Lesson 16 - Posted on 2013-05-31 by Vanessa Agosto

 May 28, close to 4 hours

This week's lesson wasn't very technical so I got a chance to ask ProTools questions. Some of the points we covered: printing tracks (into audio) helps save processor, instrument tracks are really a combination of a stereo aux track and a MIDI track, Steve showed me again where ther volume automation control is located (under "volume", in the column under the track name), some of the MIDI editor control features with the different color schemes (for if you want to see several tracks at once in different colors, or if you want to see different note volumes with the monochromatic shades), how to change the track and waveform colors, track list orders for a song (drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, strings, other stuff, vocals), what an audio stem is (the track waveform) and how easily they can be lost, what "pads" are (the whooshing background effect), grid versus slip mode (which I'd completely forgotten about), seeing Audio suite veri-fi in action again, etc.

Steve showed us how to put a song on the grid in order to do our latest assignment, which is taking me a while and is really exciting: we're duplicating songs, track by track. It's been really challenging thus far. I hope what I've done so far can get me an internship - I have a group interview next week, crazy.