Creating A Beat & Composing Music In Pro Tools

What you'll learn
Setup a Pro Tools session
Record MIDI & audio into the Pro Tools workspace
Setup tempo changes and arrange MIDI notes to sync with the tempo
Import audio samples to arrange within a mix
Use the Grid feature in Pro Tools with confidence
Create custom samples and trigger them with MIDI
Add effects to the samples and sounds being generated by Pro Tools
Requirements
A minimal understanding of MIDI and what it does in music production
Familiarity with the Pro Tools workspace
How to connect a USB keyboard to a computer
How to connect an external hard drive or install an internal hard drive in a computer
Description
Welcome to creating a instrumental beat or musical score from scratch within the Pro Tools DAW. This course will cover everything you need to know from start to finish for composing music with MIDI and analog samples within the Pro Tools work space. We'll start with the session setup and how to organize your tracks to create a template. This will allow you to quickly and easily create new compositions regularly to keep your creative ideas flowing.
At the start of this course, we're going to cover some essential basics that are fundamental in your workflow production. You may already be aware of these crucial steps to production, but just in case you missed something, I'm going to review how to optimize your system for a professional workflow in Pro Tools.
This course is perfect for anyone interested in learning how to use digital software to compose music. We'll take a look at the stock plugins that come with Pro Tools and then explore some 3rd party plugins that you can add to your system if you need to expand your sound library. You'll be able to customize your sounds and learn the basics for creating an engaging mix.
Finally, I'll give you some advice on how to distribute and market your music so that you can turn your passion into a source of income. I look forward to sharing this course with you and I welcome any questions you may have about the lectures.
Overview
Section 1: Setting Up Pro Tools & Templates
Lecture 1 Welcome
Lecture 2 Shine On Audio Community
Lecture 3 Sample Websites
Lecture 4 Working with Samples
Lecture 5 Pro Tools as a DAW
Lecture 6 24 bit vs. 32 bit float
Lecture 7 Getting Started with Pro Tools
Lecture 8 How to setup Pro Tools Quick Start Dialogue
Lecture 9 Hard drive setup & system optimization
Lecture 10 Creating Instrument and MIDI tracks
Lecture 11 Edit Window Zoom Features
Lecture 12 Memory Location Selection and Zoom settings
Lecture 13 Plugin Recommendations
Section 2: Learn how to control your sound
Lecture 14 Using a Gate
Lecture 15 Layering Sounds
Section 3: Composing the Beat
Lecture 16 Routing MIDI through the XPAND2 sampler
Lecture 17 Basic concepts of beat building
Lecture 18 Create your own 808 Bass Tone
Lecture 19 Adding MIDI notes to the Instrument tracks
Lecture 20 Adding Samples to the Mix
Lecture 21 Adding Delay to the analog samples
Lecture 22 Working with Arpeggiated Synth sound inside the XPAND2 workstation
Lecture 23 Setting up Structure to sample audio
Lecture 24 Recording MIDI with Structure + Adding FX in Structure
Lecture 25 Adding Distortion to the Structure Sample w/ Sans Amp PSA-1
Lecture 26 Getting deeper into the options within Structure
Section 4: Mixing & Automation in Pro Tools
Lecture 27 Adjusting Volume & Manual Volume Automation
Lecture 28 Writing automation to your volume levels
Lecture 29 Clip Gain
Lecture 30 Adjusting Volume on Instrument tracks containing MIDI notes
Lecture 31 Resampling MIDI into an audio file
Lecture 32 Individual Stems
Section 5: Effects and Textures
Lecture 33 Adding Delay to your Drum Track
Lecture 34 Side-Chain Effects to create depth in the mix
Lecture 35 Synth Motion: Using an expander to create motion
Lecture 36 The Pro Tools Secret Weapon
Section 6: Mixing the beat (Uploading more videos soon)
Lecture 37 Mixing the Beat Part I
Lecture 38 Mixing the Beat Part II
Lecture 39 Mixing the Beat Part III
Lecture 40 Mixing the Beat Part IV
Lecture 41 Mixing the Beat Part V
Perfect for any student that wants to learn how to create custom beats in Pro Tools. ,Composers looking to add Pro Tools compositions to their portfolio

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