video is getting me tight, YOU don’t show how to do things you’re doing with ur keyboard you’re just saying what things do but wtf what if I wanna do it too FUCKING show how to do it, like tell us what to click tf
This is the BEST tutorial video i have seen so far. You are making my life easy here. Thank you much!!!
Your tutorials have been an immense help! Your calm demeanor and the pace of the videos are perfect. Keep up the great work. Thanks!
WhippJunior Thanks for the comments. I've had mixed reviews on the pace, but it's great to hear it worked for you.
I'm currently teaching myself protools so I can take an Advanced Computer Music class in the fall and this series has literally been a lifesaver thank you so so much
Fantastic tutorials. I haven't been able to find anything even close to as clear and explanatory as these videos. Thank you and keep up the good work!
If it was confusing to anyone, and I know it was for me when I first heard all these terms: An "Aux Input" aka "Aux Track" is a type of TRACK - with a fader etc. The signal gets to the Aux using a BUS. A BUS is an audio channel used to route signal throughout the digital mixer (think of a school bus taking all the kids (audio) to a destination). A SEND is an additional output that SENDS a COPY of the signal through a BUS to an Aux track. Different then routing the whole channel to an Aux Track. I hope this clears up anyone's confusions - people use these terms wrongly all the time or don't even know....
Geat videos, helped me a lot as an absolute beginner. Thanks
very clear explanation and useful tips
I would like to leave a question, but I can't because you explained it very clear. Kudos to this channel. It deserves a subscribe, Thanks a lot!
Well explained! Some of these other guys make this out to be rocket science 🧬!
Very good tutorial!
Great work by a professional teacher
Great content Good sir!!! You explain Pro Tools very well and I am very fortunate to have come across your channel. Many Thanks from the city of Chicago.
Brilliant. This is exactly (including 1 & 2) what I needed as a refresher course. It also helps to relate to signal path I learned through analog recording. Can't thank you enough.
Excellent explanations. Bookmarking all of these!
Thanks ideal for starter level. I'm learning a lot through these videos :)
Hi. Great tutorial. Pace is just right to be able to remember what you're saying. Thank you!
Really helpful, thank you!
amazing work im learning alot through these thanks alot
Thank you for your tips on the Pro Tools tutorials,for Beginners .Your explanation is times fine,the one problem is that I
fail to see how it is done,because when you do it ,it is hard to see the mouse,and was it some times left or right.but thank you for the lesson,they have been a great help.
These tutorials are wonderful!
please keep posting these tutorials, they are really helpful
Well, now that you mention it, I've just finished the next one. Should be up soon!!! Stay tuned and thanks for the feedback.
Thank You for your time and posting these videos, so Educational!
Best tutorials I've found!
Thank you very much. Fantastic clear and professional lessons !
Hello, thank you very much for your tutorials !
No worries Daniel. Hope they help.
Thanks for your tutos! very helpful
Cheers for that. Always good to get some positive comments. Greetings from Jase.
Thank you.
Hello Jason, thank you for the tutorial & I’m looking forward to applying this information to my session….I have PRO TOOLS 10
Thank you so much, i understand pro tools so much better now!
Great videos man! Highly informative and clearly explained! Thank you.
One question though.. When creating a new track, on the far right it has the option of toggling between "samples" or "clicks"? Can you explain what either does please?
i really love your teaching ,thanks
Thank you
A wonderful tutorial, thank you so much, this content is precious and should be shared!!!
Absolutely loving these! Very useful and easy to understand!
very nicely explained tutorials. thanks a lot
AWESOME.
Thank you for these tutorials
I love your tutorials, they're so simple yet so very useful :) Thanks for taking your time to make these! Will there be a tutorial on recording audio on PT soon? I'm stuck at that part and I really look forward to understanding it from a good teacher! Regards from Bulgaria!
Hi Martin. Thanks for your comments...they're awesome. I must have read your mind because the next video is EXACTLY what you asked for. Recording audio is the next one and it should be up either today or tomorrow...:-). It's with the video guys now for final touches!! cheers from Jase.
great teaching skills
Keep them coming.
I'm learning a lot.
Thank you.
Hi there and thanks for the comment. I'll do as you say as keep them coming. I have finished recording the next one, but it's some touching up. hopefully to be uploaded very very soon. Cheers from Jase.
Your the man definetly deserve your position
Thank you very much for this friendly tutorial .Appreciated.
Great series. Looking forward to many more vids. Appreciated sir. Thanks
Hi there, and thanks for your comments. Still plenty more to come. Greetings from Jase.
