Members mobobog Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 Hi people... so... i got pro tools. I got a Mbox 2... i sold my old interface and everything. A couple of questions: 1. Any good site to go for pro tools users (apart from digidesign of course ) 2. Any good free resources on the web? plug ins etc... 3. Is there any special tweak (apart from buffer size), or trick to achieve the lowest latency with virtual instruments? Thanks guys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 One more... can you install pro tools in 2 partitions in the same computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrJoshua Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 Apart from the digidesign website ... does that include their users' forum? Because I've found it to be a very helpful resource. duc.digidesign.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Myshell Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 yes...the DUC is very helpful and informative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 Thanks guys... i know about the DUC i guess it is the place to go right? Can you use the mbox with other compatible asio apps? Can you recommend me some good and cheap (if that exist) plug ins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mmmiddle Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 No. But you can use other interfaces (like M-Audio, Presonus) with your PT in addition to the MBox 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 No. But you can use other interfaces (like M-Audio, Presonus) with your PT in addition to the MBox 2. So if you have the mbox connected then PT will accept inputs from other interfaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PandaScreamBass Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 So if you have the mbox connected then PT will accept inputs from other interfaces? don't think so, but I'm pretty sure you can use other audio apps with the asio drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PandaScreamBass Posted November 16, 2007 Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 for plugins try massey plugins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 16, 2007 for plugins try massey plugins Thanks those are the ones i was looking for... i couldnt remember the name He has some free ones right? in their page they dont specify wich are free I found the ASIO driver is installed when you install PT great. I am looking at all the free RTAS plugs at dontcrack.com but i would like to know what is worth trying first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 All the Massey plug ins come in free versions... the downside is that you can't save settings with the free versions, but they're otherwise uncrippled. One of the best investments you can make IMHO is to buy a copy of the Fxpansion VST -> RTAS wrapper. It's around $100, but it will allow you to use the vast majority of the countless VST plug-ins with your Pro Tools LE software. Here's a few good free VST's to get you started. You can find many more over at www.kvraudio.com and at www.sadglad.com/freevstplugins6.html TriTone Digital has a few freebies IIRC, as does Voxengo and Kjaerhusaudio. http://www.voxengo.com/group/freevst/ http://www.tritonedigital.com/ http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/products.php As far as using your MBox with other audio applications, as long as you install the ASIO drivers for it, you should be able to do so just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 17, 2007 Members Share Posted November 17, 2007 Ohmforce Fromage is free and is useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 17, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 17, 2007 Thanks guys... Isnt the VST wrapper too CPU expensive? So you will loose your setting every time you open the session with the free massey plugs? Hey Ken, how do you use that plug? i Used to have it as VST but never used it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Thanks guys...Isnt the VST wrapper too CPU expensive?So you will loose your setting every time you open the session with the free massey plugs?Hey Ken, how do you use that plug? i Used to have it as VST but never used it There's really hardly any CPU overhead with the FXpansion wrapper. I highly recommend it! Yes, you lose your settings every time you close the session with the free versions of the Massey plug ins. You can process the audio through them (bus the track through the plug in and re-record it to a new track) and get around it that way, but if you close the session down, the plug in itself will revert to the default settings the next time you open the session. That's the major difference between the free and "paid for" versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 17, 2007 Members Share Posted November 17, 2007 Hey Ken, how do you use that plug? i Used to have it as VST but never used it I use it either to sort of "eff up" sounds or as filter sweeps. Phil heard one of my recordings of a drum break filtering and asked how I did it. I processed the drums twice, doing a sweep manually with Frohmage, and then hard-panned them. Sounds great in the right instance. I've also used them for vocals, lining 'em up just after the actual "full-bodied" unadulterated vocal, and added some reverb to it so it's in the background and sounds odd and ghostly. That kind of thing. Depends on what you're into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 17, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 17, 2007 REally good ideas indeed ken... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Yeah, cool stuff Ken. :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 19, 2007 Moderators Share Posted November 19, 2007 The vst wrapper is essential. Lot's of good free stuff from Digital Fishphones that's vst but works great after the wrap. Massey is way beyond worth the price. Great compressor. And don't forget the series III of the included Digirack plugins. The eqs are plenty good. Zero vibe but high quality and fairly invisible. The Tritone stuff is cool. I love their Phase adjustment plug... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2007 Thanks for the advices... i think i am getting the adapter, i used the Kjaerhus stuff a lot... and a free vsti called the cheeze machine...I thought i would have to miss them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 I've used the TriTone stuff before (the demo stuff) and thought it was good although I felt that the interface for the EQ was difficult to use in terms of layout (conceptually, it's easy, it's just more difficult to adjust). I've heard nothing but good things about the Massey plug-ins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 is pro tools a cpu hog? I am running it on a p4 3.2 Ghz, 512 RAM (i know i am supposed to have 768), and it keeps giving a message that interrups took too long or something like that and recording will stop... Then i realize that in the playback engine it says 2 processors, and when i see the performance tab in the applet that appears when you press crtl+alt+del it appears like if my processor was 2 cores... there are no p4 2 core, are there? I wonder if this is some configuration error that is screwing protools performance, or are those 256 MB of ram missing that critical? :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 21, 2007 Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 is pro tools a cpu hog? I am running it on a p4 3.2 Ghz, 512 RAM (i know i am supposed to have 768), and it keeps giving a message that interrups took too long or something like that and recording will stop... The first thing that I see that sends up my red flags is the RAM. I think you'd really need to have 1G minimum to get just about anything done, 2G ideally. Now this is, forgive the pun, comparing apples to, uh, PCs, but I'm running a really old Mac G4 with a 1.5GHz processor and 1G of RAM (I think it was), and I get 24 tracks with tons of plug-ins and reverb plug-ins, and the system doesn't choke at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members perceive Posted November 21, 2007 Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 One of the best investments you can make IMHO is to buy a copy of the Fxpansion VST -> RTAS wrapper. It's around $100, but it will allow you to use the vast majority of the countless VST plug-ins with your Pro Tools LE software. I have to agree with that 100%. not only do fxpansion make a wonderful drum kit this wrapper is worth its price for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members perceive Posted November 21, 2007 Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 The first thing that I see that sends up my red flags is the RAM. I think you'd really need to have 1G minimum to get just about anything done, 2G ideally.Now this is, forgive the pun, comparing apples to, uh, PCs, but I'm running a really old Mac G4 with a 1.5GHz processor and 1G of RAM (I think it was), and I get 24 tracks with tons of plug-ins and reverb plug-ins, and the system doesn't choke at all. Agree - often a RAM upgrade gives a huge boost... this will most likely be much more apparent when Leopard is more common... not only supported but active vendor development for 64 bit.. (i.e. digi making 64 bit drivers.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted November 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 The first thing that I see that sends up my red flags is the RAM. I think you'd really need to have 1G minimum to get just about anything done, 2G ideally. Now this is, forgive the pun, comparing apples to, uh, PCs, but I'm running a really old Mac G4 with a 1.5GHz processor and 1G of RAM (I think it was), and I get 24 tracks with tons of plug-ins and reverb plug-ins, and the system doesn't choke at all. I was planing on getting a new computer any way, once my credit card gets better from the punishment i have been giving to it I dont really want to spend in more ram for this computer... i guess ill have to reinstall cubase and work with cubase a bit more I have been able to get fairly complex cubase+reason (rewire) projects in this machine... That is a modest computer by modern standars ken, It is great the results you can achieve. I was planning on building my PC maybe i should consider a mac... I guess those gorgeus new iMacs would do fine with an external drive right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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