my settings in pro-tools

[orksnork]

as far as settings i mean various track settings....

i have a template a bring up when i'm starting to track...and it has my tracks set, inputs, outputs, and whatever useful plug-ins i know i'm going to go straight to on those tracks... (eq, comp whatever)


the thing i'd like to know....is after i track a pile of songs....is there anyway where i can export all my settings...as far as what plug-ins are on what tracks, the levels etc....without having to write it all out on a sheet of paper and go through and set it back up in the other songs...

it'd be helpful when i've got my drums sounding crispy and it's time to start doing guitars...or something like that

 

[bennychico11]

you can save all your plugin settings as user presets. click the arrow next to the presets to do so.

for automation/panning/volume, etc....best way I can think is just to create a session template (or just use the session you have set the way you like already), then when you create a new session to record just do a File--Import Session Data and choose the template session.
Although I would do separate mixes for each song anyway. Songs can vary so much as you go along. In other words a ballad mix isn't necessarily the same way you'd mix a fast, loud song.

 

[orksnork]

oh of course....

i'll explain a little better though...

you track two songs of drums

you go into song 1 and mess with things (levels and plug-ins) to get the sound you want

you open up the second song, and you want those settings to be applied to these tracks without doing manually....


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now obviously, ill save all of my plug-ins as presets and what have you...but i was wondering if there was a quicker way....

if i'm just looking to tighten up the drums so i dont have a ringing floor tom etc so it's nicer when i go to track the bass (as opposed to getting over the settings for the final mix)

 

[bennychico11]

now obviously, ill save all of my plug-ins as presets and what have you...but i was wondering if there was a quicker way....

if i'm just looking to tighten up the drums so i dont have a ringing floor tom etc so it's nicer when i go to track the bass (as opposed to getting over the settings for the final mix)

besides presets, or creating a session template with the plugins how you like them already arranged...not really

but making presets takes like 2 seconds. that's the way I'd go

 

[MessianicDreams]

i'm guessing this would all be done in the 1 sessions...otherwise levels/plug-in settings will be virtually useless if you're changing mic positions, gain straging etc..

 

[orksnork]

oh yeah....

im saying we set up a drum set for a quick demo of a few songs....we lay some tracks down....

in the interim of breaking down drums and getting amps in and up....i get the drums sounding better on the last track we did....in order to get those options set up for the others...it's either copy it all down....or do some other things that are perhaps a little less aggravating somenoe else showed me earlier

 

[foreverain4]

the new release of 7.3 finally allows you to save a complete chain of fx to a file, and import that to a new session by draggin and dropping from a browser. is this what you meant? it is not possible with any earlier version.

 

[orksnork]

ahh man that would be slick...
i dont know if i feel like shelling out 75 bucks for it though....

 

[orksnork]

woops only 50 bucks...

it's enticing

 

[Joseph Hanna]

Back to the original question..

You can create a new session. Not a session from a template.

Then

"Import session data". From there select one of the first two drum session icons. Click on that icon. Then import any or all of those tracks from the older session (minus the audio, which is selectable) into the newly created session.

You'll have the old session, with all the plugs with there pre-sets, aux's, master tracks, track names, routing ect with no audio.