![]() Keyboard ShortcutsĪs you can gather from the previous section, keyboard shortcuts in Pro Tools are plentiful. You can also edit midi information in the Score editor using ⌃⌥= (Control Option Equals), should you wish to. It can operate either as a floating window or docked at the bottom of the Edit window. ![]() The Midi Editor is, of course, most like Logic’s Piano Roll window. Press E again to return to your previous view.Īlternatively, you can also edit midi in the MIDI Editor window, which can be accessed using the ⌃= (Control Equals) keyboard shortcut. You can use the Zoom Toggle keyboard shortcut E to have the clip fill the screen and make it easier to work on. This creates an empty clip and can be edited in place by either right clicking in the track view and changing from Clips to Notes, or simply switch to the pencil tool and click into the clip itself.Ĭoming from Logic you might find this a bit fiddly. In Pro Tools you would use the Selector tool to select an area in the edit window on one track and then press ⇧⌥ 3 ( Shift Option 3 for Consolidate). In Logic you can create an empty midi region by right clicking on a midi or instrument track and selecting Create MIDI Region. When it comes to midi/instrument tracks you have three different places to edit these.įirst is right in the Edit window itself. Switching between Mix and Edit windows can be done with the keyboard shortcut ⌘= (Command Equals). The Mix window is similar to Logic’s Mixer window, the Clips list cannot be displayed in this window but the Tracks and Groups lists can be. This is called Scroll to Track in Pro Tools this is done by ⇧⌃ (Shift Control) clicking in the Tracks list (or the Mix window). Tip: Clicking on a track in the tracks list doesn’t automatically select the track in the main part of the edit window. ![]() The Clips, Tracks and Group lists can be hidden and/or resized with the mouse. It shows all the tracks in the session and allows you to show or hide those tracks in the Mix, Edit, Midi Editor and Score windows. The Tracks list does not have an equivalent in Logic, although I wish it did. On the left side of the Edit window is the Tracks list and the below that the Groups list. Each time you make an edit a new clip is created but unlike Logic this applies to both audio and midi clips. On the right side of the Edit window you have the Clips list which is most similar to the Project Browser, a place where all the clips in a session are showed. Midi is a little bit different, but I will get onto that in a minute. You can, and indeed must, perform audio file editing in the Edit window. Unlike Logic there is no separate audio track or sample editor. The Edit window is most similar to what used to be called the Arrange Window but is now called the Main Window. Pro Tools differs from Logic in that much of what you can do is done in two main windows, the Edit and Mix windows. Understanding Edit, Mix, Midi and Score Windows. Without trying to caveat myself into a position of safety here, this obviously isn’t meant to be a comprehensive critique of Pro Tools, there are many resources that do this, but rather just a few handy tips that can start you off. Throughout this document I’ll use DAW specific terms when discussing one or the other. Sometimes it is less obvious, for instance Logic’s Bounce In Place functionality can be achieved using Consolidate, Commit or Bounce Track, with slight differences between when and why you might used each of these. Sometimes this is obvious, for instance Key Commands in Logic are Keyboard Shortcuts in Pro Tools. Whilst a lot of the same tasks can be achieved in each DAW they are often achieved in different ways and the manuals for each sometimes name them differently. ![]() Part of learning the Avid way is getting used to their terminology. I don’t profess to be a Pro Tools wizard but after 15 years of using it I’ve picked up a few things and here is an overview for anyone who is familiar with Logic but wants to make the jump to the Avid way of doing things. Faced with the choice between selling my HD system and going native or learning Pro Tools software I did the latter. This was years before Universal Audio Apollos came along and I needed the low latency of a DSP-based system to track bands but I didn’t know the first thing about Pro Tools software. As a long time Logic user when Apple discontinued the Emagic System Bridge, a nifty piece of software which allowed Pro Tools HD hardware to be used with Logic as the software front end, some years ago I was a bit stuck. ![]()
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