User manual
Table Of Contents
- Soundtrack Pro User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to Soundtrack Pro
- Setting Up Your System
- The Soundtrack Pro Interface
- Getting Started With Soundtrack Pro
- Working With Multitrack Projects
- Working in the Timeline
- Moving Around in the Timeline
- Working With Tracks, Busses, and Outputs in the Timeline
- Editing Audio Clips in the Timeline
- Selecting Audio Clips
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Audio Clips
- Moving Audio Clips
- Snapping Clips to Clips on Adjacent Tracks
- Resizing Audio Clips
- Creating Crossfades Between Audio Clips
- Truncating Overlapping Audio Clips
- Splitting and Joining Audio Clips
- Transposing Tagged Audio Clips
- Changing the Offset of an Audio Clip
- Changing a Clip’s Playback Mode
- Replacing the Source Audio in a Clip
- Removing Audio Clips
- Working With Markers
- Working in the Mixer
- Steps in Mixing
- Working With Channel Strips in the Mixer
- Adding Channel Strips to the Mixer
- Selecting Channel Strips
- Reordering Channel Strips
- Copying Channel Strips
- Setting Channel Strip Volume Levels
- Setting Channel Strip Pan Position
- Setting Channel Strip Output
- Muting and Soloing Channel Strips
- Enabling Track Channel Strips for Recording
- Renaming Channel Strips
- Changing a Channel Strip Icon
- Showing and Hiding Sections of the Mixer
- Using the Channel Strip Level Meters
- Removing Channel Strips
- Working With Effects and Sends in the Mixer
- Setting the Overall Project Volume Level
- Listening to a Temporary Mono Mix
- Recording Audio in the Mixer
- Recording Automation in the Mixer
- Creating Multiple Mixes
- Things to Keep in Mind While Mixing
- Working in the Waveform Editor
- Getting Started With Audio File Projects
- Supported Audio File Formats
- Creating and Opening Audio File Projects
- Closing Audio File Projects
- Saving Audio File Projects
- Setting the Time Ruler Units in the Waveform Display
- Choosing the Sample Units in the Waveform Display
- Zooming In and Out in the Waveform Editor
- Using the Global Waveform View
- Viewing an Audio File in Spectrum View
- Playing Audio Files in the Waveform Editor
- Editing Audio Files in the Waveform Editor
- Processing Audio Files
- Working With Actions
- Applying Actions
- Editing Actions
- Turning Actions On and Off
- Reordering Actions
- Using the Action Insert Bar
- Reversing the Order of the Actions List
- Flattening Actions
- Comparing the Project With and Without Actions
- Comparing the Last Two Actions
- Deleting Actions
- Limitations of Actions That Change the File’s Length
- Analyzing an Audio File
- Using Markers in the Waveform Editor
- Scripting Actions in the Waveform Editor
- Getting Started With Audio File Projects
- Working With Video in Soundtrack Pro
- Working With Audio Effects
- Realtime and Processing Effects
- Audio Effects Included With Soundtrack Pro
- Working With Realtime Effects
- Working in the Effects Tab
- Adding Realtime Effects
- Adjusting Realtime Effect Parameters
- Chaining and Reordering Realtime Effects
- Bypassing Realtime Effects
- Adding Sends to Tracks
- Reordering Sends
- Choosing the Bus to Which a Send Is Routed
- Adjusting Send Volume
- Adjusting Send Pan Position
- Bypassing Sends
- Automating Realtime Effect Parameters
- Resetting Realtime Effects to Their Default Settings
- Removing Realtime Effects
- Advanced Settings for Realtime Effects
- Working With Processing Effects
- Working With Effect Presets
- Working With Automation
- Working With Envelopes
- Track, Bus, and Output Envelopes
- Master Envelopes
- Adding Envelope Points
- Selecting Envelope Points
- Moving Envelope Points
- Changing the Values of Envelope Points Numerically
- Changing the Position of Envelope Points Numerically
- Viewing and Editing Envelope Point Details
- Nudging Envelope Points
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Envelope Points
- Deleting Envelope Points
- Automating Effect and Send Parameters
- Recording Automation Data
- Working With Timeslices
- Working With Envelopes
- Recording Audio in Soundtrack Pro
- Using Control Surfaces With Soundtrack Pro
- Exporting Multitrack Projects
- Using Soundtrack Pro With Apple Professional Applications
- Using Apple Loops Utility
- Soundtrack Pro Keyboard Shortcuts
- Audio Basics
- Solutions to Common Problems and Customer Support
- Index
Index 309
system setup 13–21
connecting audio equipment 15–19
control interface 21
example hardware setups 19–21
FireWire audio interface 21
overview 13
powered speakers 19
software installation 13
system considerations 13–14
USB audio interface 20
video output devices 22
T
tabs
described 24
detaching/reattaching 48
keyboard shortcuts 279–280
reordering 47
tagged audio clips 115–116
tagged audio files 60, 263–278
tags 263, 265, 266
Tags tab 264, 265–266
tail effect 86, 170, 171
takes. See recording audio
Tap tempo delays 203
tempo 84, 192–193, 263
temporary mono mix 140
text, showing in Toolbar 50
threshold 197
timbre 288
time-based effects 202–204
Time-based format 52–53, 82, 83, 98, 104, 233
timecode
aligning audio clips to 98, 191
MIDI Timecode 25
Time-based format 53
time markers and 190
Time ruler units and 183, 190
timecode format 190
Time Code Offset synchronization settings 78
Time display 26, 32, 52–53, 190
time format
described 190
projects 98
setting 82–83
tracks 104
Timeline
adding audio files to 87–89
controls 28
editing audio clips in 107–119
Global view 97
headers 27–28
keyboard shortcuts 282–283
moving audio clips in 109–110
navigating in 94–99
overview 26–27
preferences 75–76
recording audio in 236–239
scrubbing projects in 54
setting track height in 97
track controls 27–28
working in 93–122
zooming in/out 95–96
Timeline controls 27, 28, 153
Timeline editing tools 26
time markers 120–122, 190, 191
Time ruler 27, 98, 190
Time Ruler units 148
time signature 37, 84
Time Signature pop-up menu 37
Timeslices 229–233
Timeslice selection area, changing 232–233
Time Stretch command 166
time stretching audio files 160, 166
tip-ring (TR) connectors 17
tip-ring-sleeve (TRS) connectors 17
tone 198
tone color 288
tonic 85
Toolbar 24, 25, 49
Touch mode 228
TR (tip-ring) connectors 17
Track area 27
track controls 27–28, 90, 102–106
track envelopes 220
Track Height control 28, 97
track pan envelopes 220
tracks
adding 99
adding sends to 212
adjusting pan position 102
adjusting volume 102
changing icon for 101
copying 101
described 93
effects 104–105
enabling for recording 236
envelopes for 106
exporting 248–249
keyboard shortcuts 284
Motion 258–259
moving 101
moving audio clips between 110
muting 103
numbered 101
overview 90
pan positions 129
removing 106
renaming 101
routing to busses 91
selecting 100