J. Anthony Allen shows how to produce a complete track in Pro Tools First, the free version. He creates audio and MIDI tracks, builds a synth with Xpand2, edits drums, adds effects and EQ, and exports to MP3. The result sounds professional despite using free software.
We can create many tracks at once if we want. So this says create one new mono audio track in ticks. Here's what that means. How many new tracks do we want to make? Let's make three new stereo. And the difference between mono and stereo is mono means. So what I want to do here is a multitambral synth. Now, timbre in terms of synthesis means sound. It literally means color. So it's like the different sounds that we have. So we're going to make a synth that has several different sounds. So here's the default. Okay, we could leave that in. Or we could change it. Let's change it. Click on this and let's do. Let's just make a really fun synth here. So let's do. Okay, it's pretty clean. It's pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. Okay, now that we've done that and we've got our drum loop to be totally in time, let's go to editing our audio here and start to create a little bit of an arrangement. So now in doing that, I. Because I pasted this one to be long and generated my third bar again. So I'm just going to go back and redelete that. Okay, we still got this soloed, so let's just hear that. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this class on Pro Tools. First, I've been using Pro Tools for a long time, and I'm really excited to get my hands on this new version that they have that's talking totally free. Anyone can get their hands on it. There's no financial barrier like there always has been for Pro Tools. So it's really exciting. There are some barriers. There are some things you can't do. I mean, there has to be, right? They still have their expensive versions, but I think you'll find that throughout this course, I kind of walk you through what they are and how to make some music in dealing with them. They're not that bad. This is a full program. This isn't a demo or anything like that. It's a full legit program and you can make some music with it, like we will do in this class. We're going to produce a track during this class. As we go through, we'll also look at, you know, your recording setup, your MIDI setup, how to use the Xpand 2, which is a sort of a synthesizer built into Pro Tools. First, we'll talk about mixing using effects, eqs, automation, and then finally your final bounce settings, how to get it down to an MP3 that you can post online and do whatever you want with and a full quality audio track that you can, you know, upload to itunes or Spotify or whatever you want to do. We're gonna do all of that in this class. It's. It's fun. Class. Class. I had a really good time making it, so I hope you decide to jump in and take advantage of this great free version of Pro Tools.
