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Pinnacle Systems Pro Tools - 10.0 Intro to Pro Tools

Intro to Pro Tools
Version 10.0
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Legal Notices
This guide is copyrighted ©2011 by Avid Technology, Inc., (hereafter “Avid”), with all rights reserved. Under copyright laws, this guide may not be duplicated in whole or in part without the written consent of Avid.
Product features, specifications, system requirements, and availability are subject to change without notice.
Guide Part Number 9320-65050-00 REV A 10/11
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Contents

Chapter 1. Welcome to Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Connect Headphones or Speakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Listen to the Demo Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Import a Track from a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Record Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Make a Beat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Composing without a MIDI Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using a Click (Metronome) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Composing with a MIDI Controller/Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Mix and Change Your Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Get Your Music Out to the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Learn More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 2.
Pro Tools
ヘッドフォンまたはスピーカーを接続する . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
デモ・セッションを聴く. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
トラックを
レコーディングする . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
ビートを作成する . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
MIDI
クリック（メトロノーム）を使用する. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
MIDI
サウンドをミックス、変更する . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
あなたの音楽を世界へ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
さらに学ぶ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
へようこそ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
からインポートする . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
CD
コントローラーを使わずに作曲する. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
コントローラー/キーボードを使って作曲する . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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Intro to Pro Tools

Welcome to Pro Tools

Read this guide if you are new to Pro Tools®. This guide provides examples of how to use Pro Tools to record, edit, and mix audio or MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) information.
If you have not yet installed Pro Tools, install Pro Tools according to the instructions in the Pro Tools Installation Guide. For information on connecting your audio hardware and installing drivers for your hardware, consult the documentation that came with your hardware.

Connect Headphones or Speakers

To hear the audio from Pro Tools, connect headphones or speakers to your audio interface.
Example: Connecting a pair of speakers to Mbox
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To adjust volume:
Volume knob
1/4-inch headphone jack
Master volume
1 Adjust your headphone level on your audio interface. For example, on an Mbox, turn the
Volume knob left (counterclockwise) to lower the volume or right (clockwise) to raise the volume.
Example: Mbox front panel connectors and controls
2 Adjust the main monitor level, which sets level for your speakers. For example, on an Mbox,
turn the Master volume left (counterclockwise) to lower the volume or right (clockwise) to raise the volume.
3 Start with a lower level for both your headphone and speaker levels.

Listen to the Demo Session

The Demo Session is a great example of a complete, finished project that has been arranged, edited, and mixed. To get started, you can use the Demo Session included on the Pro Tools Installer disc to see and hear many of the things you’ll soon be doing in Pro Tools. Use the Demo Session to test your headphones and speakers.
To install the demo session:
1 Insert the Pro Tools Installer disc into your DVD drive.
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2 On the Pro Tools Installer disc, locate and open the Additional Files folder.
Toolbar
Track
Ed it wi ndo w
3 Drag and drop the Pro Tools Demo Session folder to your hard drive. 4 Launch Pro Tools by clicking its icon in the Dock (Mac) or double-clicking its icon on your
desktop (Windows).
5 Next, do one of the following depending on what you see on-screen:
• If the Quick Start dialog appears, click Session file, select it, and click
Open Session, then click OK. Navigate to the Demo
Open.
– or –
• If the Quick Start dialog does not appear, choose Demo Session file, select it, and click
Open.
File > Open Session, then navigate to the
Pro Tools opens the session.
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Play and Listen
Stop Play
Stop Play
To play the Demo Session:
1 If your audio interface has a main monitor level control (such as the Master volume on
Mbox), turn the volume down so that you don’t play back audio at an uncomfortably high level. Otherwise, turn the volume down on your monitoring system.
For more information about headphone and monitor connections and volume control on your specific interface, refer to the guide that came with your system.
2 Start playback of the demo session in Pro Tools.
You can start and stop Pro Tools by pressing the Spacebar, or clicking the Play and Stop buttons on-screen. (These buttons are located at the top of the Edit window; you can also have them appear in their own Transport window by choosing
Stop and Play buttons in Edit window (left) and Transport window (right)
3 While the session plays, increase the monitor level to a comfortable listening level.
Window > Transport.)
On Mbox, turn the Master volume clockwise gradually.
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4 Use the zoom and Track view controls to zero in on different tracks.
Vertical
Horizontal
Click to select the Zoomer tool and then drag-select to zoom in. (Double-click the Zoomer tool to zoom back out again)
Click the Track Height selector and choose
a display height
Click the Horizontal an d Vertical Zoom buttons to adjust size and length of what is shown in tracks
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5 Next, click the Window menu and choose Mix (Window > Mix). The Mix window shows tracks
Mix window
Tracks
in vertical channel strips (similar to an analog mixer).
The Edit window and the Mix window are the two main work areas in Pro Tools. Throughout the rest of this guide, you’ll see examples of both windows being used for different types of production work.
6 Press the Spacebar or click the Stop button to stop playback. 7 When you’re through checking out the Demo Session, choose File > Close Session.
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Import a Track from a CD

