Protools tips
By jonathan | August 19th, 2008 | Category: featured, tutorials |
here are some tips for protools - how to cram more into your session, and a few shortcuts that i use
the first thing is to use a lot of busses.
I usually group all my drum tracks together then fling an aux after it, and route all the outputs of the audio tracks from the drums to the aux chan. that way i can place individual eq on each drum track, and i can set a level for the individual drum tracks, and i can use the aux track to control the total level of the drum kit.
I usually put a reverb on an aux track and set the reverb, then put a send on every track that i want to use that reverb.
I usually have two or three reverb channels per session.
guitars are usually grouped, with an aux after the guitar group - kinda like a sub-master, just like the drums that way I can have one eq for all the guitar tracks for each guitar - it saves on resources.
some nice shortcuts to use
Task Shortcut
Locate cursor to next region-boundary/sync point Tab (if Tab to Transients button is enabled)
Locate cursor to previous region boundary/sync point Control+Tab (if Tab to Transients button is enabled)
Go to and select next region Start+Tab
Go to and select previous region Start+Control+Tab
Go to Song Start Start+Enter
Extend selection to Song Start Shift+Start+Enter
Extend selection to next region-boundary Shift+Tab
Extend selection to previous region-boundary Control+Shift+Tab
Extend selection to include next region Start+Shift+Tab
Extend selection to include previous region Start+Shift+Control+Tab
Return to start of session Enter
Go to end of session Control+Enter
Extend selection to start of session Shift+Enter
Extend selection to end of session Control+Shift+Enter
Link Timeline and Edit selection Shift+Forward Slash (/)
Set selection start/end during playback Down/Up Arrow keys
Set selection start/end to incoming time code while stopped Down/Up Arrow keys
Select entire region in Edit window Double-click with Selector tool
Select entire track in Edit window Triple-click with Selector tool, or single-click in track and press Control+A
Select all regions in all tracks in Edit window Enter, then press Control+A
Extend cursor or selection across all tracks Enable “All” Edit group and Shift-click on any other track
there are thousands more - like holding ALT and scrolling the middle wheel of your mose to zoom
but ill add them as I continue along the lines of protools tips.























