Pro Tools 2020 - How It Works (Part 2 of 3) A Different Type of Manual - The Visual Approach - Pro Tools 2020 - How It Works

The book is also available as a complete 1,160 pages pdf file (containing Part 1-3) for $35 from the author's website DingDingMusic.com

This is book 2 of 3 of "Pro Tools 2020 - How it Works" (v2020.11), the best book for learning Pro Tools, another title in the best-selling book series "Graphically Enhanced Manuals (GEM)", no matter whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user. This comprehensive book also includes all the Pro Tools Ultimate features that are clearly marked. It is filled with unique graphics, diagrams, and examples that make it easy to understand.

The original book with 1,160 pages, available as Kindle and pdf (www.DingDingMusic.com), has to be broken up into three printed books (part 1, part 2, part 3) due to the print limitation. Here is the Table of Contents of the three books:

Table of Contents of all three books:
______Book 1 of 3___(411 pages)_____

• 1 - Introduction
• * About This Book
• * The GEM Advantage
  2 - