It works with Business and Ultimate.

Honestly, updating your OS is worth it if you're wanting to get into Pro Tools. Pro Tools 8 will only work with 32-bit Business and Ultimate, and you don't want to miss out on 8. If you're serious at all about getting into PT, you'll upgrade your system to meet the reqs (including RAM).

yea, that's what i meant to type (i haven't been on protools in so long) lol


but yea, i've done that, but no matter what size i put it as, it doesn't work, and even playing back music on a regular program, like windows media player, the music is choppy at times


any idea's what i can do to fix my computer? better sound card? RAM upgrade?


*and thanks for the recording tip*

Pro Tools is optimized for 2GB+ RAM. Your sound card doesn't matter because your Mbox handles the A/D and D/A conversion and playback. That being said, unless you're running all of your computer audio through your Mbox, it shouldn't change what's going on with WMP or any other software.

A big part of it is whether or not you're using a Single, Duo or Quad-Core processor. If you don't optimize your cores, your system will not operate properly, either.
What processor(s) are you running?

I'll have to look into upgrading my OS then sometime soon once I get some extra money, or can find a dl. I have 2gbs of ram though and you just said PT is optimized at 2gbs+ so I am good as far as that goes. Thanks for the info though Jesse it's greatly appreciated.

P.S. Did you ever export the Thrice song in surround?

Unfortunately, until next year, i'm using a dell, pentium 4 processor, 1.25G of Ram

time for a RAM upgrade i guess?

I'm doing a little bit more to the mix, so I haven't exported it yet. I'll let you guys know when I do, though.

Yeah, I'd put as much in as you can haha...


What percentage of your processing power are you allowing PT to have?

um...how do i find out how much processing power i'm giving it? lol

There should be a drop-down on your Playback Engine menu that you can use to select anything from 5-95%.

and i guess i should put the percentage pretty high?

i keep mine on 99%, and i make sure its the only thing running on my computer. i want the new PT, but that means i need a new fucking computer. fucking PPC based powerbook doesnt work with any new software anymore. that intel switch killed me.

Once I get a legit job after college, the first think I will budget is the 10k for HD. I have been fooling around with it at the communications school this semester and it makes a world of difference. I have a friend that still stands by cubase, but he has yet to touch HD. He is all talk.

You'd better make it about 15...

WOOOOOO PRO TOOLS 8!

I got my computer working well again and am finally finishing recording my cover of Come Close, just some final mixing tomorrow and it'll be done



and congrats to jesse, is it awesome?

It's amazing. The new GUI is so sweet and all of my plug-ins work, too.

Freaking sweet.

i really wish there was an inexpensive way to learn how to use protools better, before i go to school for it next year, 'cause even though i've had it for a long time now, i'm still definitely a beginner =/

You ever use the manual? Seriously just messing around with it for an hour a day and you'll become a master in no time

Sort of... Don't use the term "master" too loosely. Some of the developers that write PT aren't even considered "masters." You can become proficient, but PT takes more than a few hours a day to master.

yeah haha. I might just build a LE setup to do all my mixes on since I can record on the HD setup for free at school.


I just sat down with protools for the first time this semester to edit, mix, and master. I learned as I went along, and now I know more about protools than any of the students at SU that take the damn classes.

hm, i guess i should experiment a lot more with all the different buttons and such, lol


i can't get any of my plug-ins to work though, at least i don't think , before pro tools starts up, it always asks me to authorize something so i can use a certain feature, and i always end up just saying quit 'cause i have no idea how to do it

i'm getting some stupid latency in pt7le. how do i reduce that? i think jesse mentioned something before but my computer is sucking and i can't scroll through pages right now for some reason.

setup > playback engine > playback buffer size

set it to 128 samples when recording

set it to 2048 samples when mixing

thanks dude

mmhmm

just finished a quick recording of your guardian angel by red jumpsuit, not completely satisfied with it, but it'll do for now, haha



and by quick, i mean it took 5 hours

Edit: oh yea, randomly, halfway through the whole process, protools started feeding me back some annoying ass buzzing, like, if i wasn't playing the recording, i would hear the buzzing through my headphones, and then when i was playing the recording, if a track was just empty, non-recorded, space, it would play back the buzz while recording. Then only way i found to it was to make the volume 0 on every tracks "empty spaces".

