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- #Do slate digital plugins work with pro tools hd software#
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*Note for Pro Tools LE users: You need to put the ‘bounce’ track in Record Ready, and Input Only monitoring should be selected. I do activate the ‘I’ (Input Only) button next to the ‘R’ (Record) button so I can hear the entire mix. A new audio track is created afterwards and put in Record Mode and picks up busses 3 – 4 and records the audio signal coming from its input. I Solo Safe these Aux Input tracks by holding command+click (MAC) or windows+click (PC). For example the aux input track picks up busses 1 – 2, and its outputs is routed to busses 3 – 4. Instead of routing your stereo mixdown to the outputs 1 – 2 you route them to separate busses (Any available). You won’t have this problem when ‘freezing’ tracks.Īnother advantage over ‘Bounce To Disk’ is that you can record all your stems at once instead of doing this stem by stem. Therefore your mix will sound slightly different and a bit rough around the edges when using the ‘Bounce To Disk’ function within Pro Tools. Also the Pro Tools mixer works in 48 bit, bouncing this data to disk would occur in the problem that Pro Tools needs to truncate to 24 bit or even worse (when working) in 16 bit (!!!). On top of that puts bouncing tracks less load on your system than if you’d ‘Bounce To Disk’ for instance. Instant recall at a glance of your finger tips!!! By making those bounced tracks inactive in Pro Tools you can always go back in time and make adjustments to those individual tracks. By erasing your bounced tracks you lost them forever. The advantage of doing this in Pro Tools nowadays than on tape, is that it is not destructive as it was back in the day. Instead of having a physical button for freezing tracks, you record these in a similar way as the analogue tape days to a new audio track and making the ‘bounced’ tracks ‘inactive’ as if you erased them on the tape machine, freeing up additional voices and processing power (CPU or TDM). To get back to the point of my blog post freezing tracks in Pro Tools. Personally I run all my sessions with a bit rate of 24 96kHz. But keep in mind that Aux Input Tracks do not eat up any voice(s)!!! Running at 48kHz, you’ll have a 192 Multi Track Recorder, running at 96kHz you’ll have a 96 Multi Track Recorder, and on 192kHz you’ll have a 24 Track machine. *Note: Set DAE buffer size to 4 for 192 sample rate. You can see Pro Tools HD as a multi track recorder and its sample rate as the type of machine.
#Do slate digital plugins work with pro tools hd free#
At any given point in the recording process, any number of existing tracks can be “bounced” into one or two available tracks and then erasing the original tracks, making more room for more tracks to be reused for fresh recording, or in computer recording to free up more ‘voices’ and processing power (CPU or TDM). Let me give you more information about this ‘bounce’ technique which will clarify its parallel in todays working with Pro Tools as audio sequencer (recorder). Legendary Beatles producer George Martin used a bouncing technique which we can identify now as the early beginnings of the famous ‘freeze’ function in our MIDI sequencers. Despite the fact that you could sync several machines together in a chain, it would still not really give you a solution. As you can imagine running a tape machine with only 4 tracks or 8 would be a big challenge as recording engineer.
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Not such a big problem if you don’t print any stems or single instruments, but what did the recording engineers do? They needed to record every single instrument to a different track. Usually in different versions like ‘Main Mix’, ‘Instrumental’, ‘T.V. Whenever mix engineers are satisfied with their final mix, they will go ahead and proceed to print the mix. Best known examples are the ½”, ¾”, 1” and 2” tapes and 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 and 48 track machines. Which, again, came in different types, sorts, and brands. Now we have that clear lets dig a little into the history of the process of recording audio and its audio recording devices.īack in the day when we were in the pre- pro tools days everything got recorded to tape.
#Do slate digital plugins work with pro tools hd software#
I won’t dig deeper into the entire structure of the differences software programming wise. Let me first off correct every one with the common mistake of comparing Pro Tools which is a high definition audio recorder, with MIDI sequencers such as Cubase, Logic and so on and the answer has already been given -). Quite a lot of times I ran into the discussion when two assistant engineers argue about the fact that there’s no (physical button) freeze function within Pro Tools, meanwhile there is for native sequencers such as Cubase, Logic, and so on.