This video shows how to make a Fade In or Fade Out on MIDI/Instrument tracks in Pro Tools, plus I cover a bunch of other automation tips.
Drawing a Fade is simple with Audio, but different when using MIDI. Your first option is to Commit or Record your VI to an Audio track and draw your fade in that way.
If you want to stay in the MIDI realm, then you will want to draw in your fade with the Pencil Tool on the Audio Volume automation lane of your Instrument Track or Volume Lane of your AUX Track (depending on how you are hosting your VI's).
You also have the option to Write In the Fade by controlling the fader on your track with WRITE mode enabled.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Pro Tools - Creative Uses for Pan and Volume Automation w/the Pencil Tool
In this video we look at some basic ideas you need to know about automation with the pencil tool in Pro Tools and how we can use these ideas in a creative way.
Pro Tools COMMIT TRACK WITH MIDI - New in PT 12.3
In this video we take a quick look at the new COMMIT feature in Pro Tools 12.3
COMMIT will allow you to quickly render effects/instruments to audio in a fast and efficient way. COMMIT works with Audio and MIDI tracks, however, in this video we focus on the MIDI aspect.
I find this feature to be indispensable and I've only been using 12.3 for 2 days! It's a huge time saver and it works flawlessly. When you are running several virtual instruments in a session, your computer can start to slow down and throw errors. This is a huge problem when you still have much more work to do and you need to add more virtual instruments. In the past when you started getting clicks and pops and you had already maxed out your buffer, you would need to bus your VI's to an audio track and record the audio and then make the VI tracks inactive.
With COMMIT, you can make Pro Tools do all the heavy lifting for you, and it can do it in faster than real time. So this means when your audio starts glitching out on you - simply COMMIT a few tracks and make those VI's INACTIVE, and quickly get back to being creative. As long as you do not delete the Source Tracks, you can always go back later on and make any changes you want to your Virtual Instrument and then COMMIT it again. Or use COMMIT for other types of workflows, like for sampling, backup, session sharing, or if you just like working with audio instead of MIDI.
COMMIT will allow you to quickly render effects/instruments to audio in a fast and efficient way. COMMIT works with Audio and MIDI tracks, however, in this video we focus on the MIDI aspect.
I find this feature to be indispensable and I've only been using 12.3 for 2 days! It's a huge time saver and it works flawlessly. When you are running several virtual instruments in a session, your computer can start to slow down and throw errors. This is a huge problem when you still have much more work to do and you need to add more virtual instruments. In the past when you started getting clicks and pops and you had already maxed out your buffer, you would need to bus your VI's to an audio track and record the audio and then make the VI tracks inactive.
With COMMIT, you can make Pro Tools do all the heavy lifting for you, and it can do it in faster than real time. So this means when your audio starts glitching out on you - simply COMMIT a few tracks and make those VI's INACTIVE, and quickly get back to being creative. As long as you do not delete the Source Tracks, you can always go back later on and make any changes you want to your Virtual Instrument and then COMMIT it again. Or use COMMIT for other types of workflows, like for sampling, backup, session sharing, or if you just like working with audio instead of MIDI.
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