Producing With Pro Tools

Just wanted to let everyone know that the new Berkleemusic.com online semester starts today, Jan 7th. You can still sign up for classes. I’ll be teaching sections of three different courses:

1. ‘Producing with Pro Tools’ - a class based on my new book (Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools, 3rd Edition) where we focus on recording, editing, and MIDI production techniques, for novices to intermediate Pro Tools users. Here, we do many real-world projects using Pro Tools for music creation and creative editing using audio and MIDI.

2. ‘Recording and Producing in the Home Studio’ - a class where you start with a demo song (your own or a clients) and over 12 weeks we take that song and produce it… in pre-production, we examine the song structure, lyrics, etc and rework anything that should be reworked… in the production phase, we re-record the tracks… and in the post-production phase, we edit, mix, and master the song. By the 12th week, we will have taken your demo and turned it into a fully produced and mastered recording.

3. ‘Pro Tools 101′ - the Pro Tools beginners class, designed by Digidesign. A guided start to learning the basics.

Get the most out of your studio equipment and new holiday toys. Go to www.berkleemusic.com to check out these courses and sign up to join me in class.

Who’s going to AES in New York? I will most likely be there, at least for Saturday and Sunday (Oct 6 & 7). I’ve been to AES many times over the past few years, and each time I go I have a blast. After spending the day learning about all the cool new stuff coming out, I usually end up at some crazy studio party. Man, there are some stories… the best one involves jello shots, but we won’t go there in this blog.

If you are going to AES and want to meet up, let me know. I usually spend a lot of time at… yeah, you guessed it… the Digidesign/M-Audio booth. Ask for me there, or if there’s enough interest, we can set up a specific meeting point. I’d love to meet up with other cool Pro Tools users and studio owners.

Welcome back to Producing with Pro Tools. Yesterday I got a call from my friends at Digidesign to do column for their next DigiZine (coming out in January). I wrote for them for several years and then took a short break, conveniently timed while I was working on the latest edition of my Pro Tools book. Anyway, now I’m back.

Who reads DigiZine? Anyone? Do you find it helpful? I’d love to know your opinions about it. Dusty DiMurcio, a good friend of mine at Digi, is the editor in chief and I think the latest version online is pretty rad. It’s even got page turning sound effects. Check it out here and let me know your opinion:

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=6&langid=100&

Cheers.

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Hi Folks. Welcome to the Producing with Pro Tools blog! I’m David Franz and I’ve started this blog to discuss anything related to using Pro Tools for producing, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in home, project, and commercial pro studios.

I’ve been using Pro Tools for quite some time now and, as you may have noticed from the links on this page, I’ve also been teaching about it through Berklee College of Music’s online school. I wrote the first book (besides the software manual J) in cahoots with Digidesign and Berklee back in 2000-2001, when the Digi 001 first appeared. My book is now in its third edition, updated for Pro Tools 7.3.

Anyway, this blog exists for you. I’m here to share some knowledge and discuss anything related to producing music with Pro Tools. Please feel free to post a comment, ask a question, or just follow along… and if you’re so inspired, check out the links to my books, online classes, and studio on the right. I’m glad you’re here and I hope you check back in regularly.

Cheers.

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