Pro Tools MIDI Explained®
Chapter 1 : Getting Started
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7:26 Intro & Basic Setup
Learn how to enable MIDI input devices as well as set the default thru object and MIDI input filters.
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5:37 Getting Your Session Ready
See how to set up the rulers and counters to work with bars and beats, and how to enable and toggle the MIDI controls parameters.
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7:18 Setting Up an Instrument Track
Discover how to call up a software instrument and set the input and output selectors on an instrument track as well as how to set up a click track and establish a tempo.
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6:24 Recording Drums
Explore how to set the count-off and metronome options, record a basic drum track, and then use MIDI merge mode to add a hi-hat onto the already recorded kick and snare.
Chapter 2 : Quantizing
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8:20 Quantizing 101
Learn how the real-time properties view can be used to correct the timing of poorly played performances and add some swing to the way rhythms are subdivided.
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4:23 Seeing Quantization
See how to read the note-on positions in the MIDI Event List Window and see the visual results of quantization with and without swing values added.
Chapter 3 : Editing
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9:00 Real-Time Properties View
Discover how to create a MIDI track to record on and learn how the duration, delay, velocity, and transpose fields in the Real-Time Properties View function.
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6:57 RTP Tricks
Explore how the Real-Time Properties View parameters can be put to work on copies of a bass track to create some wild, wacky, musical variations from a simple part.
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7:53 Entering Notes
Learn how the Pencil Tool can be used an an input method for generating MIDI data by drawing with it directly in the Edit Window.
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6:05 Pencil Tool Basics
See how the different Pencil Tool modes can be used to generate notes with various types of velocity curves.
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4:26 Note Selection Techniques
Discover how the different tools as well as the Edit Window's mini keyboard can be used for establishing various types of note selections.
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6:07 Editing MIDI Notes
Explore how the various tools can be used to edit and alter the properties of MIDI notes directly in the Edit Window.
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4:16 Editing Note Velocities
Learn the different ways note velocities can be edited, either directly on the Edit Window track, or in the dedicated velocity / controller lane.
Chapter 4 : Recording
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5:02 Wait for Note
See how to record with the wait for note feature as well as a shortcut for quickly discarding bad takes and restarting, without breaking the creative flow.
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7:21 Punching-In
Discover how you can punch-in over a specified range in order to either add to the already existing data or replace it.
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6:08 Loop Recording
Explore how loop recording can be used in two different ways, either as a means of merging data on each pass, or as a means of recording multiple takes over a pre-defined range.
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7:14 Select from Multiple Takes
Learn how to audition and select multiple takes from the Region List as well as the Matching Takes List in the playlist area of the Edit Window. Also see some of the different ways the Match Criteria window can be used when editing multiple takes together.
Chapter 5 : Event Operations Window
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7:14 EOW - Quantize
See the various ways notes can be placed either on or near the grid with the extended parameters this event operation window offers.
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7:50 EOW - Velocity & Duration
Discover how note velocities and lengths can be manipulated and modified by a variety of criteria.
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5:19 More Event Operations
Explore how the Select / Split Note page can be used in conjunction with the other event operations for nuanced processing of subsets of notes contained within a region.
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5:32 Step Input
Learn how to use this alternate form of non real-time note entry as a means of generating technically difficult passages, or parts you might not otherwise think of when playing in real-time.
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6:18 Real-Time Properties Window
See how settings can be applied and written to either regions or whole tracks in the window mode of the real-time properties functions.
Chapter 6 : MIDI Editor Window
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8:28 The MIDI Editor Window
Discover the different ways to open and close the docked and stand alone versions of the MIDI Editor Window and explore its toolbar and main elements.
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9:19 The MIDI Editor In Action
The creation of some musical examples are used to explore the different ways the MIDI Editor can be used either alone or in conjunction with other Pro Tools functions.
Chapter 7 : Score Editor
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7:08 Score Editor Overview
Learn how to get into the Score Window and discover the different ways of customizing the view and displaying subsets of tracks in your session.
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8:43 Editing in the Score Window
See new key commands for tool, editing, and navigation basics and see how to work with and edit multiple parts simultaneously.
Chapter 8 : DigiGroove Templates
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8:19 Creating DigiGroove Templates
Explore how the groove from an audio drum loop can be extracted and made available for use as a quantization template.
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5:42 Using DigiGroove Templates
Learn how Digigroove templates are called up and how they can be applied to note duration and velocity in addition to note-on positions.
Chapter 9 : Utility
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6:20 Automating Instrument Parameters
Explore how to make specific instrument parameters available for automation and how to effectively use the Pencil Tool in the controller lanes in either the Edit Window or MIDI Editors.
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3:32 Layering Sounds
Discover how to set up multiple output assignments as a way to create layered MIDI sounds.
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6:49 Connecting an External MIDI Module
See how to route MIDI to an external sound module, import patch names, and route the external audio back in to Pro Tools.
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8:06 MIDI Event List
Discover how this window can be used for precise numeric creation and editing of all types of MIDI data.
