Avid Pro Tools: Beginner To Advanced

Preparing you for work in multiple disciplines of audio engineering

What you'll learn

Obtain competence with the Avid Pro Tools software

Be able to navigate the software and achieve your goals

Gain confidence in your ability to work in Music, Film, Podcasts or Sound Design

Build knowledge of audio engineering principles and practices

Requirements

You are not required to have prior Audio Engineering or Pro Tools knowledge before undertaking this course. If you are on a Windows computer you would likely want to have an audio interface (external sound card). You also need access to some version of Avid Pro Tools

Description

This course takes you from beginner to advanced Pro Tools operation. We cover the things that I feel you should know. I've developed this curriculum based on my years as a university lecturer and practical instructor, teaching Audio Engineering, Sound Design and Music Production. Whether you are a beginner in audio production, or you have worked with other Digital Audio Workstations and are looking to move over to Pro Tools, this course is for you!The course structure takes us through various projects and has you introduced to topics as they arise throughout the projects we undertake. I feel this makes for a course that contextualises the topics I am presenting and shows you why they are important to know. Some topics that, in my experience, beginners have had a hard time grasping and absorbing the information, are shown multiple times so that you fully understand the concepts and can solidify your understanding.A lot of the examples in the course focus on Music sessions, however we look at working with video as well as some Pro Tools operations that are crucial to know if you are working with software development, game development, sound design and more.I hope you enjoy the course!

Overview

Section 1: Installation

Lecture 1 Installation

Section 2: Getting Started with Music

Lecture 2 02. The Creation Session Session

Lecture 3 03. Audio Tracks

Lecture 4 04. Edit Modes and Fades

Lecture 5 05. Midi Notes and the Quantize Function

Lecture 6 06. Inserts and the EQ Plugin

Lecture 7 07. Effects, Sends and Busses

Lecture 8 08. Printing to an Audio Track

Lecture 9 09. The Commit and Freeze Functions

Lecture 10 10. Delays. Relative Grid Mode. Routing

Lecture 11 11. Pre and Post Fader Sends

Lecture 12 12. Adding a Bass Part

Lecture 13 13. Volume Automation

Lecture 14 14. More on Automation

Lecture 15 15. Direct Monitoring and Latency

Lecture 16 16. Recording a Guitar Part

Lecture 17 17. Using Playlists to Record Multiple Takes

Lecture 18 18. Clip Gain vs Volume Automation

Section 3: Digital Audio Theory

Lecture 19 19. Sample Rate and Bit Depth

Lecture 20 20. The Nyquist Theorem

Section 4: Music Session Edit and Mix

Lecture 21 21. Backing Up a Session

Lecture 22 22. Song Introduction

Lecture 23 23. Importing Audio

Lecture 24 24. Renaming and Colouring Tracks

Lecture 25 25. Auxiliary Tracks and Routing Folders

Lecture 26 26. Editing And Balancing

Lecture 27 Reverb and Delay

Lecture 28 Delay and Compression

Lecture 29 Sends Automation

Lecture 30 Loudness Units

Lecture 31 Bouncing a Mix

Lecture 32 The Solo Function Affecting Bounce to Mix

Section 5: Working with Different Audio Formats

Lecture 33 Importing Files of Different Sample Rates

Lecture 34 Working with 5.1 Surround

Lecture 35 Working with 7.1 Surround

Lecture 36 Working in 7.1.2

Section 6: Second Music Session

Lecture 37 Introduction

Lecture 38 Pre Fader and Post Fader Recap

Lecture 39 Edit Practice Task #1

Lecture 40 Edit Practice Task #2

Lecture 41 Mixing, Reverb, EQ, Compression

Lecture 42 Signal Chain Recap

Lecture 43 Automation

Lecture 44 Automation Controls. Plugin Automation

Lecture 45 Automation Follows Edit

Section 7: Additional Content

Lecture 46 Consolidate Audio and Clip Grouping

Lecture 47 Audiosuite

Lecture 48 Tab to Transients

Lecture 49 Strip Silence

Lecture 50 Batch Rename

Lecture 51 Export Clips as Files

Lecture 52 Clip Groups. Export Block. Bouncing to Disk

Lecture 53 Importing and Working with Video

Lecture 54 Import Session Data

Lecture 55 Using AAF Files

Lecture 56 Saving a Session Template

This course is intended for anyone with an interest in Audio Editing and Recording software. If you are a complete beginner, please come on in! If you are not a beginner and you are coming over from a different software, please, also, come on in!