what we're gonna do now is start a cool little trick that will save you a lot of
time I'm going to select all the drums and create a group that I'm gonna call
drums and if you really want to be an over the top you can make the letter
that turns the group on it off d for drums there you go
in DM I'm going to turn that off and then I'm gonna create a VC a master I'll
explain that I'm gonna assign to the group drums and I'm gonna call it VC a
drum there's a method to this madness then I'm gonna probably make a group for
the bass call it base assign it be okay make a VC a and assign it to that group
and call it VC a bass
so that happened now why what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna select all my VCS
and put them together and you might be wondering so why would he make a group
for one track for this reason and not have to do write in my session a bunch
of VC is that actually controlling the entire song everything in the song is
slave to these VCS and I have this let me show you I want to switch to the
screen so you can see what's going on what you're seeing right now is what I
have on my iPad you can scroll around and this is a new free app from avid and
it's actually really really useful from this screen that's sitting right next to
me right here I don't have to scroll around so for big sessions this is a
good trick and also at the end of the mix I can massage the entire mix right
here with these 8 faders let me show you a couple of things on this app that are
really great I can use the track type selector to say I only want to see VCAs
and I only see VCAs which now allows me to say listen to just the drums and the
bass alternate vocal back on without having
to scroll around here I can focus here and this is all my VCS it's pretty
awesome all the windows that are really awesome on this app this is the mixer
window you have a tracks window right now I'm only watching VCAs but if I'm
watching the whole thing it's organizing all your tracks by your colors and you
can look at what's going on which is pretty awesome that's great there's a
channel window so if I select the kick for example I can go the channel and
everything is related that channel is now available so inserts inputs yes
inserts for example if I select the bass drum sub right here I can look at the
different inserts on it I can hit the channel strip and the controls of the
channel strip are here and a lot of it is actually very usable a lot more
usable than any of these apps I've seen before and you can change the gain and
stuff like that it's pretty cool like if we want the high end to be super heavy I
can do it this way and it works it works it is fast it's crazy fast like that was
a little that was a little bit bold let's go back down to three TVs let me
demystify this and show you what I found so far is the most useful I show you the
VCA thing that's awesome the other thing when it's great for is sense because
when you have four or five six sands on a channel it can be really difficult to
see what's going on especially since it's gonna make your mixer really really
really tall with this you hit on a channel you see all the sands and you
can change the sand amount so if I go to local here I have a space center right
here and I can change the amount it's really quick and it's nice and I don't
have to change my focus so that's very nice and the other thing that's
fantastic is soft keys and mem lock because now you have your entire song
right here first chorus boom now that is so good
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