Is it possible to record from a mixer to a computer? Yes, it is absolutely possible to record audio from a mixer into your computer. As a general rule, you will want to use an audio interface, but Skip to content. Step 1. Group the drum tracks together for editing. Step 3. Drag your first take into the first playlist position Make sure you have all your drum tracks selected together, or your drum edit group enabled from step 1.
Step 4. Prepare to record your next take Now with your tracks armed for record again, you can record the whole song again or just one particular section of the song. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Punch in a good section from another playlist Move the cursor to the playlist with the good take and highlight the section you want to punch in.
Step 9. Step Open the Automation Enable window and deactivate all the automation types except 'Plug-in' this is very important, because if you leave the other types active, you will mess up all the other mix data.
Highlight the track from where you want the new settings to start until the point at which you want them to revert to their previous settings.
Finally, delete the audio from the tracks and you're ready to go. Now turn the automation back on for the track. If you click before, during, and after the area you highlighted, you will see all the parameters jump to their new settings. You can also 'slope' the changes between these parameter settings by editing the automation points to ramp from one 'program change' into another. This is another major time-saver in difficult circumstances.
It's a very powerful and useful extension of Import Track, allowing you to import a track from another Session into your current Session, including the audio itself, plus edits, plug-in settings and routing. Import Track is still the only option for LE users, even though the Menu item is called Import Session Data, but TDM users can pick and choose which elements of a track's data they want to import into a Session.
I use it a lot for bringing in a set of tracks that I have configured in a Session for one song into another one without bringing the audio or automation data across. Another way I use this trick is when bringing a group of tracks from a template Session into a working Session.
I also use it to move multiple plug-ins and their settings from one Session to another, as I can do it in one go. The Import Session Data dialogue provides a hugely powerful way to incorporate track data from one Session into another, provided you're using a TDM system.
Go to the File menu and select Import Session Data, then navigate to the Session you want to get some track data from. Determine whether you require new tracks or want to add data to existing tracks, then use the pull-down menu list for each track to select New Track or to choose which track in the destination Session you would like to add some track data to from the source Session. From the drop-down menu at the bottom of the Import Session Data window, you can select which types of Session data will be imported.
This will be the same for new tracks and existing modified tracks in the current import — if you want to import different combinations of Session data for different tracks, you need to revisit the Import Session Data option and configure it for each different combination of Session data types from this list.
You can also determine if media will be referenced to the source Session, or copied. My advice is to copy, as there is always a risk with 'borrowed' material that the source Session might get deleted or moved, thus losing you the 'borrowed data' without warning. Finally, click on the OK button and watch the data fly into your Session.
If you have Sessions where you didn't, or weren't able to, use the new Playlist creation option, all is not lost. If there are no Playlists on a track, you'll see a miniature empty comp lane under the master track when you select Playlist view. You can drag audio from the Region List into this small area under the main Playlist and Pro Tools will create a new comp lane for it. You can resize the comp lanes and the master Playlist together by clicking on the line between one of the lanes and dragging it up or down.
You can also click on the vertical scale in the normal place and select from the contextual menu: again, all the comp lanes and the master Playlist will resize together. When auditioning each segment of each take to determine the best ones, it's often handy to write down a rating scheme to try and put some sort of quantitive value on each segment. Pro Tools 8 lets you do this without mucking about with paper and pencils, because Digidesign have incorporated a rating system — which is, of course, saved with the Session.
Digidesign haven't decided for you whether one or five is the best — you choose! You can even apply a Rating on the fly during loop recording using this shortcut, as long as you do it before the take has finished.
You can also display this rating scheme in the Regions by selecting Rating in the Regions submenu in the View menu Ratings can be displayed within Regions. Once you've rated all your takes or Regions, you can choose not to see the duff ones. Pro Tools will now only show comp lanes that contain at least one Region rated three or higher. If your rating scheme works the other way round, you can hide lanes rated higher than a threshold value instead!
For instance, if you loop recorded around the first verse until you were happy, then did the same for the chorus, and so on, you might end up with lots of Playlists, most of which were empty at any given point. These options allow you to see only the comp lanes that have Regions within whichever section of the Session is defined by the edit selection.
All the team at Digidesign HQ have to be congratulated for developing such an excellent new comping feature — enjoy! This is another area that has been sorted out in Pro Tools 8. Digidesign have added a Quick Start window that appears when Pro Tools has finished booting up, and they have also consolidated the templates into a dedicated location inside the Pro Tools folder in the Digidesign folder in your Applications folder.
When you select Open New Session, the window changes and offers you the usual settings to create a new Session from scratch.
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