In the sixth and last free Pro Tools video tutorial of this series on Pro Tools Folder Tracks, brought to you with the support of Avid.
Julian Rodgers looks at the newly implemented support for Folder tracks in Eucon and how you can use the Avid Control App on a tablet to access and control Folder Tracks.
We are creatives but most of us are not computer network specialists. However, with the growth of Audio Over IP and Eucon people may be using technology that we may not fully understand. In this article, we aim to explain, as simply as possible, tips you can implement to reduce problems with trying to get too much data reliably across your office or home network.
The Pro Tools Dock acts as a very worthwhile, tactile extension of the free iOS PT | Control app and how, once you have understood that the Dock and the app are inseparable parts of the same system, the whole concept makes far more sense. Find out more in the first of a series of tutorials brought to you with the support of Avid on the Pro Tools Dock.
The VCA used to be an HD only feature but since it has been available in Pro Tools standard the power of these incredibly useful faders is available to all. In this free extract from Fab Dupont’s Mixing With Pro Tools 12 from Puremix Fab demonstrates how to set up a session so that all elements of the mix are accessible from VCAs and how useful this can be when used in combinations with the Pro Tools Control App
Back in July 2019, at the Avid Connect Live event, part of the Summer NAMM 2019 show in Nashville, Avid announced the Avid S1 control surface as a replacement to the Avid Artist Mix. Last weekend at IBC 2019 as part of their IBC coverage, Product Specialist Dave Tyler gave a much more detailed look at the Avid S1 and Avid’s Gil Gowing gave a sneak peek of the upcoming Avid Control app as well.
Avid has take the unusual step of emailing all Pro Tools Control users advising us not to upgrade to iOS 13 when it is released next week. We have the full statement from Avid.
In this free tutorial, brought to you with the support of Avid, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers shows his favourite tricks he’s learned while using the Avid Dock.
In this free tutorial, brought to you with the support of Avid, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates how to reassign edit and transport buttons and how to lock the fader to a specific track.
In this free tutorial, brought to you with the support of Avid, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates how to set up custom macros on the buttons on the Avid Dock.
Team member Alan Sallabank has just updated to Pro Tools 2018.12, which automatically updated the Eucon software. His old iPad, which worked fine for Pro Tools Control until this point now won't talk to Pro Tools or Eucon, as it's stuck on iOS 9.3.5. So beware if you have an old iPad like Alan and I do.
Ever since the iPad Pro 10.5" came out there have been questions as to whether it would support the Pro Tools Control app and whether it would fit in the Pro Tools Dock. In this article, we explore the options.
In this free tutorial from Puremix, Mark Abrams shows you around Avid's Pro Tools | Control app for the iPad. Learn how to set your system up and get familiar with this app's unique and powerful controls. Improve your workflow and customize your fader and softkey layouts in a flash.
In this free tutorial from Avid you can learn how to use the EuControl software to program a range of soft keys on the Pro Tools Control on the iPad and the Pro Tools Dock and including the touch strips and the jog wheel.
Today I downloaded and installed the new version of the Avid Pro Tools Control app for iPad and I am going to share my first look at it.
To all intents and purposes the new iPad Pro is simply a bigger more powerful iPad, offering a larger screen, and some features not seen on iPad before. But what difference does that make to those using Pro Tools, we checked out the new iPad Pro in our Pro Tools workflow to find out.
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Julian Rodgers is Editor of Production Expert. He has a background in live sound and has been a Pro Tools user since 2001. He lives by the sea in West Cornwall where he plays piano, bass and guitar equally badly and is an avid collector of microphones and opinions about all things audio.