Thank you for this. I would like you to state what the hot keys are for Windows when you state what they are for Mac, too. I started out with Trackers on the Amiga back about 1985 and i have use almost every type of Daw and tracker since. But i always swayed Pro Tools and now have a copy. I must say that i am very impressed with it. But i have no patience for tutorials because i know most already and need to know the routes to implement the tasks that other daws do, such as duplicating audio files and editing them and the tabs to send channels to Aux / sends and so fourth. Yet, i do find your tutorials quite good even as an advanced producer. A little refinement would be apt , though. Thank you, again.
The 5 people who disliked, how can you hate on these awesome tutorials? lol
Excellent video
I really appreciate your tutorials! Thanks :)
What's the difference between creating an Aux input track and grouping numerous audio tracks?
Just perfect! Thank you so much!
Tremendamente claro. Mil gracias!
very helpful thank you
Very good
Cheers Douglas.
Amazing stuff
Love the tutorials, keep it up!. But quick question, is doing the auxiliary channel the same as making a group with the tracks on the left? Does it do the same thing or does running them through an AUX give you more options?
I actually do both. I create a Submix for the drums using a stereo AUX track. This gives me the option of adjusting level for the kit, and by inserting a plug in across that track, it allows me to process the whole kit. It also allows me to see the level of the whole kit using the track's level meters. I then also create a drums group on the left hand side. I use this mainly for editing purposes, but you are right, it does allow me to mute/solo/adjust level for the whole kit as well. Hope that makes sense. Cheers from Jase.
I am learning so much!!!
How do you make different speeds for music videos to synch up in post? For example we're shooting in 23.98fps they want the track to play at 60fps which is sped up in real time but for post its slow mo. How do you make that track with the time code in pro tools?
Thank you so much for the tutorial I was watching but I have a question about midi setting volume which I don’t know how and why Isn’t working well with me for since I touched the last time at the area I mean on the midi editing the very bottom left area. and some time the volume dropped down by itself so how can I solve this problem?
Just subbed. Great videos! When is part 4 going to be uploaded?
Hey there. Part 4 is up now! Check it out.
great great tutorial. One question please. What is the purpose of Midi track. You didn't go much through it.
secondly, in the instrument track can i, for instance, add a guitar midi track and then transfer it into a piano track through (for example) ez keys plugin?
+Efraim Judah. Thanks for the comment. MIDI tracks are the same as Instrument tracks in that they both contain MIDI data. The BIG difference is that on an instrument track the MIDI data is only sent to the instrument that is inserted on that channel. You cannot insert an instrument on a MIDI track. With a MIDI track, you send the data to other "devices". That can include other instrument tracks, external MIDI gear or even rewired instruments. I didn't cover it too much in this tutorial as it is just slightly beyond the target audience of "beginner". I hope my answer makes sense.
Thanks for the information. I have been looking for this for myself for a while. A question what computer is good for working with protools. I have a 27 i mac. But sometimes it says cpu is slow.
Gold
Thanks man. That helped me out a lot. I'm new at making music. I had no idea how difficult the software would be lol 😂
... but rewarding! :)
@@Ghstek Yes. Very. I'm actually proud with my progress. I went from zero to amateur status now lol next is what semi pro 😂
Hi. I'm really enjoying your videos. I have a question. I am about to purchase Pro Tools, and need to buy a new computer. What would be a reasonable computer to buy?
8:31 satisfying "so" sync
I am very new to pro tools and something is driving me nuts. If I go to import -> audio -> choose some tracks, then import them into a blank session, they go in, into their own separate tracks but when I play through it, the "cursor" keeps going. In other words it doesn't know when the song ends. How can I cut off all the blank space? Also, how would I get it to just continually loop the song?
Michael Henderson Hi Michael. Pro Tools will continue to play forever until you tell it to stop, so that's normal. To get it to play JUST the song, make a "selection" (ie highlight) that is the length of the song. Pro tools will play the length of the selection. To get it to loop, right click the "play" button. You want to see a green arrow on the play button. Let me know if there's more questions and I'll cover more of this stuff in part 6.
great tutorial thanks a lot, just a quick feedback, the pace of the tutorial and the low voice makes the lessons somewhat boring sometime, i think if you prepare a script or so and increase the pace a bit it will be a lot better, i went through 2 videos and then i couldn't finish the 3rd one because the pace was very slow. but again very informative thanks a lot
Hi there. really helpful videos thanks. Ive made a master fader track but nothing is going through that track. How do I run everything through the master fader?
+zer01ife Make sure that the Master Fader's slot is set to match your other tracks. It normally automatically gets created like that, but for some reason it may have gone awry with your session. Hope that helps.
When I change the colours of my mixing channels, the whole mixing channel doesn't change colour like in the video, only the little tab you click change colour. How to I make it so the whole mixing channel will change colour and not only the tab below?
