Opening a Pro Tools Session

Series Summary

Today’s digital musical equipment and recording software like Pro Tools and GarageBand have made it possible to get professional quality recordings from your own home recording studio. Some of the most creative and innovative music being produced today is made by those outside the mainstream music industry. With the right combination of quality microphones, amps, instruments and inspiration you can put together your home studio and start creating the album of the year today.

In this series of free video clips you’ll learn how to use your own recording software in your own home. Expert musician and studio engineer RT Ouk shares tips on the various ways you can use Pro Tools. He takes you step-by-step through the process of busing and using other devices you’ll need to start recording your own music. By following the simple steps in these free videos you can build a home recording studio capable of creating professional production quality recordings.

Video Transcript

"Today I'm going to explain pro tools. Pro tools is a platform for recording, you can mix on it, you can record vocals, you can record bands. You can do any type of music production on it, post production and preproduction. Pro tools now a days is getting very cheap. You can buy pro tools for about five hundred dollars for like an M box. Or you can just spend up to like eleven thousand to twenty four thousand on pro tool HD three cards which I have, which actually gives you three separate cards that runs the program so you don't need to use any CPU power. We're going to start off by just starting new session. What you do is as soon as you open pro tools, just go into file and create a new session, and pick your folder that you want to do it in. Then you want to create new session, and press save. It should create it for you."