Jack Joseph Puig on using your instinct. Watch out, this one is loud.

I saw Bootsy Collins at NAMM (the blurb on the blurry picture) and that got me thinking: do you guys know about the funk?

Oh, you mean you were looking to actually learn something of value from this website? How about learning about making funk. Below are two pdf’s that will get you at least half-way.

Shitty is pretty 1
Shitty is pretty 2

To change the width of the meters in the mixer, simply hold all three modifier keys (command/control, option/alt and control/windows) while clicking one of the meters.

There are two settings, personally I prefer the wider meters but to each their own.

I have compiled a list of all the free RTAS plug-ins I could think of. The list is nowhere near as long as a free VST list would be but nonetheless there are quite a few handy plug-ins here. Needless to say, while this is an RTAS plug-in list, most of them should be available in VST and AU as well.
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If you’re on Mac OS X, whenever it’s time to update your system make sure you use the combo update on Apples website instead of the software updater in OS X. The combo update file will mount in Finder like a regular disk image.

There have been occasions in the past where people have had problems with Pro Tools after updating OS X and solved them by simply using the combo update.

In this post I’ve listed all the standalone applications I could think of that in some way aids Pro Tools or Pro Tools users. Some of them do very simple and specific things, tools that are just handy to keep around, others are large multi-purpose applications intended for the big production studios.
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When composing you can sometimes end up with a lot of tracks. To help you keep track of them, remember that the Pro Tools mixer is not static like a traditional console! Move the tracks around. Keep the ones you’re working on close to each other, move them away when you’re done working on them.

Another thing I like to do is change the height to different settings depending on what ’stage’ the track is at. For instance, tracks I’m done with for the moment (new things can always come to mind!) is usually kept minimized so that they’re not in the way and take up too much space in the edit window. Similarly, the tracks I know I have to do more work on I’ll keep at a larger scale to remind myself that I will need to get back to them at some point in time.

Here’s the videos from the Waves Eddie Kramer seminar, kindly filmed by Ashley Smith.

Part 1.

Part 2.

Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

Part 6.

Part 7.

Part 8.

Here’s a quick tip for all you hardware synth users.

If you’re using a hardware synthesizer and have the possibility to dump its presets to the computer (and move it back again!) you could do what I do and simply dump the presets for the tracks in your session folder. This way you’ll always be able to get back to it long after you’ve removed the preset from your synth and you’ll always have the preset with your backup of the session.

I use the free SysEx Librarian for Mac OS X to dump my presets. I’m sure there’s something similar available for Windows as well. If you have a suggestion for Windows users please let us know.

I was alerted through the comments on a previous post that there’s a website where you can share your Eleven Rack presets (and download new ones!).

Check out the Eleven Rack User Group and Preset Exchange website.