Lesson 1: Home Studio Fundamentals

• Introduction to Pro Tools
• Installing Pro Tools and the Textbook's DVD contents
• The Pro Tools Interface
• Session Templates
• Studio Setup
• Setting Up Your Listening Environment
• Signal Flow
• Gain Stages
• I/O Setup
• Types of Tracks
• Creating a New Session in Pro Tools
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Creating a New Session with Five Tracks

Lesson 2: Recording a New Idea

• Tracks and Regions
• Recording Audio
• Groups
• Playlists
• Timebase Rulers and Conductor Rulers
• Click Tracks
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Discussion: The Production Process

Lesson 3: Pro Tools Recording Techniques

• Setting Recording Levels
• Sample Rate and Bit Depth
• Sound Wave Fundamentals
• Deeper into Sampling
• Sampling and Anti-Aliasing
• Quantizing and Coding
• Hard Drive Space Requirements
• Disk Allocation
• Session Parameters
• Buffer Settings and Latency Times
• The Basics of Microphones and Microphone Techniques
• Pro Tools Preferences
• Importing Audio and Session Data
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: The Ultimate Recording

Lesson 4: Recording: Busses, Playlists, and More

• Balance: The Art of Producing and Recording Your Own Music
• Memory Locations and Markers
• Window Configurations and Arrangements
• Using Inserts
• The Basics of Effects Loops
• Headphones and Headphone Mixes
• Bouncing Down Your Final Tracks and Making an MP3
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Recording Project

Lesson 5: Editing Tools, Edit Modes, and Crossfades

• Overview of Editing in Pro Tools
• The Editing Tools
• The Edit Modes
• Special Edit Window Buttons
• Fades and Crossfades
• The Roles of Producer and Engineer in Editing
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Creating a Loop of All Tracks in a Session

Lesson 6: Pro Tools Editing Features and Techniques (Part 1)

• Working with Tracks, Regions, and Selections
• Waveform Identification
• Creative Editing
• Nudging
• Some Cool Editing Features in Pro Tools
• Track Compositing (Comping)
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Applying Editing Techniques

Lesson 7: Pro Tools Editing Features and Techniques (Part 2)

• Using Groups and Region Groups for Editing
• Using Memory Locations and Markers for Editing
• Identifying the Beat
• Digital Editing (Editing Spoken Word)
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Editing a Voiceover Track

Lesson 8: Preparing Edited Audio Tracks for Mixdown

• Automation
• Using AudioSuite Plug-ins for Editing
• Elastic Audio
• Post-Editing Cleanup and Managing Regions, Part 1
• Post-Editing Cleanup and Managing Regions, Part 2
• The Flow and Balance of Editing
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Digital Editing Project

Lesson 9: Setting Up Your MIDI Studio and Recording MIDI

• The Basics of MIDI
• Setting Up MIDI in Your Studio--Hardware and Software Connections
• Using MIDI in Pro Tools
• Recording MIDI Data
• Using MIDI Channels
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Creating a MIDI Drum Loop

Lesson 10: MIDI Editing and the Producer's Role in Preproduction

• Similarities and Differences Between Editing Audio and MIDI in Pro Tools
• The Editing Tools: MIDI Functionality
• The Edit Modes: MIDI Functionality
• Cutting, Copying, Pasting, and Clearing MIDI Data
• Region Groups, Loops, and Mirrored MIDI Editing
• MIDI Editor Window
• Defining an Artist's Purpose, Image, and Identity
• The Producer's Role in Preproduction: Potential Marketing Demographics
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• What is Sysex?
• Assignment: MIDI Editing

Lesson 11: Creating Great MIDI Tracks Using Quantization and Other MIDI Editing Operations

• Quantizing a MIDI Track
• MIDI Editing: Altering Data in MIDI Operations Window and the Event List
• Production Values: Creating a Great MIDI Track
• The Producer's Role in Preproduction: Writing and Rewriting
• MIDI Score Editor
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Modeling a Real Drum Loop with MIDI

Lesson 12: MIDI Production Techniques: Creating Real-Sounding MIDI Parts

• Utilizing MIDI Learn
• Bass
• Guitar
• Keyboard Instruments
• Sweetening Instruments
• Orchestral Instruments, Samples, Sound Effects, and Additional Percussion
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Assignment: Humanize the Hammond B3

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