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Pro Tools LE and
M-Powered
The complete guide
Mike Collins
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Contents
About the Author xv
Acknowledgements xvii
The Intro xix
What’s in a name? xix
Who should use it? xix
Affordable Pro Tools Systems xx
Speakers, Headphones, and Microphones xx
Home Studio Setups xxi
Laptop Musicians xxii
Mac or PC? xxii
Pro Tools LE Software xxiii
Pro Tools M-Powered Software xxiii
Transfers xxiv
Included Software xxiv
Even more software xxvi
What you don’t get in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered xxvii
What’s in the book xxviii
Chapter 1 – Hardware Options for Pro Tools LE and
M-Powered Systems 1
Digi 001 1
Low Latency Monitoring on the Digi 001 3
Monitoring latency and MIDI 4
Digi 002 Rack 5
Front panel 6
Rear panel 6
The Mbox 7
The front panel 8
The back panel 9
Zero-latency monitoring 9
Exploring the Mbox mix control 10
Summary 11
Mbox 2 12
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Front panel 13
Rear panel 14
M-Audio M-Powered Interfaces for Pro Tools 14
FireWire vs USB 14
FireWire Interfaces 14
Ozonic 15
FireWire 410 & FireWire 1814 16
FireWire Audiophile 17
FireWire Solo 18
PCI Cards and Interfaces 19
Audiophile 2496 & Audiophile 192 19
Delta 1010 21
Delta 1010 LT 21
Delta 44 22
Delta 66 23
Latest Additions 23
Chapter 2 – The Digi 002 and the Command|8 25
The Digi 002 25
Rear panel 26
The control surface 27
Top section 28
Middle section 29
Home view 29
Console View Selectors 29
Insert/Send Position Selectors 30
Channel Scribble Strips 30
Display Scribble Strips and Display Mode switch 30
More Buttons and Status Indicators 31
Rotary Encoders 31
Channel Select 31
Channel View 31
Multi-mono Plug-ins 33
Lower Section 34
Faders 34
Transport Controls 34
Navigation & Zoom 34
Window Show/Hide and Playback Mode Switches 35
Fader Flip & Master Faders 35
Function/Utility Keys 35
Keyboard Modifier Switches 36
Digi 002 Modes 36
Standalone Mode 36
Hooking up external sources to the Digi 002 in
Standalone mode 37
Digidesign Command|8 Control Surface 38
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Chapter 3 – Getting to know the Pro Tools LE Software 41
Pro Tools LE Overview 41
Track Priority and Voice Assignment 42
The Mix Window 43
Plug-ins 43
Tracks 44
Inserts 44
Sends 44
I/O Selectors 45
The Edit Window 47
The Edit Modes 49
Zoom Buttons 49
Choose Your Tool 49
Repairing Waveforms using the Pencil Tool 51
Location Indicators 53
Edit window controls and displays 53
Keyboard Focus 54
The Rulers 55
Scrolling Options 56
Playback Cursor Locator 56
The Transport Window 57
Pro Tools LE Menus 58
Pro Tools Menu 58
File Menu 59
Edit Menu 60
View Menu 61
Track Menu 62
Region Menu 63
Event Menu 65
AudioSuite Menu 66
Options Menu 67
Setup Menu 68
Window Menu 69
Help Menu 69
Browser, browser, browser... 69
The Task Window 71
The Relink Window 71
Drag and Drop Features 73
What this chapter has covered 74
Chapter 4 – Getting Started 75
Installing the software 75
Restoring the default Preferences 77
Opening a New Session 78
Choosing File Types 78
Choosing Sample Rates and Bit Depths 78
Saving your Session 80
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What gets saved 81
Why you should use an external hard drive 82
Allocating Hard Disk Space 83
Round Robin Disk Allocation 86
Record Allocation 87
Setting up the inputs and outputs 88
Setting up your first new session with Audio and
MIDI tracks, Auxiliary inputs and Master faders 91
Importing MIDI and Audio 97
Using the Workspace Browser to import audio using
drag & drop 100
Importing Loops & Samples 101
Transferring audio into Pro Tools from CD, DAT or
other digital sources 101
Importing video 103
Importing Audio from Video 104
What this chapter has covered 105
Chapter 5 – Tempos & Grooves 107
Setting up Tempo, Meter and Click 107
Setting the Meter 107
Setting Tempos 108
Manual tempo mode 108
Tempo events 109
Building tempo maps 110
Tempo Operations 110
Using the Click 112
Adjusting Tempos 114
Adjusting the Session tempo to the tempo of
imported (or recorded) audio 115
Adjusting the tempo of imported (or recorded)
audio to the session tempo 119
What is Beat Detective? 122
So why not use Beat Detective? 122
OK, let’s use Beat Detective! 123
Beat Detective Features 123
Using Beat Detective to adjust the Session
tempo to the tempo of an imported audio file 124
Using Beat Detective to adjust the tempo of
an imported audio file to the Session tempo 126
Using REX and ACID Files 129
To Import a REX or ACID File 130
What this chapter has explained 132
Chapter 6 – Recording MIDI and using Virtual Instruments 133
MIDI Setup 133
MIDI Studio... 134
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MIDI Beat Clock... 136
MIDI Input Filter... 137
MIDI Input Devices... 138
Getting Started 139
Setting up to Record MIDI onto a track 140
Recording onto a MIDI or Instrument track 142
Loop recording MIDI 144
Playing back a MIDI or Instrument track 146
Assigning Multiple MIDI Output Assignments 147
Using Virtual Instruments 147
Using Instrument Tracks 148
Using Reason, Live, and SampleTank 150
ReWire 151
Troubleshooting 152
Looping Playback when using ReWire 153
Propellerhead Reason 153
Overview 153
Recording Reason synths 154
Setting up the Reason Synthesizers 155
Routing MIDI from Pro Tools to Reason 162
Recording from Reason into Pro Tools 163
Developing and recording material using
Ableton Live 164
Overview 164
Using Ableton Live with Pro Tools 165
Recording from Ableton Live into Pro Tools 167
IK Multimedia SampleTank 2 169
Overview 169
Adding sampled material using SampleTank 171
Recording from SampleTank into Pro Tools 171
Making tracks inactive to conserve processing
resources 172
Recording virtual instruments as Audio 173
What this chapter has explained 174
Chapter 7 – Editing MIDI 175
Editing Basics 175
Bars, Beats and Clock ‘Ticks’ 175
Graphic Editing 176
Event List Editing 178
Remove Duplicate Notes 179
Stuck Notes 179
Useful Keyboard Commands 180
Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear Commands 180
Marquee Zooming 181
Keyboard Zoom Commands 182
Individual Vertical Zoom 182
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