Getting to Work with the Avid S6 An Introduction and Learning Guide 1st Edition by Curt Schulkey ISBN 9780367629991 0367629992

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ISBN 10: 0367629992
ISBN 13: 9780367629991
Author: Curt Schulkey

Getting to Work with the Avid S6 An Introduction and Learning Guide 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I – Fundamental Knowledge

Welcome to the S6

Introduction

How to Learn

Chapter 1 – Beginning Work on the Avid S6

Starting from Scratch

Special Terms or Word Usage

Settings in General

Types of Settings

You Should Control the Settings

Settings for Beginners

Three Quick Tips

Outboard Keyboard

A Most Important Setting

LEDs Point the Way

An Overview of the S6 Surface

Track Modules

Surface Configurations

A Closer Look at the Master Modules

Master Module – Upper Section

Navigating Around in the Touchscreen

Navigating to the Home Screen

Master Module – Lower Section

Automation Module

Locate Section

Important Note on Button Name Changes

Chapter 2 – Starting the S6 Systems

Cut to the Chase: Startup Summary

Shutting-Down the S6 Systems

Monitor Levels, Room Mute, and Dim.

What’s Happening To Me? ! ? !

Using Cut

Using Dim

Level

Chapter 3 – Mixing with Mouse and Keyboard

How To Mix Without Knowing How To Use the Surface

How to Not Use the Surface

A Need for Metering

Session Design

Quckie Meters (This is my pet name, not an official name.)

Using the Transport Controls

Chapter 4 – Setting Up the Settings

Getting Set

System Settings

User Preferences

Title Files

The Relationship of Title Settings to User Preferences

Saving and Loading Preferences

To manually save or load a title to or from a file:

Automatically Using Preference Files

Changing Settings

Find the Settings Type That You Need

Chapter 5 – The Channel Strip

Mixing Like an Old-School Mixer

What Are All Those Buttons?

Modifier Keys

The Fader Section

The Fader

Fader Meters

Input Meter

OLED

Select Button

M, S, LG LEDs

The Knob Section

The Process Section

The Display Section

Part II – Basic Tools for Mixing

Chapter 6 – Basic Tools and Modes

Transport Controls

Navigating in the Timeline

Surface Modes

Get into Banking

Auto-Banking

“Scroll to Track” Banking

Locking A Strip

Setting Automation Modes with the Channel Strip

Using The F Button (Automation Mode Button)

F Button Limitations

Setting Automation Modes with the Soft Key Pads

Preview

Using Do To All or Do To Selected in Soft Key Pad

Latching Do To All/Selected

Matching Out of Automation

The Purpose of the Process Section

Multiple Plug-Ins

The In Buttons

Bypassing Functions

The Assignable Knob

Using the Assignable Knob in Place of the Knob Section

Using the Knob Section

Bringing a Parameter to the Surface in the Knob Section

Using the Knob Section Navigation Buttons

Knob Cluster Behavior

Using the Display Section

Changing the Display Layout

Waveform Display

Showing Automation on Track Display:

Bonus Techniques

Trim Mode Behavior

Chapter 7 – Meters!

Meter Needs

Set the Standard (Of Your Meters)

Meter Strategies

Quick and Dirty Meters

Spill Zone Meters

Metering That’s Too Cool (Complicated) for School

Fader Meters – What’s All That Flashing About?

Input Meter

Gain Reduction Meter

Underlying Automation Meter

Trim Meter

Chapter 8 – Three Ways to Approach Mixing

VCA’s and How They Started

Spilling VCA Masters

Using VCA Master Spilling

Automatic VCA Spilling

Expanding VCA GMs to Knobs

Sending VCA GMs to Attention Track Knobs

VCA Master Mixing: What Is It Good For?

Tips on Organizing for VCA masters

A Tale of Two Methods

Attention Mode or Strip Expand Knobs? Which One Is For You?

Strip Expand Knobs Mode – In a Nutshell

Attention Mode – In a Nutshell

Expand Knobs Mode – The Simpler Way

Attention Mode – The More Complicated Mode

Chapter 9 – Ready for Mixing at a Basic Level

How Do You Mix on the Surface?

How I Mix on the Surface

Part III – Intermediate Tools

Chapter 10 – More Advanced Features

Do to All, Do to Selected

Using Modifiers

Using the All Button on the Master Module

PEC/Direct – Monitoring After and Before the Recorder

Knob Control Displays

Chapter 11 – Soft Keys – Shortcuts to Commands

Intro to Soft Keys

Using Soft Key Pads

Appsets

What Page Is It On?

Navigating to Soft Key Pages Manually

Soft Key Pad Navigation Buttons

Alternate Soft Key Page Choices

QuickJump to Soft Key Pages

Page Menu

Some Soft Key Page Suggestions

Mode-Specific Pages

Chapter 12 – Spill Zones – What, Why, and Where Are They?

