Pro Tools 10 Essential Training

Pro Tools 10 Essential Training with musician and producer David Franz illuminates the process of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in Avid Pro Tools, the industry-standard software for music and postproduction. The course covers recording live audio and adding effects on the fly, creating music with virtual instruments and plug-ins, editing for time and pitch manipulation, creating a musical score, and mixing and mastering a track.

Topics include:

• Exploring the Pro Tools interface
• Selecting inputs, outputs, and busses
• Understanding signal paths and gain stages
• Setting up Pro Tools hardware and software properly
• Importing audio from multiple sources
• Recording and editing audio and MIDI
• Adjusting time, tempo, meter, key, and chord in arrangements
• Mixing and mastering a session
• Setting up an effects loop
• Importing and displaying video
• Adding music, Foley, ADR, and FX
• Archiving a session