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Written August 05 2009
As sleak as the new UI looks, Protools 8 sucks for tracking vocals, unless you are using an outboard compressor or limiter. Unless I am missing something, there seems to be no way to remedy the issue of not being able enable plugins on armed tracks when recording. Any work around strategies that haven’t already been internetted? HELP. (without my compressor that looks more like ‘hELp’)
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Jesus what a mistake.
There must be a workaround. sounds like they caught the same "cold" the guys over at sony had when putting out AP6
i can never figure out if it is just lazy programmers, or lack of scope or lack of time. but it sucks when you find great new software that just doesn't go all the way. maybe I'm not understanding your question, but can't you route it through an aux channel?
I haven't used PT since v6 though so maybe it's different.
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the armed track picks up no effects and disables all buses on the track
 I'll bet that's related to latency compensation. Still sux, though.
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hmmm... that is dumb. I know the higher end PT hardware has soft limiting built in - not sure about the lower end ones. That should help some, then you could compress it after you've tracked it. 24 bit+ is pretty forgiving.
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i'm working on PT7 and that's like that too.
You could work partially outside of ProTools.
Design your signal path in Plogue Bidule, Console, or some other modular environment. Use Soundflower (Mac), Jack (Linux), or connect an output channel of your sound card to an input channel (Winblows) to route the output of your modular environment back into PT and record it. Still, it's f'ing crazy you have to do all that just to record vocals through a software channel strip. Signup to comment
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