Using the pencil tool to modify sound waves

[thebigcheese]

This is something I didn't know about until the other day when my professor showed it to me, but apparently you can use the pencil tool in Pro Tools to go in and redraw the shape of the waveform. Put it into "waveform" view and zoom way in to do it. I'm sure at least some of you already knew that, so I guess what I really want to know is what the point of that is. I think my professor suggested that you could use it to tame peaks or something, but you'd have to really know what you're doing to get the shape right. It just doesn't seem like it would be a very efficient tool would you could just use, say, a compressor. Am I missing something?

 

[second skin]

i imagine it would be useful for something like a snare drum where there was maybe just a rogue hit here or there. i usually use hit from elsewhere in that case though, or the gain plug.

i bet it could be cool for creating something non-traditional though.

 

[bennychico11]

because you have to zoom in all the way to do it, it's hard to use it on some important peaks that you might want to tame. Compressors/limiters are usually more ideal.

I use it to catch little digital glitches or pops that might happen.

 

[RD423]

I use it to catch little digital glitches or pops that might happen.

Never thought about that, I normally try to do the xclick or xpop that I have in my waves bundle thx for a new trick bennychico.