This section shows your how to create a new Pro Tools session and then import a track from a CD. You can create a new session when you first launch Pro Tools or even after you launch Pro Tools.
To create a new session:
1 Choose File > New Session. If you currently have a session open, you will be prompted to save
any changes.
New Session dialog
2 In the New Session dialog, choose Create Blank Session, then click OK. 3 In the Name the Session dialog, choose where you want to save the session, and then name
it and click
Save.
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4 After Pro Tools opens the new session, choose Window > Edit to display the Edit Window.
Transport window
The Edit window, with the Transport window showing in the foreground
To import a track from CD:
1 Put the source CD into your computer’s CD/DVD drive.
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2 In Pro Tools, choose Window > Workspace to open the Workspace browser.
Workspace browser
Click the speaker icon to audition a selected song; press the Spacebar to stop.
3 In the Workspace browser, click the Audio CD Expand/Collapse icon to show the tracks on
the CD.
4 Click an item (track) to select a song on the CD.
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5 Drag the item from the Workspace to the open area in the middle of the Edit window;
Audio Track
Clip list
Pro Tools creates a new audio track containing the song. The song appears in its new track where you let go of the mouse. The song also appears as a clip in the Clip list.
You can also drag items from the Workspace to the Clip List and then later drag them into the track area. This lets you assemble a collection of audio clips and loops to use later in different tracks or even the same track.
6 Close the Workspace browser, then press the Spacebar to begin playing back the song in
Pro Tools (see “Play and Listen” on page 4).
The Mbox and Mbox Pro interfaces both have a “Multi” button (located on the front panel of the interface) that can be assigned to easily execute several functions in Pro Tools by pressing it two different ways (Press and Release, Press and Hold). For example, you could easily start and stop Pro Tools (as in our example) with the Multi button. For detailed instructions on how to use this feature, see the guide that came with your interface.
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Make an Audio Edit
countoff
song start waveforms
In this example, we’ll do a simple edit to change where a song starts. To show this, let’s begin with a song where the drummer is heard “counting off” the tempo (“1...2...1.2.3...”) before the song starts. Here’s what this song looks like in Pro Tools.
In the picture, the stereo waveforms let you visualize the different sections of the song. We can take advantage of this “what you see is what you hear” aspect of Pro Tools to be able to quickly silence the countoff by “trimming” the beginning of the song.
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To trim:
song start
Trim tool
1 Click to select the Trim tool (located in the toolbar across the top of the Edit window). 2 Click in the track after the countoff and before the start of the song; you’ll see the cursor
display the Trim icon. Drag left or right to fine tune the location.
For future reference, you can also “untrim” the song by dragging the song start back to the left with the Trim tool. You’ll see that the previous audio (the countoff) is still there. This is a small example of how Pro Tools lets you edit non-destructively.
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Record Yourself

Input 1 source selector
Input 1 Mic/Line input
(Front/Rear button)
This section shows how to connect a microphone and record yourself. Once you get comfortable recording with a mic, you can go ahead and record yourself over the track you imported in the last section. In this section, we’ll use an Mbox as the interface.
Connecting a Mic to an Interface
To hook up a microphone:
1 Depending on your Pro Tools audio interface, plug a mic into one of the Mic/Line inputs (or
DI inputs) of your Pro Tools audio interface.
• If your mic has an XLR cable, plug into a Mic/Line input.
– or –
• If your mic has a 1/4-inch cable, plug into a DI input.
Connecting a mic to Mbox with an XLR cable
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2 Depending on your interface, you may need to select its physical input. For an Mbox, if
you're using the XLR connector on the back, press the Front/Rear button until it’s in the “in” position. If your mic has a 1/4-inch cable and you’re using the 1/4-inch connector on the front (one of the two instrument inputs), press the Front/Rear button until it’s in the “out” position. See the guide that came with your system for more information.
Create a Track
Pro Tools tracks are where audio, MIDI and other elements get recorded and edited within a session. Before you can record, you need to create one or more tracks.
To create an audio track and prepare it for recording:
1 Create a new session, or open an existing session. (See “Import a Track from a CD” on
page 7).
2 Choose Track > New. 3 To record from a single mic (as in our example), set the New Tracks dialog for 1 Mono
Audio Track
Creating a new mono audio track
, in Samples, and click Create.
If you want to record both inputs at once, create one or two new tracks depending on what you’ve got plugged in and what you plan to record:
• To record two different sources (such as one vocal mic and one electric guitar), create 2 Mono audio tracks. This lets the two input signals be recorded simultaneously, and be edited, processed, and balanced independently.
– or –
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• To record a two-channel stereo source (such as a stereo keyboard, or the left and right
Audio Input Path selector
outputs from a DJ mixer), create 1 Stereo audio track.
4 Make sure the Mix window is open by choosing Window> Mix. 5 In the middle of the new track’s channel strip, notice where it says “Analog 1 (Mono).” This
shows which Input channel (Input 1 or Input 2) is assigned to this track. (To specify a different Input channel, click the Audio Input Path selector and choose the other channel.)
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Record Your Performance to a Track
Record Enable button
Input 1 Gain (Mbox)
To record an audio track:
1 Click the track’s Record Enable button.
Record enabling a track in the Mix window
2 Choose Track > Input Only Monitoring. This lets you listen to your incoming signal so you can
“set your levels.”
3 Sing or play into the mic. Watch the meter level in the Pro Tools track while you raise the
input gain on your Pro Tools audio interface. (Don’t move the on-screen fader to try and adjust your input level because it isn’t going to have any affect; It’s only for adjusting your listening level.) Turn the gain up until you see the on-screen track meter show green most of the time, or yellow for louder passages.
If the track meter shows red, gain is too high; lower the gain.
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If you barely see green in the track meter, gain is too low; raise the gain.
Track meter
RecordReturn to Zero
4 In the toolbar (or in the Transport window) click the Return to Zero button to jump back
to the start of th e session, then click the Rec ord b utto n. This tell s Pro Tool s th at you’re happy with your levels and are ready to record. Think of this as a “master” record enable button.
5 Choose Window > Edit so you can watch what happens when you record.
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6 When you are ready to start recording, click Play or press the Spacebar. To stop, press the
Spacebar or click Stop. Here’s what Pro Tools looks like after a track has been recorded and the transport has been stopped.
Recording a vocal track
If you want to use a click track/metronome, see “Using a Click (Metronome)” on page 26.
Listen to Y ou r Recording
To play back a recorded track:
1 Click the track’s Record Enable button again to take it out of Record mode. 2 Click Play in the Transport window or press the Spacebar to start playback. 3 When you want to stop, press the Spacebar or click Stop.
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Record More Tracks
To record another track:
1 Choose Track > New and create 1 Mono audio track. 2 Choose Track > Auto Input Monitoring. 3 In the new audio track, click its Input path selector and choose the same input (In 1) you
used before.
4 Next, click the track’s Record Enable button, just like you did on the first track. 5 In the Transport window, click the Return to Zero button to jump back to the start of the
session, then click the Record button (the button flashes) to arm Pro Tools for recording. When you are ready to start recording, click Play or press the Spacebar.
6 Press the Spacebar again to stop playback.
Hard drives are one of the most important components of your Pro Tools system. For best performance, Avid recommends using an external hard drive for Pro Tools recording.
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Make a Beat

