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chapter 7
Common Tasks with Pro Tools Academic
This chapter is designed to give new users spe-
cific methods for accomplishing common tasks
with your Pro Tools system.
Recording a Pro Tools Session
Before you record with Pro Tools Academic, you
first create a Pro Tools session, then prepare an
audio track for recording.
To create a Pro Tools session:
1 Verify the connections between your Mbox 2
Academic and your instrument or microphone.
2 Launch Pro Tools.
3 Choose File > New Session.
4 In the New Session dialog, set the session pa-
rameters as needed, or leave them at their de-
fault settings. (For details on New Session
settings, see the Pro Tools Reference Guide.)
5 Choose the audio drive where you want to
save your session.
6 Type a name for your session.
For the most complete information on using
Pro Tools, see the Pro Tools Reference Guide.
You can view an electronic PDF version of the
Reference Guide by choosing it from the
Pro Tools Help menu.
This chapter uses analog inputs in its exam-
ples of common tasks. To record digitally
through the Mbox 2 Academic S/PDIF in-
put, the steps are basically the same with
the following important exception: S/PDIF
must be enabled as the Pro Tools Clock
Source in the Hardware Setup dialog. For
more information, see “Digital Input and
Output” on page 44.
For connection information, see Chapter 6,
“Making Hardware Connections.”
New Session dialog