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Pro Tools software tips

EDIT WINDOW TIPS

QUICK AUDITION: option click in regions to audition a track quickly
SCRUB: hold down "control" and move mouse over audio
MARKERS ON FLY: while playing hit enter key on numeric key pad to add a marker (markers window is located at window/memory loactions)

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Naming conventions

# Characters
When in doubt, stick to a-z, A-Z and numbers. To be safe on multiple operating systems, avoid these characters:

Asterisk *
Pipe |
Brackets < >[ ]
Question mark ?
Equal sign =
Plus sign +
Percent sign %
Quotes "
Slashes \ /
Comma, Period, Colon, Semicolon , . : ;

(Currently, we have a lot of + signs in our depot without incident, but it's still worth avoiding.)

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Hardware Roadmap

Presently micro-OSC supports the PIC18F2455, PIC18F4550, and PIC18F4553.

We like the USB-enabled PIC32 processor for the next uOSC port. It has more memory, is much faster and has considerably more digital and analog pins. The 16 ADC channels are 10-bit though not 12-bit as in the PIC18F4553.

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Arduino

micro-OSC does not yet run on the Arduino. Some unfortunate design choices on the Arduino make it challenging to achieve good performance of uOSC as we have for the PIC.

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Purchasing

Richard handles all the purchasing. Except for things that Edmund wants, which can go through Jim Coates in the Music Dept.

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Skype interview/lecture in Main Room

• Use the hard wire net connection when doing Skype or i-Chat style interviews or lectures in the main room, not Air Bears.

Instruct the guest in the following matters:

• Make sure that the guest has a Skype or i-Chat address and that you have contacted him/her via this method.

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SDIF

SDIF: Sound Description Interchange Format

Welcome to the home page for the SDIF standards effort. We look forward to
your feedback and participation.

SDIF Documents and Resources

  • ICMC2000 Analysis/Synthesis Comparison Session:
    Run everybody's analysis software on a common
    set of input sounds and see what you learn from comparing the resulting
    SDIF files.

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    Setting the clock source

    Normally, the mixer is the master clock for the whole studio. To set the clock source:

    For normal operation, Protools--
    Setup/Hardware/Optical Format/ADAT

    Setup/Hardware/Clock source/optical.

    -[inline-center:protools_clock.png=Setting the Clock Source]

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    Digital Patch Bay

    CNMAT's Main Room ADAT Lightpipe Patch Bay

    It is possible to send and receive digital audio via Alesis' 8-channel ADAT LightPipe optical format in CNMAT's main room from various sources, for instance:

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    Analog Patch Bay

    Rane outputs 1-8 are normalled to the 8 loudspeakers.

    The default is that the outputs of the mixer go via the Ranes to the corresponding loudspeakers. It's easy (though not necessarily recommended) to bypass the Ranes in order to patch directly to the Meyer speaker inputs), or to remap the channel numbers by patching here.

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    Recording from the Main Room

    #Standard connections
    The [cnmat:node/2726|Rear Studio] is prewired to record eight microphone channels from the Main Room. See [cnmat:node/3828|Recording from the Main Room] in the Rear Studio manual for complete information on recording with the Tascam digital mixer, use of the talkback system, etc.

    #Additional patch points

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    Pro Tools Support

    Video Tutorial:
    [inline-center:Working with Pro Tools 1.mov=Getting Sound from Pro Tools into the DM-3200 Mixer]

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    Logic Support

    The video tutorials on [cnmat:node/3318|this page] address getting sound out of Logic.

    Below is collected knowledge of Logic in CNMAT rear studio.

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