Did you put your computer to sleep/hibernate when your interface was plugged in or PT was running?

i restarted my computer while the mbox was plugged in, if that counts?

Yeah, it hates that.

fuck, lol

ok, so, after getting some money from Christmas, i've decided to really get things going with acquiring the necessary equipment for recording drums.


i have an Mbox2 mini, which has only two inputs, so i know i'm gonna need a mixer (unless it'd be smarter/better to get another interface?).

and yea, i don't know, what should i look to invest in that would be in my best interests? (i know the mics, but what else?)



oh yea, i still don't fully understand the concept of preamps, like, am i supposed to have a preamp for each and every drums mic?


Edit: holy shit, should i get this??

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ixer?sku=501106

My mate has an mbox something, and he only has the two inputs.. he cant get any desk to work with it tho - like for recording drums... is there something missing..?

also...

think this is worth getting?

http://store.digidesign.com/us/index.cfm?p...p;categoryid=32

no and no.

Yeah dude, you need a preamp for every microphone,otherwise, the signal will be incredibly low.

I don't see the point in getting that huge ass mixer because you only have 2 inputs going into your computer.
You'd need an input for every preamp, unless you just want all those signals going into just 2 inputs.
And that doesn't make sense because you wouldn't have much control later on, when mixing.

yea, i don't think i really realized just how big and unnecessary that was until i looked at it more, ha


and any suggestions of what would be best for me to do/buy?


Edit: maybe a better way to ask this, for anyone who does their own recordings, how do YOU record drums? What equipment do you use?

I personally do not record drums because i lack the equipment to do it at home.
You CAN record drums with two microphones..but you know.

But you pretty much nailed it, you need a new interface or a mixer, which is not ideal but will work.
It's really up to you to figure out what you need because it depends on your budget etc.

hm, i found some stuff that seems to be what i need, but i'm no expert at this stuff, so can get some opinions?

M-Audio ProFire 2626

TASCAM US-1641

M-Audio ProjectMix I/O

TASCAM FW-1884 FireWire Audio/MIDI Interface and DAW Control Surface

bought one of these on ebay to do some line level recordings, pretty sure it was stolen cuz of the price, my gain someones loss

i had a tascam us-122 at one point (pretty sure monty has one) and i had really bad luck with it, as did alot of other people on forums and stuff, i remember asking monty about it though a long time ago and he never had trouble with his. i have always liked m-audio...never had a problem with it.

hm...


well, would all those work with protools? like, am i looking in the right direction right now? is there anything i should know to not even look at because it doesn't work with protools/doesn't work with protools well?

anyone any good with antares 4?

you need m-audio to run protools m-powered. you need a digi design product to run LE

so while procrastinating for midterms, i decided to unpack all of my gear and set up my recording shit. i hadn't used the mbox 2 pro yet, so i was just fucking around with it. didn't do any mixing besides panning and levels because pro tools is a bitch if you don't know what you're doing. and i also can't figure out how to use antares for the vox.. i always end up sounding like t-pain. i think it ended up sounded pretty decent so far.

jimmy eat world - here you me

give me pointers, i don't know what i'm doing

edit: i really should have used a click haha

yeah a click would have helped. Sounds pretty good for not knowing what you are doing.

thanks

I have a vox ad50vt..
i want to record into my computer how do i do this..
it has a line out but i odnt know what to do from there.. should i just mic
it and run that into the computer

mic it, or for shittier quality you could run line out directly into your comps aux in (mic in) via 1/8" adapter

So my friend just asked me to a vocal recording for her, for a scholarship audition tape

just wondering, what are some restrictions i should be aware of? as in things i should not tamper with, with the recording

i assume they would want/i should make as raw of recording as possible

Yeah, maybe very, VERY light (2:1 ratio, high threshold) compression, but I wouldn't screw with it much. You don't want to be the reason she doesn't get the cashola.