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SONG PRODUCTION IN PRO TOOLS
Welcome to the Downloads page for Mark Hornsby’s column
Song Production In Pro Tools. We’ll have new material every
month as our demo song develops over the course of 2008.

DISCLAIMER: All download material is protected by copyright law and is provided for educational purposes only. Reproduction and redistribution are strictly forbidden without the written permission of Music Maker Publications.

May 2008: Part 5 -- Recording Tools For Editing.

Mark Hornsby is hosting this material for us on his website. We expect a link to this content and an explanation of what’s in it within a few days. Thanks for your patience, and check back soon!

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April 2008: Part 4 -- Recording Vocals.

Import the vocal tracks from the following session into the Master session:

childhoodsendvocals.zip

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March 2008: Part 3 -- Tracking Electric Guitars and Keyboards.

March's downloadable session consists of a Pro Tools session with several virtual instrument tracks (Xpand!, Hybrid, Velvet), two stereo audio tracks, and one mono audio track. Download the session and import these tracks into the master session from last month:

childhoodsendkeysguitars.zip

If you don't have Hybrid or Velvet (Xpand! is a free plug-in by the way), you can download the bounced audio tracks and import them into your session as well:

childhoodsendkeysaudio.zip

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February 2008: Part 2 — Recording Drums, Bass, and Piano

For size considerations, this month’s ZIP file is broken down into two parts. The first (childhoodendmaster.zip) has the session folder, a Pro Tools session file, and an audio-files folder with some of the audio files. The second part (childhoodendmasteradditonalaudio.zip) is the rest of the audio files—which will need to be copied into the session's audio files folder before launching the session. After launching the session, you will want to import the scratch vocal track from the pre-production session so you will have it as we move forward over the next couple of months. (File>Import>Session Data) You’ll need Pro Tools 7 with the free Xpand! plug-in to make everything work properly.

These files contain everything in the original session, so you can see exactly how the parts go together—all tracks are 24-bit/48 kHz audio.

childhoodendmaster.zip

childhoodendmasteradditionalaudio.zip

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January 2008: Part 1 — Pre-Production

In this instalment we have the pre-production scratch session as described in Part 1 of the series.

System Requirements: Pro Tools Version 7.0 or later with the Digidesign Xpand! free virtual instrument plug-in, and 40 MB of available hard drive space.

Download and open the ZIP file below and you’ll find the Pro Tools Session file, cache, and a folder of Audio Files ready to play with. Have fun!

Childhood’s End Pre Production.zip