Pro Tools 101
Get on track to become a Pro Tools Operator from home with the help of Berklee’s music production faculty. Berklee Online is the exclusive online provider of the Pro Tools 101 curriculum by Avid, and this course constitutes the first stage of their Pro Tools certification program. Learn the basic principles you’ll need to complete a Pro Tools project using Pro Tools, from initial setup to mixdown. Whether your project involves multi-track recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequencing of software synthesizers, or audio looping, Pro Tools 101 will provide you with real-world examples and frequent hands-on assignments designed to teach you how to record, edit, and mix on a basic level.
At the end of the course, you will have an opportunity to take the Avid Pro Tools 101 Exam online.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Start up and configure a Pro Tools session
- Use the main Pro Tools windows and customize displays
- Record audio into a Pro Tools session
- Import audio files and clips
- Use basic Pro Tools MIDI features
- Work with selections and navigate a Pro Tools session
- Create audio clips and edit tracks
- Create stereo mixes within Pro ToolsProcess audio using native AAX plug-ins
- Bounce to tracks and disk
- Work with music and post-production projects
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Introduction and Background
Lesson 2 Getting Inside Pro Tools
Lesson 3 Creating Your First Session
Lesson 4 Making Your First Audio Recording
Lesson 5 Importing Media Into Your Session
Lesson 6 Making Your First MIDI Recording
Lesson 7 Selecting and Navigating
Lesson 8 Basic Editing Techniques
Lesson 9 Basic Mixing Techniques
Lesson 10 Finishing Your Work
Lesson 11 Music Hands-On Project
Lesson 12 Post Hands-On Project
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Production 101 or equivalent knowledge and experience is required. This course requires a basic understanding of recording techniques, processes, and equipment, such as the following:
- Miking techniques
- Mixer signal flow
- Audio monitoring equipment
- MIDI devices
Required Textbook(s)
- Pro Tools 101: Pro Tools Fundamentals I 2020/21
Software Requirements
- Pro Tools 12 or higher (not included with course purchase). Please note: Pro Tools First is not supported in this course.
Hardware Requirements
- Any current audio interface that supports Core Audio (Mac OS) or ASIO (Windows) such as the Avid Mbox 3, Focusrite Scarlett, Presonus AudioBox, etc.
- An iLok Smart Key is required for authorization of all Pro Tools systems
- Minimum of one microphone or electric musical instrument (guitar, keyboard, etc.); direct box may also be required (check audio interface specifications)
- USB MIDI keyboard/controller
Specific hardware and operating system requirements vary depending on your Pro Tools version. For detailed system requirements involving Avid systems, check the Avid listings of systems requirements and approved interfaces. For information about third-party interfaces, contact the product manufacturer directly.
(Please note that some interfaces do not provide microphone inputs, so students who utilize these products will not be able to complete recording assignments. Also note that some interfaces require external preamplifiers in order to record microphone inputs.)
Instructors
Author
Andy Edelstein is an active educator, record producer, engineer, and multimedia developer. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee, and has also served as Assistant Chair of the Music Production and Engineering Department during his thirty-seven-year tenure at the College. Andy has produced, recorded, and/or mixed numerous records from jazz and rock to folk, Celtic, and blues, including the genre-bending Wayfaring Strangers critically acclaimed Rounder releases, the SpinART debut by independent rockers Apollo Sunshine, and a live album by the longtime bluegrass band Dry Branch Fire Squad, all using his Pro Tools HD system. His recording facility Rapid Eye Music was cited in Mix Magazine’s “Class of 2015” article about the acoustical design of the year’s coolest new studios. Andy is Principal of Rapid Eye Media, specializing in multimedia production services. His design and production work is featured in a series of award-winning interactive exhibits at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO and the Longyear Museum in Brookline, MA. Consulting clientele has included the GRAMMY Foundation in Santa Monica, CA. Andy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Instructor
Richard Mendelson is a senior faculty member in the Music Production and Engineering department at Berklee College of Music. A long-time educator, Mendelson specializes in mixing and recording. His former students include many Grammy-winning mixing and recording engineers.
Mendelson’s work has been featured in recordings by artists such as Rihanna, Nicole Scherzinger, Fergie, and Garbage, and he is a first-call mix-down engineer in the Boston area. Mendelson is an expert in digital sampling and has created more than 10 international best- selling sample products for Big Fish Audio and East/West Communications.
Instructor
Mark Cross is an award-winning producer, composer, mixer, educator, and author with an extensive discography in both film and television that spans over two decades.
As an engineer and mixer, Mark has worked on numerous projects, including the Grammy -winning Shelby Lynne album I Am Shelby Lynne, Randy Newman’s Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning soundtrack for the Disney-Pixar film Cars, the Meet the Parents original film score and soundtracks, and hundreds of episodes of the NBC prime time series ER. Mark’s additional film credits include Alien: Resurrection, Seabiscuit, and Beavis and Butthead Do America.
