Creating A Beat & Composing Music In Pro Tools

Learn how to use MIDI and Audio Samples in music production

What you'll learn
Setup a Pro Tools session
Record MIDI & audio into the Pro Tools workspace
Setup tempo changes and arrange MIDI notes to sync with the tempo
Import audio samples to arrange within a mix
Use the Grid feature in Pro Tools with confidence
Create custom samples and trigger them with MIDI
Add effects to the samples and sounds being generated by Pro Tools
Requirements
A minimal understanding of MIDI and what it does in music production
Familiarity with the Pro Tools workspace
How to connect a USB keyboard to a computer
How to connect an external hard drive or install an internal hard drive in a computer
Description
Welcome to creating a instrumental beat or musical score from scratch within the Pro Tools DAW. This course will cover everything you need to know from start to finish for composing music with MIDI and analog samples within the Pro Tools work space. We'll start with the session setup and how to organize your tracks to create a template. This will allow you to quickly and easily create new compositions regularly to keep your creative ideas flowing. 
At the start of this course, we're going to cover some essential basics that are fundamental in your workflow production. You may already be aware of these crucial steps to production, but just in case you missed something, I'm going to review how to optimize your system for a professional workflow in Pro Tools.
This course is perfect for anyone interested in learning how to use digital software to compose music. We'll take a look at the stock plugins that come with Pro Tools and then explore some 3rd party plugins that you can add to your system if you need to expand your sound library. You'll be able to customize your sounds and learn the basics for creating an engaging mix.
Finally, I'll give you some advice on how to distribute and market your music so that you can turn your passion into a source of income. I look forward to sharing this course with you and I welcome any questions you may have about the lectures.

Overview

Section 1: Setting Up Pro Tools & Templates

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 Shine On Audio Community

Lecture 3 Sample Websites

Lecture 4 Working with Samples

Lecture 5 Pro Tools as a DAW

Lecture 6 24 bit vs. 32 bit float

Lecture 7 Getting Started with Pro Tools

Lecture 8 How to setup Pro Tools Quick Start Dialogue

Lecture 9 Hard drive setup & system optimization

Lecture 10 Creating Instrument and MIDI tracks

Lecture 11 Edit Window Zoom Features

Lecture 12 Memory Location Selection and Zoom settings

Lecture 13 Plugin Recommendations

Section 2: Learn how to control your sound

Lecture 14 Using a Gate

Lecture 15 Layering Sounds

Section 3: Composing the Beat

Lecture 16 Routing MIDI through the XPAND2 sampler

Lecture 17 Basic concepts of beat building

Lecture 18 Create your own 808 Bass Tone

Lecture 19 Adding MIDI notes to the Instrument tracks

Lecture 20 Adding Samples to the Mix

Lecture 21 Adding Delay to the analog samples

Lecture 22 Working with Arpeggiated Synth sound inside the XPAND2 workstation

Lecture 23 Setting up Structure to sample audio

Lecture 24 Recording MIDI with Structure + Adding FX in Structure

Lecture 25 Adding Distortion to the Structure Sample w/ Sans Amp PSA-1

Lecture 26 Getting deeper into the options within Structure

Section 4: Mixing & Automation in Pro Tools

Lecture 27 Adjusting Volume & Manual Volume Automation

Lecture 28 Writing automation to your volume levels

Lecture 29 Clip Gain

Lecture 30 Adjusting Volume on Instrument tracks containing MIDI notes

Lecture 31 Resampling MIDI into an audio file

Lecture 32 Individual Stems

Section 5: Effects and Textures

Lecture 33 Adding Delay to your Drum Track

Lecture 34 Side-Chain Effects to create depth in the mix

Lecture 35 Synth Motion: Using an expander to create motion

Lecture 36 The Pro Tools Secret Weapon

Section 6: Mixing the beat (Uploading more videos soon)

Lecture 37 Mixing the Beat Part I

Lecture 38 Mixing the Beat Part II

Lecture 39 Mixing the Beat Part III

Lecture 40 Mixing the Beat Part IV

Lecture 41 Mixing the Beat Part V

Perfect for any student that wants to learn how to create custom beats in Pro Tools. ,Composers looking to add Pro Tools compositions to their portfolio