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valuable screen space if you are not using Edit Groups), click on the
show/hide button in the bottom left corner of the Edit window.
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INSERTING TIME
Sometimes you will want to move all the regions in one or more
tracks forward in time by essentially inserting time. Like most
professional software, ProTools provides a number of ways to
accomplish a certain task. For example, selecting all the regions
after a certain point and simply dragging them to the right is one
way of doing this.
A more elegant way is to use the Insert Silence command,
which is located at the bottom of the Edit menu. This command
behaves differently depending upon the editing mode that is active
when it is selected. For example, highlighting part of a region while
the Slip mode is active will simply replace that part of the region
with silence, making a new, smaller region.
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Make sure that all tracks have the selection. You will need to
Shift click the tracks in order to ensure this.
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INSERTS
To create an insert in the Edit window, you must have the
insert view area displayed in the tracks. In the Display menu, select
Edit Window Shows, then Inserts View.
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The plug-ins name will appear in the insert area of the track
and the plug-in itself will appear in a new window.
You can now adjust the settings in the plug-in, and you can
hear the alterations while you play. Remember, the processes occur
in real time, and no alteration is made to the original file (this is
known as non-destructive editing). Because of its real-time nature,
some processes, such as time expansion, will not be available.
It is also possible to automate parameter settings of inserts.
This concept will be discussed later in this lab.
AUXILIARY SENDS
Making the Auxiliary Bus
In ProTools, you need to create the auxiliary buses and make all the
connections.
First, create the auxiliary track. Under the File menu, select
New Track, which will bring up the New Track dialogue box:
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There are sixteen possible buses: which one will you use?
The Edit window should now display the connection of
Send 1 to bus 1:
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The auxiliary window, showing the level sent from the track to
the auxiliary bus.
Now you have created the auxiliary bus and have the ability
to send a signal to it.
Note that the automation menu for the audio track now has an
additional view/control:
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The plug-in window that will get a signal from the auxiliary
send.
Now you have inserted a plug-in to the auxiliary track. When
you play your session, you will now hear the output of the plug-in.
Note that you will hear both the original audio track and the
auxiliary track, unlike the case when you inserted the process
directly in the track. In many cases, the processing done in the
auxiliary track will not be apparent because it will be masked by
the original (filtering, for example).
In these cases, you only want to hear the auxiliary track and
not the original signal. While you can mute the audio track by
pressing the mute button, you have effectively lost control over that
track. And if you set the output to zero via an automation envelope,
you have also lost your auxiliary send.
Thats because the default setting for the bus send is post
fader. This means that the signal sent to the auxiliary bus follows
the tracks volume fader. What you want, in this case, is to send the
signal before the volume fader so that you can control the original
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signal via the volume fader and the amount sent to the process via
the auxiliary send level.
To do this, select pre, instead of post, in the bus window,
shown below.
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