Avid Coffee & Consoles: S4 & S6 — From Navigation to Automation

This session includes practical tips and strategies to help manage sessions of any size by formatting windows and views, the Pro Tools Edit Window, fast track searching and justification, wheel functions, and more. We also compare several common operations from ICON family consoles and explore the equivalent functions on S4 and S6.

00:00 - Introduction
01:55 - System Overview and Configuration
05:03 - Justifying tracks in Pro Tools from the desk
06:20 - Moving the Playhead from the Jog Wheel
06:45 - Defining an Edit Selection with Mark In + Mark Out
07:30 - Removing an existing Edit Selection
08:10 - Setting a Favorite EQ & Dynamics Plug-In
09:10 - Selecting Multiple Tracks
09:45 - Soft Keys panel Overview
10:27 - Adding a Favorite Dynamics to Selected Tracks
12:10 - Managing Plug-In, Send & Pan Windows in Pro Tools
15:10 - Inserts Chain View and setting the Orientation
16:15 - Cycling through multiple EQ Plug-Ins on a track
17:50 - Local Expand for EQ and Dynamics
19:00 - Using Spill Zones to access Local Expand
21:15 - Pro-Q3 - Setting User Default
22:20 - Using Clear and Option Touch to Default Parameters
23:05 - Contrasting EQ and Inserts view on Pro-Q3
24:45 - Managing Windows - Soft Keys
28:35 - Basic Grouping
31:15 - Q & A - Track Presets
33:55 - Deleting a Group
34:45 - Scroll to Track & Scroll into View
37:15 - Insert Parameters Local, Expand & Faders
41:05 - Setting Automation Modes for Strips
42:00 - Using Command + Control to view Breakpoints
42:55 - Auto Match + GR Meters next to Faders
44:06 - Automation Enabling for Plug-Ins
48:00 - Advanced Automation - Preview, Capture & Snapshots
54:35 - Viewing Track Names, Workstations and Values on Scribbles
58:30 - Attention Knob Zones
01:02:45 - Soft Key Customization

Watch all Avid Coffee & Consoles videos:    • Avid Coffee & Consoles  
Learn more about Avid S4: https://www.avid.com/s4
Learn more about Avid S6: https://www.avid.com/s6