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Building with FX

Building with FX - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Building with FX

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- [Instructor] Now let's add some extra dimension to the sound, using the Onboard effects. We can use these to finish off the sound in a nice way and also explore things that we can do to help it fit better in a mix, alright? So, the effects on Xpand are actually sends, okay? So the way that they work is that if you think of each of these individual parts as a track in your DAW, and you're sending audio to another effects track, or an aux as they call it in Pro Tools, then that's really the way to visualize using these different effects here, alright? And a lot of them are spatial effects and that really makes sense, (synthesized tones) and that really makes sense for use with a send of some sort and for working in parallel. So let's put these on. (synthesized bells) Let's start pushing some things to the hall. How about the bells? They're a little heavy. (synthesized bells) Let's do a larger size. (synthesized bells) Hold on. Not nuts about that reverb. Let's do dance hall…

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