this is weird i need the help of Pro tools users ASAP!!

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dumpsters....lol. no, we don't. we were taking stupid pictures for the website a long time ago (at like 2 am) and that was a result.
(yeah i know....)


anyway yeah you'd probably want to upgrade your system for protools. i mean, if you get a digi 001, to upgrade you computer you'd just need mb, cpu and memory. for the setup i have, (msi mb---very good for protools, 1800 athlon, and 256 mb ram) the current price is like 200...thats pretty cheap. Just stay away from the p4s, the numbers i've seen (atleast with protools) are TERRIBLE and much more $$$

if you already know cubase, you might want to stick with it, but it's always helpful to know protools. i'm very happy with it.
 
I'm not surprised that he upsampled your sessions to 24 bit. Most people will do that when you come in with a session and you want to do overdubs.

I'm also not surprised that he gave ayou a bunch of mono files. people who never work with anything but Pro Tools don't understand how the rest of the world works, they get used to the Pro Tools concept of a mono track for everything, and a stereo track being 2 mono tracks, etc.

I'm sorry you got burned, but the reality is there are a lot of crappy engineers out there. I don't understand why you just didn't rent studio time and mix it yourself? Anyway, to run Pro Tools LE and get decent performance with 28 tracks going, you will need a pretty powerful PC, something in the 1.6GHz to 2GHz range.

If you need any more help, I have a Pro Tools MixPlus system and a little spare time.
 
charger said:
I'm also not surprised that he gave ayou a bunch of mono files. people who never work with anything but Pro Tools don't understand how the rest of the world works, they get used to the Pro Tools concept of a mono track for everything, and a stereo track being 2 mono tracks, etc
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I'd have to disagree with that. I would think using interlaced stereo files is more abnormal than 2 mono L&R channels and I don't use ProTools. Now we are seeing what happens if you do want to be compatible with other systems. Mono channels are always compatable while interlaced are not.

Most 'stereo' keyboard patches are just mono samples with either 2 patches layered and panned L/R or a stereo reverb/delay/chorus added. Usually the keyboard's onboard effects are of lesser quality than a good outboard unit. When you add a bunch of bass left/treble right 'stereo' patches together you can get some pretty off balance mixes.

For future reference I would recomend always recording keys in mono unless there is some specific effect that is vital to the recording and always use mono L/R files unless you are absolutely sure the tracks will never leave your system.

I realize that doesn't really help the current situation but that is my 2 cents.

One possible solution would be to just import the needed audio tracks (vocals, guitars, etc) and then redo all the audio recordings of the midi tracks since those are probably the 'stereo' tracks that are causing all the confusion. If you still have the original Cubase files than it shouldn't be too hard. Or you could just insert the newer audio files into the old Cubase session.
 
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