As a composer, Mark has created over a thousand registered tracks for use in hundreds of films and television shows worldwide. He was the lead composer for the NBC prime time series Last Comic Standing and has contributed additional music for American Idol, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the CBS Evening News, HBO’s Getting On, and Comedy Central’s Key and Peele. Mark has created musical themes for Nickelodeon’s Wow Wow Wubbzy, the Seinfeld Season 8 DVD, as well as producing and performing with Grammy winner John Legend on HBO’s: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Mark holds a Master of Fine Arts in Music Education from Boston University as well as a dual Bachelor of Music in Music Production & Engineering and Music Education from Berklee College of Music. He currently teaches Music Technology and Composition for Visual Media at Berklee College of Music, California State University Northridge, and Los Angeles College of Music. Mark authored the book Audio Post Production for Film and Television, published by Hal Leonard and Berklee Press.
Instructor
Mike Carrera has been an advocate and evangelist for technology in music education for the past 17 years at Berklee’s Boston campus. As Director for Faculty Technology Services, Mike leads the instructional technology team that empowers faculty to become better educators by helping them discover and learn new teaching with technology skills.
As a teacher and lecturer, Mike has been a featured music technology speaker at MacWorld Boston, MacWorld San Francisco, MacWorld Asia, and IUT Germany and Scotland. He is a member of the Avid ACA Higher Education Sub-Committee and manages Berklee’s Avid Learning Partnership program. Most recently, Mike has authored and produced on-line music curriculum for mobile distribution in partnership with First Act, Inc.
Mike is also an accomplished producer, writer, mixer and performer of children’s music. His band Debbie and Friends has over 13 million YouTube views and has won more than 20 national awards including: The Parents’ Choice Award, CBS Boston’s “Best Local Children’s Musician,” Nickelodeon Parents’ Pick Award and the Boston Children’s Music Performance Award. The song “Walk Away,” produced and co-written by Mike, was also included on a 2012 GRAMMY Award-winning album All About Bullies Big and Small. Since their first release, Story Songs and Sing-Alongs, Debbie and Friends have enjoyed national distribution, radio play and licensing and placements for shows like Fox TV’s “24” and retail store soundtracks.
Mike is an Avid Certified Instructor, Pro Tools Operator and Logic Pro certified, and a Berklee Alumnus.
Instructor
Erik “Hawk” Hawkins is an EDM artist, producer, composer, remixer, label owner, and author. His music has been used by major television networks and film studios, including ABC, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, and New Line Cinema.
Dozens of his articles have appeared in the Industry’s top publications, including Electronic Musician, Mix, Remix, and Keyboard. He has authored several books, including Complete Guide to Remixing and Producing Drum Beats. His Berklee Online course, Programming and Producing Drum Beats, won the 2012 UPCEA Award. He also manages his own busy YouTube channels and has collected way too many vintage synths.
Instructor
Jason Stokes is an ’09 Berklee alumnus. He worked for five years in the President’s Office of Educational Outreach before becoming an Assistant Professor of Music Production and Engineering. He is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist playing guitar, bass, drums, and piano. Prior to returning to Berklee, he worked with notable artists including India.Arie, Corey Glover, David Ryan Harris, Soulive, Lettuce, Louis Cato, and many more as a producer, an engineer, and artist. His recordings include Outkast, Goodie Mob, Boys to Men, Silk, 2.0, R.E.M., Pink, Matchbox 20, Collective Soul, Kronos Quartet, and Mariah Carey. In addition to a plethora of Major Label work, He also did a great deal of post and feature film work and studios such as the Skywalker Ranch and American Zoetrope. In 2001 he received a Grammy Nomination for Album of the Year, and another in 2002 for Contemporary Album of the Year. He was a 2008-2010 recipient of Berklee Achievement Scholarship and a 2007 recipient of a study abroad grant in Athens, Greece. He is a founding member of the Berklee in Atlanta Spring Break trip and is excited to be attending for the seventh time.
Instructor
Bora Uslusoy is a record producer and the founder of bUMA RecordZ, an independent digital music label, and project studio. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, he is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has produced, performed with, and worked as a recording and mixing Engineer for Turkish bands and artists such as Acil Servis, Artı90, Düşdünya, Aqua Talk, Klost and Sercan Sungur. Bora has also released two solo albums, Umutsuz Aşk and Muska (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) along with several singles for the Turkish and international markets.
Bora studied guitar at the Musicians’ Institute London, and completed Berklee College of Music’s “Studio Production Specialist” online certificate program. He attended Avid’s “Train The Trainer” program, leading to his becoming certified as an Avid Pro Tools Instructor. He is also certified as a Steinberg Trainer for Cubase. Bora has published five instructional books on guitar and bass in Turkish, created numerous online courses, and has written dozens of magazine articles, product reviews, and how-to guides.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music in the Music Production and Engineering Department, as well as teaching an online course at Quinnipiac University. Bora is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Pro Tools 101 can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
- Music Production using Pro Tools Advanced Professional Certificate
- Music Production Professional Certificate
- Pro Tools Professional Certificate
- Music Production and Technology Advanced Professional Certificate
- Writing and Producing Music Advanced Professional Certificate
Associated Degree Majors
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Music Studies (Create Your Own Major)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition for Film, TV, and Games
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Production
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting and Producing Music
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