LATE-Night Studio Tip: Importing Session Data [Video]

Over the weekend I did quite a bit of recording. It was all topped off by an all-night drum-tracking session. Here’s a quick tip I recorded for you between songs.

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10 Responses to LATE-Night Studio Tip: Importing Session Data [Video]
  1. Steve
    October 19, 2009 | 4:15 pm

    Hmm Walnut House.. Very appropriate..
    ha ha ha you are all nuts in there. especially working ALL night on drums..

    And then to take time out to give a video…
    definitely nuts.

  2. Steve
    October 19, 2009 | 4:19 pm

    Question.. what is the mixing desk type you are using at Walnut. Didn’t quite see … Looked nice.

    BTW.. great tip..

    • Joe Gilder
      October 19, 2009 | 4:46 pm

      That was an older Pro Control control surface from Digidesign.

  3. shawn manigly
    October 20, 2009 | 4:53 pm

    I still can’t find how to get the send meters in mix view!!

    • Joe Gilder
      October 20, 2009 | 4:57 pm

      On a Mac, Command-click on the little arrow on the left of the send you want to see.

      I believe it’s Control-click on the PC.

      Did that work?

  4. shawn manigly
    October 20, 2009 | 8:41 pm

    yessssssssss. thanku!!!

  5. Jamie Cerniglia
    October 25, 2009 | 9:40 pm

    Another way to skin the cat is to create a session template after recording the first time. Save a copy of the session then clear all the audio from the session (do not delete) after the region bin is empty save the session as a template.

    • Joe Gilder
      October 26, 2009 | 6:28 am

      That’s true, Jamie. One other person suggested that. However, that’s not what I was doing in this session. I had already recorded the scratch guitar track to 13 songs. THEN we went back to track drums to each track. Creating a new session from a template wouldn’t help, because the sessions had already been created. This technique is for importing track settings into an EXISTING session.

      You’re right, though. The session template feature in Pro Tools 8 is a God-send.

      • Jamie Cerniglia
        October 26, 2009 | 9:51 am

        I didn’t realize the drums were being added to sessions that were already created. You are 100% right that import session data is the way to go.

        Great job with the studio videos. I hope to post my own soon ( read: at some point after I clean my studio )

        • Joe Gilder
          October 26, 2009 | 10:25 am

          Awesome. Let me know when yours are up. I’d love to see them.

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