Automation is an effective way to add interest to your productions in Pro Tools. Being able to alter volume, panning and plug-in controls will allow you to truly sculpt an engaging piece of music.
Become a master of distortion, and better still, the distortion effects plug-ins you'll find in the box with Avid's Pro Tools! Joe Albano gives you a tour of these with audio examples to boot.
Powered by Avid Everywhere, the new S6 is a modern intuitive touch-based interface designed to enable audio professionals to easily handle the largest, most complex tours and events.
If you use Pro Tools and are keen on your monophonic synths, then you'll find Vacuum a rather fun virtual-tube style synth. Joe Albano shows how to make an edgy bass sound.
Being a power Pro Tools user means you have to get your head around the shortcuts. Joe Albano takes us to the next level of Pro Tools greatness showing how the Option and Shift keys can be utilized.
There's not many (any?) virtual instruments with an exclamation mark in their name. But that's not the reason Xpand!2 sample playback/synth deserves your attention. Joe Albano takes you deep into it.
One of the favorite pastimes of many musicians and producers is to compare their DAWs features to another. Doing so you may find yours isn't so different for audio editing, for example, after all.
The HBO documentary series, Foo Fighters Sonic Highways, deployed Avid MediaCentral Platform for fast, collaborative workflows to manage huge volumes of footage to tight timescales.
New Pro Tools Licensing Available Now, Giving Customers Access to Future Cloud Features and Software Upgrades through March 2016. Is this value added? Read on to find out.
This Eucon compatible control surface works with Pro Tools and other major DAWs, includes a customisable layout, integrated I/O and pretty screens for feedback. The S3 looks the part.
What can you do when you want, or need, to bring something from one Pro Tools session to another? Joe Albano explores how to share between sessions in this must-know article.
Perhaps the most surprising news this month is that Apogee Electronics have been chosen as Avid I/O Connectivity Partner offering Pro Tools | Duet and Pro Tools | Quartet Audio Solutions for Mac & PC.
Whether you think about it or not, working with tempo is something you're doing every time you work in Pro Tools. Here are 4 excellent tempo tips to help you stay in time in your sessions.
If you're switching between DAWs frequently, or migrating a project to Pro Tools, you can customise the playhead and selection behaviors, so you'll always feel comfortable when editing.
Grab your guitar, launch Pro Tools and get the Eleven plug-in on screen now! Joe Albano takes us through 5 meaty tips for using this excellent guitar amp simulator from Avid.