Pro Tools Courses for beginners and advanced students.

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PRO TOOLS LEVEL 1 AND 2

Pro Tools has become the standard DAW for most professional Recording Studios and the leader of the Music and Recording Industry for a reason. This course is open for musicians, producers, sound-engineers and everyone who wishes to explore this Software in depth, as well as the world of Music Production, Recording and Mixing.

During Level 1 Course, we will explore in depth all the main functions inside ProTools.
Including from basic tasks such as creating and organizing projects, to the use of advanced editing tools and how to carry on recording and mixing sessions with fluency, in order to save you lots of time.
Throughout this course I will propose a clear and direct method to use this software as a professional, understanding and knowing all of its functions.

Level 2 (advanced) is designed for everyone who has a solid base in this software and wishes go deeper in its more complex functions and tools.

During this course we will study intermediate and advanced functions inside Pro Tools.

Tasks that are employed during the mixing and advanced audio editing processes, such as the use of FX, sends, returns, automation, elastic audio, beat detective, routings and groups, midi editing and advanced midi functions, between many other tools.

These courses are meant to be practical and interactive, and not just about accumulating information. Once enrolled you will be able to get in touch directly to address all your questions and doubts, and also to present your exercises if you are interested in receiving some feedback.
You will also get access to the Students Community, where we are constantly sharing new material about Music Production and Composition, articles, extra videos, open live streams (for free). It is also a great place to address your questions and be in touch.

Reviews about my courses

I just finished the first level of Pro Tools and I wanted to congratulate you on the order of the course, the amount of information, how clear the videos are and the closing exercises of each lesson to get down to work. I'm already starting the second.... it seems to me that this course is going to be the first of many.... !!!

Leonardo Martín

Excellent course, topics and manner of dictation. The classes are very entertaining which facilitates the understanding of the given topics. Super recommended Gonza's courses !!! 😊

Cristián Andrés

PRO TOOLS, LEVEL 1 (beginners)

Lesson 1

Why using Pro Tools?
Digital vs Analog Audio
Characteristics of Digital Audio: AD / DA Conversion, Sample Rate, Resolution
Turning on your system
First Tour inside Pro Tools: creating new sessions
The Session Folder
Mix and Edit Windows
Transport, Track List, Toolbar and Pop-up menus
Pro Tools Preferences and other important setups
Exercise 1: Drums Session

Lesson 2

Tracks vs Clips
Editing Tools: Zoomer, Trim, Selector, Grabber, Smart Tool, Scrubber, Pencil
Editing Modes: Slip, Shuffle, Spot, Grid (Absolute and Relative), Snap to Grid
Edit Window: how to navigate across our session
Zoom functions
Playback techniques
Keyboard shortcuts
Exercise 2: Editing modes

Lesson 3

Creating new tracks
Track types
Audio, MIDI, Instrument, Aux Input and Master Fader tracks
Tracks displays and visualization functions
Working with Edit and Playback cursors
Working with the Main Counter
Saving projects and back-ups
Exercise 3: Preparing session for recording

Lesson 4

Setting up Hardware for recording
Setting up your Audio Interface inside Pro Tools
Recording Audio: preparing tracks to record
Good habits before beginning to record
The recording process
Pro Tools recording techniques: Normal Rec, Destructive Rec, Quick Punch, recording selections, recording with a count-off
MIDI Controls functions
Working with click tracks
After recording: how to clean the Clip List
Recoding several tracks simultaneously
Exercise 4: Audio recording

Lesson 5

Setting up the Monitoring level and other important recording functions
Working with Playlists
Loop recording mode
MIDI Signal
MIDI vs Instrument tracks
Working with a Grid and setting up the session tempo
Samples based vs Tick based tracks
Virtual Instruments in Pro Tools
Setting up Virtual Instruments
MIDI recording techniques
Exercise 5: Loop Recording

Lesson 6

Audio formats: Native vs External
What things can be imported to a session?
File conversions
Importing techniques: Import Audio, Workspace, Drag and Drop
Using the Workspace
Importing audio to the current session tempo
Importing Video
Tips for working with Video
Importing MIDI
Exercise 6: Import Audio

Lesson 7

Selection techniques
Visual vs Aural vs Numerical selections
How to work with selections?
Edling tasks: extending and moving selections
Track List: organizing our session. Functions inside the Track List.
More about session organization: Color coding techniques
Zoom tools, part 2
Working with Rulers
Making changes inside the Rulers
Using Markers
Introduction to Memory Locations
Exercise 7: Markers and session Organization