+Pier Sam Hi there. When you select the colour for your track, there's a slider called "Saturation". Just turn that up and the colour will be spread across the whole mixer channel. Let me know if there's any further questions. Cheers from Jase.
Hi, I am really struggling with this Aux track thing. It is not happening like in your video. I created an Aux track and called it "harmony submix" for vocal harmonies, but when I try to route my multiple harmony tracks there, "harmony submix" is not one of the options. Were there steps missed in this video?? I just can't figure this out and I've been trying different things all afternoon.
+jordancooperlalala Check the following: 1) On the Aux Input track, identify what the input slot is for that channel. It should be set to a pair of buses (eg Bus 1-2). Note, it will not necessarily be what the track name is. 2) Then you assign the outputs of the individual vocal tracks to the same bus number. Hope that makes sense. Cheers from Jase
+jasondewilde Ok, I did what you said, and it sort of worked, but now I can't solo either the original tracks or the bus track. Is this normal? I can affect the volume of all the harmonies and I can mute it, but not solo.
+jordancooperlalala Ok, yep that makes sense. What is happening is that when you solo any track, ALL other tracks get muted. So when you solo an original track, the bus gets muted. When you solo the bus, the original tracks get muted. Either way you'll hear nothing ! So to prevent this annoying function, "solo safe" the submix track. Command click the solo button of the submix track and it will "grey out". This means that when you solo a channel, it will not mute. This should solve the problem. Let me know if there are still problems. Jase.
Respect
This really is excellent, but I'm imagining people with misophonia and other sound sensitivities (like me) are struggling with some of the high frequency close-mic-ed mouth sounds by the instructor (and the "ok"s over and over). Though the people who love ASMR are probably happy as clams. Maybe run a low pass filter through the audio to cut some that?
Just one complaint, MIDI tracks are primarily used with external hardware instruments whereas Instrument tracks for virtual instruments. This is an important distinction that I think is overlooked...
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love you work mate :) havent used pro tools in about 2 years, just downloaded 12.2 and this is exactly what need. Thanks!
on quock qestion if you dont mind. i have two mono audio tracks and one sterio audio track but i cant grab the mono ones and bring them to the sterio track like you do in the video, do i need to set somthing? is there any benifit of recording two mono tracks as opposed to recording one stereo track? again, love your work.
+ben barcham Hi Ben. So sorry it's taken so long to reply. Swamped here at AIM as we start our new trimester :-). I've been trying to work out the answer to your first question. I've been able to grab two mono audio regions into a stereo audio track without issues. The files don't have to be the same size or anything. You just need to make sure to grab the regions at the same time as you drag them. Also just check that you are dragging it onto an AUDIO track and not an AUX INPUT track. Let me know how you go. In answer to your second question, I often record to 2 mono tracks, just because I am often recording other mono tracks at the same time. There's no benefit of 2 mono tracks - except that it's consistent with other things I'm recording. Hope that makes sense! Cheers from Jase.
Hi Jason, thanks for getting back to me,and no problems it took a while.. didn't think id really hear anything back anyway :)
it turns out i was just trying to drag them to a aux track ( its always something simple lol) i have been on music/ pro tools hiatus for about three years so Im a bit rusty. but your videos are helping me a lot.
Keep up the good work and if i have any more dumb questions ill be sure to send you a message haha .
cheers Ben
2:50
But how do you use the instruments?
A midi controller or a synth lol how else would you play the organ? with a mouse???
what is the name of the song at 15:02 ?
The song is called "Bliss" and it's by an artist called Katie Carr.
Thank you so much for your reply, but i cant seem to find this song any where on the internet!
I'd pay to get a hold of this track, i simply love it !!! could you direct me to the right link?
Thanks again Jason, your tutorials are really helpful !
cheers.
The only issue I have is that he never said how to make an Auxiliary track
18:39 bob ross moment
Ok, the first tutorial started off very promising, but the subsequent tutorials have been nothing short of a cluster*ck.
Too much digression, too much minutiae - plus, you're skipping over things which might help matters make more sense.
There's no logical structure to what you're doing and it's far too confusing.
You are assuming that everybody knows the basic stuff and moving forward continuously. You have the pace because you are using it, but you have to be a bit slower while teaching it. It isn't helping me.
I know. It took me 3 videos to say that sir. You should've mentioned where you're clicking, what tools you're using before actually using them. For the most of it, It didn't help me. Thanks anyway.
This video is getting me tight, YOU don’t show how to do things you’re doing with ur keyboard you’re just saying what things do but wtf what if I wanna do it too FUCKING show how to do it, like tell us what to click tf
very helpfull thank you