This week I’d like to go through the 3 key components of a home studio.
These are:
The Digital Audio Workstation
The Audio Interface
and Microphones
(This article is from The Home Recording Show Podcast Episode 5)
This new Auto Time Adjuster plugin took me a while to figure out, so I figured I’d save everyone else the trouble by giving you step by step instructions on how to use it.
This looks like it will make delay compensation a non-issue in PT LE/m-p, maybe Digi will get the hint (probably not). The addition of the ping feature makes this work extremely fast and efficiently.
Ye olde copy & paste:
Auto Time Adjuster is designed to ease workflow in ProTools LE, when using plug-ins that generate significant latency. Currently to compensate for plugin latency you have to iether move individual audio tracks backwards/forwards or use the included Time Adjuster plugin to adjust the delay of each track in turn. One plug-in change can mean a lot of tweaks in a large project. Auto Time Adjuster v1.1 now uses audio pinging to automatically calculate and compensate for latency on your audio and aux tracks with the click of a button.
When you add/remove a plugin on a track all you need to do is click the ping button on the master ATA to sync up all your tracks, even those with hardware inserts. To understand the workflow and see the ATA in action view the overview flash videos below.
ATA Video Tutorials:
1) Overview
2) Hardware inserts
* FXpansion’s VST-RTAS Wrapper required to use ATA in ProTools LE or M-Powered
* v1.1 introductory price $29.00 till August 1st then $49.00
For the $29 it cost now its great, (full review coming) $49 isn’t so bad if you have UAD/liquidmix etc, then you really do need this plugin. It even works with hardware inserts.
This is probably boring stuff to most of you, if anyone wants to write articles here, I’d love the help.
anyway…
Heres a short video showing some bugs in Pro Tools.
The first bug is the BF Essential Tuner reading -10 at @440hz making it pretty damn useless! I didn’t actually discover this one, I saw mention of it on the DUC (which is closed at the moment) and checked it out.
Can anyone with an older version of PT (6.9?) please check the tuner?
Second thing is having a plugin after a signal generator and enabling/disabling results randomly. The tuner plugin should not alter the phase of the signal.
Click the link to view fullscreen video pt_bugs.swf
The sound quality sucks (jitter and stuff) from running two interfaces into each other, I think my voice sounds higher than normal as well. This is the first time using Jing as well. I’m happy with the video quality, but unfortunately there is no way to edit after and no advanced options.
Matt Fordham of RecordReady.com has a brilliant series of beginner videos, absolutely free and in awesome quality.
