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Pro Tools & Melodyne Essential Melodyne Essential now comes bundled with Pro Tools 2020.11, so lets explore what it offers. After what seemed like a long period of what I’d describe as ‘tweaks’ from Avid, November 2020 was a month of satisfyingly significant developments. There was of course the release of Pro Tools | Carbon, Avid’s first piece of in‑house audio hardware for roughly a decade and a return to a type of product many believed Avid were no longer active in. Carbon has...

Pro Tools: Bus & Group Compression Avid Pro Tools Tips & Techniques Screen 1: The green fader works like a group fader on a traditional analogue mixer, controlling the levels of all the channels that are being fed through it. The light blue fader on the right is a VCA fader: it doesn’t actually pass audio, it simply tells the faders within the group what level they should be. For simple setups they work identically, but as things get more complex the comparison falls apart. We explore B...

Pro Tools: Ableton Link & Record Arm Avid Pro Tools Tips & Techniques We explore Ableton Link, record arm options and other new features from the 2020.9 update. Released in September, Pro Tools 2020.9 coincided with a new version of EuCon, and brought proper support for Folder Tracks in the Avid Control app. This, for me, has been the most significant new feature, though version 2020.9 also made some changes to the way Pro Tools works with Cloud services, as well as adding a couple of e...