Lesson 8

Playback functions
Working with clips: techniques for moving things around
Editing techniques: creating, joining and modifying clips
Placing new clips
Editing functions for cleaning tracks: trim, delete, strip silence
Working with Fades
Smart Tool and Fades window
Undo actions
Exercise 8: cleaning tracks

Lesson 9

Organizing our project: the Mix Window
Setting up inputs and outputs
Working with Inserts
Inserts: additional functions
Plugin lindo
Digital / Plugins vs Analog / External Inserts
Real Time vs Offline processing
Working with Audio Suite
Additional functions: Freeze, Commit, Bounce
How to export our final mix
Exercise 9: Mixing a Song

PRO TOOLS, LEVEL 2 (advanced)

Lesson 1

Review of the main functions of Pro Tools: Mix and Edit Windows, Transport, Main Counter, Track List, Group List, Rulers, Pop-up menus, MIDI Controls, Expanded Transport

Editing Modes

Editing Tools

Working with Templates

Importing Data and files from other sessions

Plugins categories and Mixing processors

Exercise 1: Importing Audio and DATA

Lesson 2

Inserts vs Sends

Working with internal buses

Sends, Returns and Buses

Techniques for working with Sends

Send Window and additional functions

Hardware / External vs Software / Plugins Sends

Creating Headphone mixes

Working with Sub-mixes

Exercise 2: Sends

Lesson 3

Setting up your MIDI System

Instrument vs MIDI tracks

MIDI recording techniques

Step Input

MIDI editing techniques

Working with the MIDI Editor

Working with MIDI tracks in the Edit Window

Changing key, transposing notes and additional MIDI functions
Exercise 3: MIDI recording and editing

Lesson 4

Ticks vs Samples

MIDI Quantizing techniques: Input Quantize, Quantize menu, Real Time Properties

How to work with Real Time Properties

Quantization adjustments and additional functions

Elastic Audio: applying time compression and expansion

Elastic Audio plugins

Working with Analysis and Warp views

Clip sensitivity and Elastic Properties

Warping techniques: telescopic, accordion, range warp

What to do after Warp?

Exercise 4: Elastic Audio

Lesson 5

Changing tempo of audio tracks

Import Audio to current session tempo

Audio quantization techniques

Creating a Tempo Map

Identify Beat function

Tempo changes and Tempo Operations

Memory Locations: Markers, Selections and others

Introduction to Beat Detective

Exercise 5: Markers and Tempo Map

Lesson 6

Exercise 6: Automations
What are automations?
Real Time vs Graphic Automations
Automation techniques
Editing tools for automations
Common problems for Real Time and Graphic automations
Automating plugin parameters
Real Time automation modes: when and how to use them?
Working with the Automation Window
Additional editing of automations
Updating volume automations

Lesson 7

Working with Groups: create, delete and modify Groups

Group types and main characteristics of each one

Groups, Elastic Audio and Automations

VCA Master tracks

Groups vs VCA vs Sub-Mixes

I/O settings: adding, modifying and deleting internal inputs, outputs and buses

Creating our own I/O Setup

Saving, exporting, importing and reseting I/O setups

Setting up Audition paths and Output Buses

Exercise 7: Mixing a Song

Lesson 8

Techniques for working with the Clip List

Finding, selecting, deleting and exporting clips

Working with Clip Groups

Working with Fades

Editing Fades and additional options of the Fades window

Keyboard focus: using our keyboard for advanced editing tasks

Beat Detective: clips quantizing, groove extraction and tempo analysis for different tracks simultaneously

Exercise 8: Beat Detective

Lesson 9

Session organization: saving window configurations

Working with Window Configurations and Memory Locations

Back-up techniques

Using the Save Copy In function

Bouncing techniques: Bounce to Disk vs Bounce to Track

Bouncing MIDI / Instrument tracks inside your session

Additional functions for Bouncing: Freeze, Commit, Bounce

Getting Help in Pro Tools

Exercise 9: Multiple Choice

Take more than one course and get a special discount!

What is the fee?

For 1 course (level 1 or level 2):

USD 96 (-12% Off) ~~Before~~ ~~USD 109~~

For 2 courses (level 1 and level 2):

USD 139 (-37% Off). ~~Before USD 218~~

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