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Dillon Abell
As far as learning material, this lesson was pretty straight forward. It discusses the beginning of Protools, elaborating on many of the changes and improvements it has gone through over the years to become what it is today. It has come a long way to now be considered the industry standard! After the history of protools, we are walked through what the system requirements are in order to properly run protools. Adequite processing speed, internal memory and maximum storage space are all huge factor that determine if protools will be able to run on your computer. On top of all of these thing there is a lot of thing you need to do in order to optimize your system to run the program as best as it possibly can. These adjustments differ between Mac and PC systems, but are similar in what they are accomplishing. Settings such as battery power allocation, graphic card, drivers, and hand drive optimization are all very important when wanting to run protools. The other section to this lesson was going over the standard Protools file structure. It is important to know why and how all of these files are separated the way that they are. This is because while you are operating protools, as well as after you save, different parts of every session you create are going to be destributed throughout those different folders, and you dont want to lose track of elements to your session! As we have said many times in the Ebook, file management and organization is key to efficient recording. There's no use recording a killer band with a great session if you lose the audio tracks! Lastly in this section we discuss so basic key command. Over time, through the often use of protools I know these key commands will become engrained in my head.
This week I sat at the helm of Allusion Studios, the control room for some good time just to do my best to get a good feel for the program. Ive been search through each tab to see what is hiding, and doing my best to understand as much as I can before starting to use the program full time. Jim has been giving me tracks that he recorded of a latin band for me to practice basic mixing, panning, etc. This has helped a lot for me to grasp the controls and key commands of the program. I have never really been a technologically savvy guy, so to be honest, between all of the musical elements, having a good ear and understanding all of the technical elements of recording (like digital audio, connectivity, etc) all of that is cake compared to learning computers for me. This is something that I will be diligently working on in these next lesson!
