Just cancelled my Pro Tools 9 order.

[Mark Wein]

Now that I'm thinking about it, if I sent the auxillary return to the master bus, it'd probably work just like it did in Cubase instead of having a seperate track for the aux return. I'll have to try that when I get home.

Of course, having a fader on the main mixer for fx levels will probably grow on me. I've been on my old system for so long that everything is going to take a little bit of time for me to get used to.

Learning curve. I haz one.

I might be misunderstanding you, but you should have inserts at the top of each channel strip for your plug-ins specific for the channel and then below that sends if you wanted to send that channel to something like a global reverb.

It'll be different from Cubase to an extent, but not as different as switching to something like Logic. Which I still haven't bothered to learn yet.

 

[Prages]

I might be misunderstanding you, but you should have inserts at the top of each channel strip for your plug-ins specific for the channel and then below that sends if you wanted to send that channel to something like a global reverb.

It'll be different from Cubase to an extent, but not as different as switching to something like Logic. Which I still haven't bothered to learn yet.

Right. I've got the inserts and sends at the top of each channel, but if you send to say a reverb plug, the only way I've been able to get that working so far is to send to say "bus 31-32", then set up an auxillary track with an input of 'bus 31-32' and put the reverb on the insert of the auxillary track.

I mean, there's probably about 30 ways to get it done, and how I did it this morning worked fine, other than adding a track to the mixer that is nothing but an auxillary return.

 

[Mark Wein]

gotcha!

 

[Kerouac]

Right. I've got the inserts and sends at the top of each channel, but if you send to say a reverb plug, the only way I've been able to get that working so far is to send to say "bus 31-32", then set up an auxillary track with an input of 'bus 31-32' and put the reverb on the insert of the auxillary track.

I mean, there's probably about 30 ways to get it done, and how I did it this morning worked fine, other than adding a track to the mixer that is nothing but an auxillary return.

In Logic we can do it two ways. 1) Insert it as a channel strip effect or 2) use an Aux Bus. I have minimal Pro Tools experience, but IIRC buses are the only way to do that. If I'm wrong I'd love to be corrected, as one of these days I will hook up my little Pro Tools M-Powered box.

 

[El Borrachito]

Right. I've got the inserts and sends at the top of each channel, but if you send to say a reverb plug, the only way I've been able to get that working so far is to send to say "bus 31-32", then set up an auxillary track with an input of 'bus 31-32' and put the reverb on the insert of the auxillary track.

I mean, there's probably about 30 ways to get it done, and how I did it this morning worked fine, other than adding a track to the mixer that is nothing but an auxillary return.

That's how you do it.

 

[Prages]

Fuck Pro Tools in the goat ass!

 

[Mark Wein]

now what?

 

[Prages]

Pretty much I'm right back to the point where Pro Tools won't even open.

Started out well enough. Click track keeping time like it should. I was playing drums for an hour or so until I got a good take. Listened back and the drums were all distorted like there was some kind of dithering or something. Played around with settings and I've gotten "source clock doesn't match sample rate" errors, even though I've confirmed that the settings are the same, and then after doing some more tweaking, I'm back to not even being able to open Pro Tools because it's not even seeing ASIO4ALL now.

I'm just calling it a night and going to bed.

 

[Mark Wein]

:(

 

[Kerouac]

Pretty much I'm right back to the point where Pro Tools won't even open.

Started out well enough. Click track keeping time like it should. I was playing drums for an hour or so until I got a good take. Listened back and the drums were all distorted like there was some kind of dithering or something. Played around with settings and I've gotten "source clock doesn't match sample rate" errors, even though I've confirmed that the settings are the same, and then after doing some more tweaking, I'm back to not even being able to open Pro Tools because it's not even seeing ASIO4ALL now.

I'm just calling it a night and going to bed.

*runs*






But seriously, that REALLY sucks. Maybe sell the Firepod and put the cash towards a new interface?

 

[Prages]

I managed to record drum tracks this morning that didn't sound like they were from an Atari video game. I guess I stumbled into the right combination of drivers and settings.

So, maybe I'll actually get a useable drum track this evening.

 

[Prages]

Last night I got drums and bass recorded. I think I may have gotten everything working as it should. Fingers are crossed.

 

[mosiddiqi]

*crosses everything possible, some not possible*



I'm just beginning to get very comfortable with Reaper, so reading this thread terrifies me.

 

[Prages]

*crosses everything possible, some not possible*



I'm just beginning to get very comfortable with Reaper, so reading this thread terrifies me.

Luckily, the software itself is pretty similar to most other DAWs I've used. Sure, menus are a little different, but the basic functionality is the same.

The setup with my computer has been a bear, but I think I've got it dialed in now.

 

[mosiddiqi]

Luckily, the software itself is pretty similar to most other DAWs I've used. Sure, menus are a little different, but the basic functionality is the same.

The setup with my computer has been a bear, but I think I've got it dialed in now.

..when I first tried PC recording, problems like crackles and latency would just kill any desire I had to actually record music. Thankfully, my set up is stable now and I'm pleased with the results I'm getting..huge learning curve though.

 

[Prages]

..when I first tried PC recording, problems like crackles and latency would just kill any desire I had to actually record music. Thankfully, my set up is stable now and I'm pleased with the results I'm getting..huge learning curve though.

Yeah, stuff like that is really frustrating. My old computer with the Firepods worked great, though, and the new computer is about 10 times as powerful as it is, so I think I should be good to go now that I've got all the settings and drivers figured out.

As for the learning curve, I've got that too, though it's not near as bad as it would have been if I'd just jumped from a stand alone to a DAW like PT9. I've been computer based for about 7-8 years now, so I'm at least familiar with how DAWs work (and in some cases, don't work).

I'm really wanting to play around with Pro Tools' beat detective plugin. If I can quantize my drum tracks fairly easily, that should help my recordings out a bit. I normally keep pretty good time, but I almost always fall off the click at least once or twice during a song while playing a fill or something. Maybe I can fix that with Beat Detective without having to manually cut and paste individual drum hits.

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[Prages]

And so far, I've got a click track, 8 drum tracks each with compression and EQ inserts and an aux send (two aux sends on the snare), a bass track with a compression and EQ insert and an aux send, and two aux return channels with reverbs in the inserts.

So, that's a total of 12 tracks (if you count the click track and aux returns) and a bunch of inserts. System is running smoothly so far.

 

[Mark Wein]

Very cool. The difference in the size of the session that I can run between my two setups is pretty amazing. I'm bummed that I can't open a full session in my office from the studio.

 

[Prages]

The song I'm doing should be a good test of the capabilities of the system too. I'll probably double mic each guitar part, and there are at least 3..possibly 4 distinct guitar parts, then at least 3 or 4 tracks of vocals.

I'd say by the time I'm done, I'll probably be in the upper 20s as far as actual track count. Add a couple more for auxillary returns.