Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets

1. Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets Chapter 3 Editing: Slip, Shuffle and Spot your way Home

2. Pro Tools Recording techniques in this chapter include: • Strip Silence • Beat Detective • Grouping and Looping Regions • Tick Based Regions • Pro Tools 7 and Rex files

3. Strip Silence • Adjust the parameters to determine the size of the new Regions • Strip Silence can get rid of unwanted low level audio such as headphone bleed on a vocal track. • Extract feature can be used to capture room tone. • Separate function allows you to slice up Regions Recycle style. • Separated audio Regions can be Quantized or placed on a tick based track to re-BPM the audio. • Regions can be Quantized either Grid or Groove.

4. Beat Detective • Groove extraction capabilities. • Recycle type slicing action. • Generate a Tempo Map to a track recorded without a click and work in Grid Mode. • Conform or Quantize audio Regions after slicing. • Selection based processing, the tighter the selection the better the results.

5. Grouping and Looping Regions • Grouping Regions allows you to control many different elements of your session as one unit. • Grouped Regions still maintain their individual controls. • Groups can be nested within other Groups allowing for incredible editing flexibility. • Region Groups can be exported.

6. Tick Based Regions • Relative to Tempo, not Absolute • Allow audio to be Quantized to either the Grid or to a Groove like MIDI. • Audio can be imported to the Edit window by drag and drop from the Finder. • Create a very flexible production environment by allowing tempo and meter changes at any point during composition.

7. Pro Tools 7 and Rex files • Rex files can change tempo without changing pitch • Rex files can change pitch without changing tempo. • Rex files can be imported into Pro Tools by drag and drop, from the Workspace Browser or through Import Audio. • Ungrouped Rex files on a Tick Based Track offer maximum flexibility.