Pro Tools Automation Tips

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Part of the video series: Pro Tools Mixing Tips: Automation

Summary: Pro Tools automation is a feature that allows the user to set an automatic change to a track that occurs in real time as the track is being played. Automate any feature of any audio track with this Pro Tools mixing feature from a recording expert in this free instructional video.

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By R.T. Ouk
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R.T. Ouk has been a music producer and audio engineer for more than 10 years. He owns The Armory Recording Studios and heads New Day Productions, which has worked on soundtracks and...read more

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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 free music recording video on mixing audio tracks in Pro Tools, a professional music engineer demonstrates how to fine tune an audio track. Learn how to delete, draw and send automation information to other auxiliary inputs in Pro Tools. Adjust audio tracks using muting, panning and volume automation settings in the mix and edit windows. Make better recordings with the tips in the music software lesson and soon the major labels could take notice. Many of the tracks on the radio were created or mixed using Pro Tools.

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"Now on this section I'll be really speaking to you about automations, on sends and different things like that as well as the CPU limit. Now a lot of people, they don't have this amazing computers that can hold anything. Now there's a lot of different tricks as far as the playback engine and things to free of space and different things as far as like the way your track is set up as far as using whatever you want audio file that kind of eliminating extra stuff that can help free of your CPU and let's you, you know, like use your equipment the way that you want to use it as far as being able to apply as many sends as you want and using right amount of inserts and not, you know, limiting your mixes to just what you can or what your computer will allow you to do. Now when doing this, there's a lot of different things as far as like automation, things like that, that will also help your, your tracks. Now when using automation, it takes a lot of CPU power to be able to just, you know, record the volume and things like that, so you're going to make sure that you follow, you pay attention to different things that can free of your space that, so you can allow yourself to have this prodigies such as automation."