Category: Sonic Doing + Thinking

Pro Tools – Mixing and creating a bounce

1. What term is used to describe an audio patch point that applies a signal processor directly into the signal path on a track? How many of these patch points does Pro Tools provide on each track?

Inserts are the audio patch points and there are 10 on each track.


2. What term is used to describe a signal path carrying a mix output of one or more tracks routed for parallel processing? How can this signal be returned to the sending device?

The signal paths are called sends and they can be returned to the sending device with the aux input track.


3. What menu would you use to display or hide the Mix window? What keyboard shortcut can you use to toggle between the Mix and Edit windows?

The window menu, the shortcut is command (+) =


4. What menu command can you use to display or hide an Inserts or Sends view area in the Mix window?

The view menu


5. What type of plug-in provides real-time processing? What type provides non-real-time processing?


6. What are some commonly used plug-in options for EQ and dynamics processing in Pro Tools?


7. Which Pro Tools automation mode discussed in this lesson records changes to track controls in real time when playing back the session?


8. What is the difference between Read mode and Off mode? Which mode allows you to play back existing automation on the track?


9. What track control can you use to display an automation playlist? What window are automation playlists displayed in?

10. What tool can you use to add, move, or delete automation breakpoints? What modifier can you use to delete a breakpoint by clicking on it?


11. Why is it important to back up your Pro Tools sessions? What are some ways in which your Pro Tools work can be lost accidentally?

12. How is the Save Copy In command different from the Save As command, in terms of the files that are saved?


13. Which session will be open after completing a Save Copy In operation: the original or the copy? How is this different from the Save As operation?

14. What command can you use to save a session with a different sample rate or bit depth?

15.What are some considerations for bouncing audio in Pro Tools? How is the bounce affected by soloed or muted tracks? How is it affected by the active selection?


16. What command lets you mix your entire session directly to a stereo file? What file types are supported for the bounce file with this command?

17. What bit depth and sample rate should you use when bouncing if you plan to burn the file to CD without further processing?


18. How can you add audio files to iTunes for use in burning a CD??

Cut-Up Research

Audio cut-up to make new stories out of old ones.

“For first you write a sentence,
And then you chop it small;
Then mix the bits, and sort them out
Just as they chance to fall:
The order of the phrases makes
No difference at all.”

Bowie describes cut-up as a sort of western tarot

Created by the poet Tristan Tzara, ‘cut up’ is the deconstruction of a primary text using the random cutting up of words and phrases to form new sentences and thus a new piece of writing. It is a process of extraction and reconstruction of a new meaning of language, based on chaotic intuition and the free creative flow.

Kurt Cobain, who had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with Burroughs, was one of the maximum exponents in the 1990s of cut-up literature, declaring that his lyrics were the result of his cut up poems. Later, Thom Yorke would imitate the form that was supposedly first used by the surrealists, pulling cut up words out of a hat to write the entire Kid A album.

Research: Plunderphonics

Plunderphonics is described as “a music genre in which tracks are constructed by sampling recognizable musical works”.

Who owns the work once it has been resampled and repurposed?

“A good composer does not imitate, he steals”

“Some of you, current and potential samplerists, are perhaps curious about the extent to which you can legally borrow from the ingredients of other people’s sonic manifestations. Is a musical property properly private, and if so, when and how does one trespass upon it? Like myself, you may covet something similar to a particular chord played and recorded singularly well by the strings of the estimable Eastman Rochester Orchestra on a long-deleted Mercury Living Presence LP of Charles Ives’ Symphony #3, itself rampant in unauthorized procurements. Or imagine how invigorating a few retrograde Pygmy (no slur on primitivism intended) chants would sound in the quasi-funk section of your emulator concerto. Or perhaps you would simply like to transfer an octave of hiccups from the stock sound library disk of a Mirage to the spring-loaded tape catapults of your Melotron.”

Dream Research

We dream for 6 years over the span of our life on average, your mind is more active during a dream than when your’e awake , we sleep to recover from the days stress on the body, repair muscle damage and get ready for the next day. your dreams only see familiar faces, the faces in your dreams are people you’ve already seen , you can’t read in your dreams, when you’re asleep your subconscious is taking a break, you can’t look in the mirror,

Christina Wheeler

Where are you in the space of your piece? Where do you want your audience to be? Do you want them horizontal, vertical, do you want where they are to change over time? Where do you want your sound source options to come from? How do you experience sound in the space? Voice from vocals, instruments, objects, moving sculptures. Where are these sound placed during the piece, are they moving througought the piece? Is the audience sitting on the stage? Do you want to use music? Do you want to include a soundscape?

Vicki Bennett/People Like Us

Plunderphonics is a genre of music which consists of heavily sampling most commonly from well known recognisable material. The term plunderphonics was created by John Oswald in 1985 in his essay by the same name. The essay really piqued my interest as I have been actively interested in the legal and moral standpoint of sampling in general. After reading the essay I feel excited to start experimenting with more samples in my personal and university work.

http://www.plunderphonics.com/xhtml/xplunder.html

I have just checked the plunderphonics genre on Rate Your Music and I have listened to a lot of the albums on the list and was unaware that the music was in the plunderphonic genre.

Further listening list-

革命京劇 (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera) Ver.1.28

Lektion III – Den Sorte Skole 2013

Dispepsi – Negativland

Unborn Faces Withering – DJ Yo-Yo Dieting