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Comment on Mid-Week Quick Tip: Fix bad automation! by d.a.calf

d.a.calf — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:06:02 +0000

I just stumbled upon this site via the twitter feeds. I love it.
Too many cool shortcuts. How do I keep them all in my brain??
Thanks

Comment on Advanced Nudging by Tommy Arize

Tommy Arize — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:27:53 +0000

mfish took the words right outta my mouth. Straight up PT 201 test question bidness!

Comment on Advanced Nudging by Major

Major — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:06:39 +0000

One of my favorites too!!!

we posted about it here: http://protools.dudesnetwork.com/2009/04/06/nudge/

Thanks for including it though!

NUDGE NUDGE NUDGE!

Comment on Advanced Nudging by mfish1000

mfish1000 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:47:36 +0000

You forgot my favorite one.

Control +/- nudges the audio within a selected region without changes the in and out of the region.

Comment on EQ “Band Soloing” by Steve Urban

Steve Urban — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:02:25 +0000

I had read this on a page that I have yet to find again on the DUC when EQ3 first came out but had forgotten the key combo, been searching ever since! Thanks!

Comment on Rule Your Rulers! by Major

Major — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:24 +0000

Unfortunately you have found my weak spot!! I know very little about the MIDI side of things, and the bar/beats ruler… I’ll keep an eye out and let you know if I find any information. :-/
Let me know if you find any solutions you’d like to share.

Comment on Rule Your Rulers! by iZLER

iZLER — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:25:39 +0000

btw ….. is there a way, when you copy and paste or move MIDI notes to automatically copy any MIDI cc data or automation that comes with them?

Comment on Rule Your Rulers! by iZLER

iZLER — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:04:16 +0000

I’m a film composer, just starting to seq in PT. I come up against this a lot for eg:

I have a hit point in the movie at a certain SMPTE time where I need to place say Bar 5 Beat 1 at 100 BPM. Unfortunately I don’t know a way of telling PT to place that bar beat and tempo in exactly that spot very easily – so I have to line up my tempo for the nearest quater note to fall on my hit point by moving the start time back and forth. Now say I’ve got it to a point where a quater note falls exactly on that spot, but it’s beat 3 of bar 5 not beat 1 – so, now I have to switch to the bar and beat ruler and hilight the exact distance between beat 1 and 3. Then I switch to the time code ruler to find exactly what that distance is in terms of the time code I’m working at, before subtracting that exact amount of timecode from my start time. Now beat 1 of bar 5 is at the exact spot I need it to be at.

It’s kind of a huge pain in the arse actually! If anyone else does this kind of thing, I’d love to hear people’s workflow and methods. There’s not nearly enough info out there for movie composers regarding PT because PT isn’t traditionally a composing / MIDI platform. However, now with PT8, loads of us would be switching over if there was better support. Believe me, we’re all sick of the Logic, Cubase and DP monopoly in this field!

However, there really need to be some more intuitive methods developed for this kind of stuff in order for PT to make any kind of headway in this field. Believe me though, there are a lot of us!

I could go into much more detail but I’m scoring a movie with a deadline breathing down my neck so I’ll try and post here and there. Maybe there is help out there

best

iZLER

Comment on Pro Tools 8.0.3 Bug Fixes! by Ferrante

Ferrante — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:16:59 +0000

Chad – Me and tons of other people also have the white noise problem in 8.0.3. I reversed to 8.0.0 and I am intending on staying there. My biggest mistake was to upgrade to 8.0.3 too fast, before reading on forums what it did to people. It amazes me that Digi Design were totally unaware of this problem before releasing the upgrade.

Comment on Rule Your Rulers! by Major

Major — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:45:29 +0000

Not that I know of… just clicking on the ruler… :-/

Just because I’m curious, what are you doing that you need to switch your ruler time-base that much?