What Are Spill Zones?

Cut to the Chase: Spill Zones

How Do Spill Zones Work?

Configuring Spill Zones

Using Spill Zones

Spill Button Actions

Hobo Signs – Deciphering Cryptic Messages

Spill Button LED Rules

Bank and Nudge Button LED Rules

Element Colors

Spill Zone Examples

Chapter 13 – Track Layouts and the Tracks Screen

Track Layout Rules

What Is the Difference Between Track Layouts and Spill Zones?

Two Other Great Features of Track Layouts

Cut to the Chase – Track Layouts

The Tracks Screen

The Parts of the Tracks Screen

The Tracks Grid

Controls Strip

Scrollers

What You Can Do on the Tracks Screen

Using Layout Mode

Layout Sets and the Layout Grid

Preparing to Create Layouts

Layout Width

Clearing Unwanted Layouts

Creating Track Layouts

The Strip Scroller Explained

Selecting Tracks in the Track Grid

Saving or Loading the Layout Set

Recalling Track Layouts

Editing Track Layouts

More Uses of the Tracks Screen

Part IV – Options and Extras

Chapter 14 – Master Meter Modules

Cut to the Chase: To Use a Master Meter Module

Designating a Display Module as Master Meter Module

Creating Master Meter Layouts

Un-Designating a Master Meter Module

Chapter 15 – The Master Post Module

Why use the Master Post Module?

The Mixing Process (A Little Background)

The Mixer

Deliverable Elements

Using Post Layouts for the Master Post Module

Creating Post Layouts

Recalling Post Layouts

Using the Master Post Module Track Record Controls

Linking Strips

Using Basic Link

Using Link Master

Using Ready Lights

Using Master Record

Banking Strips

Banking and Locking MPM strips

Spilling Strips

VCA Spilling – An Alternative to Banking the Post Strips

Chapter 16 – The Joystick Module

Introducing the Joystick Module

Assigning Tracks to the Joystick Module

Locking Joystick Assignments

Writing Automation With the Joysticks

Using Pickup Mode

Other MJM Controls

Controlling Other Panning Parameters

Constraining Joysticks to Horizontal or Vertical

Linking Stereo Pairs

Chapter 17 – Snapshots

Navigating to Shapshot Soft Key Pages

Capturing and Saving Snapshots

Recalling Snapshots

Applying Snapshots

Chapter 18 – Expand Faders

Using Expand Faders

Create an Expand Fader Map

Recall an Expand Fader Map

Chapter 19 – Making Selections in the Pro Tools Timeline

What are Selections?

In and Out vs. Start and End?

Creating Selections with Mark In and Mark Out

Changing a Selection

Chapter 20 – Colors and Lights

Signals

Channel Strips

Function Colors

Soft Key Page Headers

Flashing Lights

Module Status on Startup

Chapter 21 – What is Next?

Editing on the Surface

Using Attention Expand Zones

Using Multiple Workstations

Using Multiple Post Modules

Customize Soft Key Pages

Customize Post Module Buttons

Customizing Jog Wheel Buttons

ATMOS Panning with the Joystick Module and the Touchscreen Function Editor

Assigning Unconventional Parameters to the Joysticks.

Appendix 1 – A Collection of Disconnected Facts and Features.

A Bit More on the Monitoring Screen and XMon

Speaker Output Selection

Audio Sources

Cue Paths (Monitor A, B, C, D)

Talkback and Listenback

Useful Soft Key Pages

Showing Hidden Tracks Without Un-Hiding Them

Copying All Automation from One Track to Another

Changing OLED Display Options

Assigning an Assignable Knob

Focusing an Application or Workstation

Locking Transport Controls to an Application or Workstation

Jog Wheel LEDs

Momentary Group Suspend

VCA Masters vs Aux Tracks vs Grouped Tracks

What’s So Bad About Auto Insert?

Console Keystroke Oddities

Automation Mode Status LEDs

What Good Are Automation Mode Status LEDs?

Cascading Outputs

Reconfiguring Transport Keys

Troubleshooting

Settings to Drive You Crazy

Details of Example in Chapter 9

Default Location of Settings Files

Appendix 2 – System Settings – User Preferences

Listing of System Settings

System – General

System – Surface

System – Workstation

User – Surface

User – Layouts

User – Knobs

User – Soft Keys

User – 3-D Panner

User – Workstation

User – Display Module

Surface

Local Options ()

Home Screen – Local Options

Tracks Screen – Local Options

Monitoring Screen – Local Options

Surface Config Screen – Local Options

Appendix 3 – Button Names Lookup

Button Functions of the Master Modules (by Button Name)

Appendix 4 – Soft Key Quick-Jump Shortcuts

Avid S6 Soft Key Page – Pro Tools App Set v2018.3

Avid S6 Soft Key Page – Pro Tools App Set v2019.5

Index

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