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Digidesign's Pro Tools 8 comes with many helpful tools to help you in the mixing phase of your work. Whether trying to save time when planning your record and mix sessions, to get more visibility into available options for mixing, or to make your session go smoother by using expanded views, you will find that the more you know about Pro Tools, the more powerful it becomes. When getting ready for your next mix, try these tips and tricks to help you get more out of your mixing session.
Use Templates to Save Time
When mixing a large session with dozens of tracks, you may find it helpful to set up a Pro Tools session from a pre-established set of recording and mixing templates. New to Pro Tools 8 LE is a Quick Start wizard (Figure 1), and within it, easy access to a large repository of session templates organized for easy selection.
Setting up a mix session can be cumbersome. You can quickly create a session with the tracks you need, automatically populated with commonly used plug-in effects, and sends and returns mapped to Auxiliary tracks to keep session size and your systems hardware resources down to a minimum when applying the same effect to multiple tracks. Session templates (pre-established, or templates you create and personalize to your liking) can help save all of the time it...