This section shows you how to work with Xpand!2, a plug-in you can use to make beats and compose music.
The Xpand!2 Virtual Instrument Plug-In
Xpand!2 is a virtual instrument plug-in, which means it makes sound. Xpand!2 is part of the Avid Virtual Instruments plug-ins that comes free with Pro Tools. Xpand! Avid Virtual Instruments installer. This installer is available on the Pro Tools Installer disc and online from www.avid.com. For more information, see the Audio Plug-ins Guide.
Here’s how to start utilizing its many drum kits, basses, strings, keyboards, horns, sound effects and other sounds.
You can add all sorts of plug-ins to your system. Instrument plug-ins (like Xpand!2) make sound. Processing plug-ins (such as those for reverb, EQ and compression) change your sound.For more information on your plug-ins, see the Audio Plug-Ins Guide. This guide is installed automatically during Pro Tools installation. A PDF only copy is available from within Pro Tools: Help > Audio Plug-Ins Guide.
Set Up a Track
You add Xpand!2 to your sessions by inserting it on a specific type of track called an Instrument track.
To create a Instrument track for beats and composition:
1 Choose Track > New. 2 In the New Track dialog, click the pop-up menu that says Mono and choose Stereo, then click
the pop-up menu that shows as they are and click
Audio Track and choose Instrument Track. Leave the other settings
Create.
2
is installed with the
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Creating a stereo Instrument track
Xpand!
2
Insert selector
3 Choose Window > Mix to display the Mix window. 4 Click the track Insert selector near the top of the Instrument track and choose Xpand!
from the Instrument sub-menu.
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5 Now let’s load a sound. Click the Librarian menu (<factory default>) and choose a preset from
Click the Librarian menu to see the list of presets, then choose an item from a sub-menu.
the Loops sub-menu. Presets are pre-configured settings files, and they’re a great way to see examples of what a plug-in can do.
6 Make music by doing one of the following:
• If you have a MIDI controller connected, you can record yourself playing Xpand! For more information see “Composing with a MIDI Controller/Keyboard” on page 29.
– or –
• Create MIDI notes using the mouse. To see an example of how you can compose without a MIDI controller, “Composing without a MIDI Controller” on page 23.
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Composing without a MIDI Controller

Pencil tool
Selecting Bars|Beats
You can make beats and compose in Pro Tools using just the mouse.
To create a note:
1 Close or move the Xpand!
Instrument track in the Edit window.
2 Click to select the Pencil tool (located in the toolbar across the top of the Edit window).
3 Select View > Rulers > Bars:Beats to add the Bars|Beats ruler. 4 Click the Ruler View selector to select Bars|Beats.
Ruler View selector in the Edit window
5 In the Edit window, select Grid from the Edit mode buttons.
Grid mode enabled
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plug-in window, then choose Window > Edit so you can see the
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