Wednesday, March 5, 2014

New Configuration - Help speed up your workflow!

Yesterday I talked about a little trick I learned that helped me to create a pseudo set of hotkeys for Protools. Here are the steps to create your own.

Step 1
  • Open up the plugins you want to save. 
  • Place them in your Protools session where they are kinda out of the way (They'll open up in this spot everytime).
  • When you save the New Configuration, it will save all the settings on the plugins, so you don't have to open your unique settings each time. 
  • Here's another little trick: That little button that says "target button"...if you click that off, you can open multiple plugins at the same time. 


Step 2
  • Open the Window/Configurations/New Configuration... tab.


Step 3
  • Name the New Configuration something radically awesome. Click 'OK'.


Step 4
  • To access the Configuration, goto Window/Configurations and scroll to the bottom of the window.
  • You can also use the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+J (Cmd+Alt+J on a Mac...I think). That will bring up the Window Configurations window.




Step 5
  • Profit.