Pro Tools MIDI Editing: Setup

Series Summary

Today’s digital musical equipment and recording software like Pro Tools and GarageBand make it possible to get professional quality recordings from a home recording studio. Some of the most creative and innovative music 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 a home studio and start creating the album of the year today. In this series of free video clips learn how to use Pro Tools recording software to edit MIDI audio tracks. An experienced audio engineer demonstrates MIDI editing controls such as master volume, auxiliary volume and track height. Also learn to use features such as pitch bending and panning. The expert engineer also demonstrates how to erase and edit MIDI tracks. Watch this Pro Tools tutorial and become a better Pro Tools user.

Video Transcript

"What I'm going to be showing you now is how to do some midi editing with external sound modules, and keyboards, and things like that. The first thing you got to do is make sure you got your setup right. So what I'm going to have you do, first make sure you go into your setup, hit edit in midi studio. Now what you want to do, if you have a new configuration, name your configuration and, (let see, new one) create a new device. I have triton hooked up right now, so what I'm going to do is, I'm going to make sure mine is on triton, and apply. Once that's all set, make sure I connect it to my ports. The input is going to be- actually output is going to go into my one, and my input is coming out from my nine. So, maybe, let's see, if I go in my setup again, I have my default configuration. It's like that. Now when I actually play something, it's going to go out of my computer through port nine, into my keyboard, and then back into this auxiliary track right here."