Week 5 - CC1 - Sequencing (2)

The fact that it is absolutely necessary to save all the folders of a complete Pro Tools session cannot be stressed enough by Christian. This includes the session file AND the audio files folder and to a lesser extent the fade files, although Pro Tools will recreate them if they are missing. We have been warned. I also think it’s a good habit to get into keeping any MIDI files, plugin patches and settings in with the song files in it’s own folder.

Since Digidesign’s Pro Tools is the industry standard in digital audio workstations it makes perfect sense that we will be performing a large part of our work using both LE and HD systems. Pro Tools’ user interface is split into two screens, mix window and edit window. By using these two windows we can alter, smash, twist, massage and prod sounds into nice little mixes. Well, maybe not that easy, but I have found that Pro Tools is very user friendly. Much easier to use than certain ‘logic-al’ DAW’s.

This week we are to go nuts with the automation. Do some consolidating, duplicating and routing through some busses. Automate some plugins as well as panning and volume changes. Use some RTAS and Audiosuite plugins. See a button and move it, click it, see what it does. I used photo editing so I could use the same shapes as last week to make the score. After making the score I set out to make the ‘music’ by the same method as before only this time the sounds were going to be altered and manipulated. One section on Track 3 had the pencil tool used set to 1/8th notes get a quick, even spacing of mutes. Some quick “bursts” on Track 6 had the reverse plugin, some time expansion and a phaser effect applied. There was a bit of cheesy ‘whooshy’ panning going on too.

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Haines, Christian. 2007. "Creative Computing." Seminar presented at the University of Adelaide, 28 March.

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