Getting Started with Pro Tools
With Anthony Falcone, for LANDR Courses. The same subject as the books, in the format that replaced them. 102 video lessons, about four hours. Take the course.
The same job, four formats later
Teaching somebody Pro Tools has now been, for me, a boxed DVD set, a subscription website, two books, and a streaming course on a platform that started life as an automated mastering service.
The delivery keeps changing and the actual problem does not move at all. A beginner opening a digital audio workstation for the first time is not confused by the software. They are confused about what a recording is. What a track is, why there is a gap between what they played and what got captured, and which of the four hundred visible controls they have permission to ignore for now. Every format I have taught this in has failed in the same place, which is starting with the interface instead of with that.
A note on the title
This course started life as Producing Electronic Music in Pro Tools, which is the title in my CV and the one I still think of it by. LANDR renamed it Getting Started with Pro Tools somewhere along the way. It is one course, not two.
The evidence is sitting in their own URL, incidentally. The preview link still loads courseid=edm-pro-tools, which is the original title fossilised in a slug nobody updated when the marketing did. Every platform I have ever published on has one of these somewhere. :)
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