Please need some help!!ASAP!!!!

[kunalkho]

Hi, I need some help, I do rap/hip hop music and i use pro tools 8, although i have been writing for a long time, I am new to the record/mixing/mastering process. I was wondering if there is a good beginner/easy to learn program to use to mix and master my songs and it is compatible wiht pro tools, and what i mean by that incase someone doesnt know is i can exporgt the pro tools file into that program and mix and master it over in that program.

thanks

 

[shortedaman]

ive read your other posts and it seems you always want to take the longest and hardest way possible to record.

and there is no easy mastering mixing program. protools can do everything you need. otherwise you might as well be recording and doing the whole shebang with another software.

 

[CobusCo]

Get a book / tutorial

Kunalkho

Get an easy to follow tutorial type book. That should get you up to speed. "Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Recording Illustrated" use Pro Tools (Ver5?) examples. You could learn the basics of recording and mixing and how to use Pro Tools. I am sure there might be other books as well.

 

[Waltz Mastering]

I was wondering if there is a good beginner/easy to learn program to use to mix and master my songs and it is compatible with pro tools, and what i mean by that in case someone doesn't know is i can export the pro tools file into that program and mix and master it over in that program.

You could do everything within Pro tools but if you wanted another program to use as well, it might be worth checking something out like Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/ or Reason http://www.propellerheads.se/. I think Reason is designed to work pretty seamlessly with Pro tools.

 

[suprstar]

Yeah, I'm not following, why can't you use protools for your mixing/mastering? If you dont know what to do in protools, you arent gonna know what to do in reaper or anything else, they're all extremely similar.. If you're using digi hardware, then unless something changed in the last couple years, you NEED protools to use that hardware, nothing else is compatible. I dont know why you'd wanna track in protools, then export it to something else to mix/master..

But if you REALLY want to do that, then you can take the individual tracks and import them into any DAW you want. I doubt you'd be able to import that project back into protools later on, with your mixer settings, plugins, automations, etc..

It's an odd question, what are you trying to accomplish? Not having to learn the protools DAW software? You'd have to learn Reaper or Cubase or whatever instead, the learning curve isn't gonna be much easier in another software.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Mixing and mastering are not easy things to learn to do well. Your problem is not your software, it's that you've taken on a task that requires more effort and skill than you thought it needed.

The brand of circular saw you use isn't going to make the job of building a house any easier.

And by the way, there's nothing "ASAP" priority about your request. Please don't cry wolf like that.

G.