Archive for January, 2009

Great bookmarks

Great bookmarks

Hey all,

Just an interim post with some great resources Ive stumbled across lately.

Firstly, a fellow blogger from the UK, Mike Thornton, who is writing on topics relating to Pro tools and the Media industries. You may recognise his name, as Mike is a regularly contributor to Sound on Sound.

http://protoolsformedia.blogspot.com/

Secondly, for those with more of a music focus, the lads from the AIR group are running their own blog specific to those virtual instruments and software tools such as Structure

http://airvirtualinstruments.blogspot.com/

Avid have recently launched their own version of the mighty Digi User Conference, the Avid Community portal. Its great, with tutorial videos, news and a bunch of good people already involved:

http://community.avid.com/

For more Media composer tricks than you can point a stick at, I recommend the Edit Blog

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/

Lastly, Michael Phillips of Avid has had his own site, 24p, up for a long time:

http://www.24p.com/reference.htm

Hope these are of use! More on Structure coming soon, its been a busy week and Im off to LA on Sunday.

Structure for Post I

Structure for Post I

OK, so Structure for Post won the poll, having 25% of the votes. First off, there are two key features for Structure that are great for post production, drag and drop of samples from the timeline to create MIDI patches and secondly support for Surround sound. Check out this video first and I’ll add to it with post examples in my next blog:
Mapping FX in Structure to your keyboard…

Drag and dropping samples into Structure – they MUST be WHOLE FILES is the trick!

What next? (a poll)

What next? (a poll)

Hey everyone,

Just wondering what topics you’d like to see me cover next? Yes! The Blog is “interactive”!!

Custom Fader Group mapping on D-Command in PT8

Custom Fader Group mapping on D-Command in PT8

Hi all!

With the release of PT8, DCommand users can now open plug ins on the channel strips, just like DControl owners. This cool not only for general work in the “Mix window” state, but gives enormous customisation power when you start to map things inside a custom group. Check out the video:

Custom Group Plugin Mapping with PT8 on DCommand

Snapshot automation with ICON

Snapshot automation with ICON

Hi all,

There are a bunch of powerful automation features on ICON that came in with PTHD 7.2, some of which I still haven’t covered. So I’m going to revisit a few of those.
Firstly, lets have a look at the basics of using the Snapshot section on the board. This can be used powerfully with Latch Prime in Stop enabled in your prefs, and there are also modifiers when taking snapshots for different workflows. Take a look:

ICON Snapshot automation from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

Interrogate those busses…

Interrogate those busses…

So, another great little feature for ICON users with the release of PT8 is the ability to see your signal flow on the board, by seeing what channels are routed to the one you are touching or where the channel you are touching is routed too…see the video for details!

PT8 ICON Buss interrogation from Brent Heber on Vimeo.