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9:18 Window Configurations
Explore how the Window Configurations feature can be used to store different combinations of useful MIDI editing window setups.
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Reviews
Submitted 1 year ago
thorough teaching
Your videos are very clear and concise. And of good audio quality. Instructed gives an exhaustive lesson on this topic. After 12 years of working with protools,I still learned something new about midi..thank you groove 3.
I am a: Professional, Producer, Beat Maker, Audio Engineer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Pro Tools, Studio One
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Submitted 1 year ago
This is excellent
I'm learning so much from this, as with all of Eli's tutorials, it's clear, well-paced, thorough, interesting and very instructive.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Pro Tools
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Submitted 2 years ago
very useful
I'm so glad there are resources such as groove 3 to help people like me get the most out of their software , DAW, etc..I particularly like the Kenny Giorya and Eli Krantzberg tutorials.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV
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Reviews
Submitted 1 year ago
thorough teaching
Your videos are very clear and concise. And of good audio quality. Instructed gives an exhaustive lesson on this topic. After 12 years of working with protools,I still learned something new about midi..thank you groove 3.
I am a: Professional, Producer, Beat Maker, Audio Engineer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Pro Tools, Studio One
Submitted 1 year ago
This is excellent
I'm learning so much from this, as with all of Eli's tutorials, it's clear, well-paced, thorough, interesting and very instructive.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Pro Tools
Submitted 2 years ago
very useful
I'm so glad there are resources such as groove 3 to help people like me get the most out of their software , DAW, etc..I particularly like the Kenny Giorya and Eli Krantzberg tutorials.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I started playing drums in high school at age fourteen. Like most kids my age around then, I was into progressive rock. Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Yes. They rocked my world. A few short years later though, my musical life changed. While studying music in college I discovered Charlie Parker, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane. Milt Jackson spoke to me in such a profound way that it left me no choice but to take up vibraphone.
These great players, along with drummers like Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones changed not only the way I thought about drumming, but also music - and by extension, life - as a whole. I realized life was meant to be a creative endeavor. The idea of improvising based on a loose set of guidelines and rules permeated into my psyche even when I wasn't holding a pair of drumsticks or mallets. But if I am going to be perfectly truthful, I have to hold Henry Miller and Woody Allen equally responsible for shaping the way I view and experience the world around me.
2. What training have you had?
I am currently an Apple certified Logic Pro. Young and cocky, and armed with only a partial University degree, I dropped out of school and began playing steady commercial hotel engagements and jazz gigs when I could. This went on for many years until I decided it was time to complete my degree - which I ultimately did with a major in Political Science and a minor in music.
It was at this point that I formed my current band Nightshift. We are going in to our twenty third year now - playing commercial one nighters like weddings, corporate events, etc. Don't turn your nose up at it though - it has allowed me a wonderful quality of life. It gave me the freedom to go back to school and complete a post graduate degree in Communications Studies - all the while supporting myself by playing weddings.
3. When did you get into recording?
It was in this graduate program - in the early nineties - that I found myself drawn to the fledgling emerging universe of hard disc recording and midi sequencing. Based on nothing more than the recommendation of one of my band mates who had an old Atari, I jumped in head first and bought a Mac LC ll, along with a version 1.1 of what was then Notator Logic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But, in hindsight, it was a decision of epic importance in my life - shaping my future as much as the music of Milt Jackson and Charlie Parker did fifteen years prior.
I opened up my own commercial home studio in 1998 and began doing a variety of projects, working on radio jingles, artist CD projects, and whatever came my way. A couple of years later a colleague called me up - desperate. He was working at a post production house and one of the editors had just quit. They were doing audio post for a weekly TV series and needed a Pro Tools editor - and fast! And so, once again, I jumped in head first into what would ultimately open up my world even more - the world of Pro Tools.
4. People you have worked with/for?
Focusing on Logic, I built up a small but loyal client base and my phone kept ringing for Logic tech support and instruction. Film composers and studio owners all over the city were calling me. Even the music stores were giving out my phone number at this point! This kind of stuff becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. The more of it you do, the more calls you get to keep doing it. At least that's the way it should be!
As my Logic chops kept growing, I was hired by an old buddy of mine, Len Sasso, who was then an associate editor at Electronic Musician magazine, and began writing some columns for them. I had a blast doing them - and really learned to focus and express my thoughts in a concise and clear manner. This lead to a collaboration with LA based composer Terry Michael Huud on the 2006 film called Civic Duty - which was certainly one of the highlights of my professional life as a composer.
5. Why are you so good at training people?
I wake up every day excited to boot up, and create. Whether it's instructional videos, creating music, working with a studio client, performing with my band, or teaching at the schools - my days are filled with what I love doing. Enriched by the stimulation and creative freedom this modern music making software brings to my life. I bring that excitement and passion to each and every training product I create. My years of experience both using and teaching these programs has taught me the best way to make the user comfortable with these complex programs.
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