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- USING SCOM AND PROTOOLS
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- >It worked. I'm curious how you use Pro Tools and SCOM together. I let SCOM
- >have the midi port and use Pro Tools only to record it as incoming audio - but
- >I've had some spetacular crashes. Do you use the IAC bus in OMS?
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- Compile song in SCOM to a MIDI file.
- In ProTools import the MIDI file.
- Use mixer window to set up MIDI channels - ProTools does not import channels.
- Make ProTools recording and let it play the MIDI file at the same time.
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- If you have one synthesizer you can use all of its capabilities to
- build up ONE VOICE. Mute all tracks in ProTools except one, and set up
- the voices in your synth, and record the track. Then mute another voice
- and do more voices, and so on, until you have recorded all tracks.
- Then mix the audio tracks. At this stage mute all MIDI tracks.
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- You have these processes:
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- COMPOSING
- Work in SCOM until the piece is finished. All your sounds should
- be sort of work-sounds. You will replace and optimize most of
- them later.
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- RECORDING
- Import SCOM MIDI file to ProTools and play it back while recording
- the result from your synth.
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- MIXING
- Mix audio tracks using ProTools powerful equalizing and processing
- capabilities (I'm using Waves).
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- BOUNCING
- Do the final mix by bouncing the tracks to hard disk.
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- FINALIZING
- This is optional and requires you have Waves L1 ultramaximizer.
- Load the bounced tracks back to ProTools and maximize the loudness.
- Then do final bouncing to the hard disk and archieve your files,
- and do the next piece.
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- Additionally you can use software synthesis. I've been using OOP
- which is a sample player & analog synthesizer. The RECORDING stage
- consists running OOP with the SCOM MIDI file. OOP lets you save
- tracks one by one or by groups to AIFF files, which you can then
- import into ProTools.
-
- Wow! Lots of doing, but the results are so much better than just
- recording MIDI directly to DAT. I did one cool thing in OOP...I wrote
- a generator to SCOM that outputs delay lines, then compiled some
- fibonacci rooms. You can use any SCOM generator to generate acoustic
- spaces. That's highly advanced and needs lots of time and memory,
- I had to upgrade to 114 MB but now I can keep SCOM, OOP and ProTools
- in memory at the same time. That's hugely powerful combination.
-
- >Thanks for that detailed info.. I was just considering upgrading RAM from 128
- >to 192 since RAM is so cheap. Where do you get OOP from. It sounds really
- >interesting. Just got back from looking at the KORG Z1 for my husband - it
- >has some good sounds, good for performance in realtime.
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- I'd suggest waiting for the OOP thang, everything is non-realtime then,
- but keep it option for the future. I'm doing it since it fits to
- all digital working, but at first it was a real pain I must say ;-).
- I downloaded it from a web page, was it in Harmony Central?!
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- Each piece I'm working has 600 MB reserved workspace and same amount
- scratch space for general audio. When piece has finished I dump it to
- a CD-R, the whole Protools project, final mixes etc. If I have to make
- a remix I can restore the whole environment in few minutes. It's
- also handy to have final mixes as files, since you can then put them
- without extra work to a final CD with Masterlist CD. CD-Rs are here
- about $1.5 so the storage costs are quite low. But fluent audio
- still needs more power than the fastest G3 Mac...some more waiting.
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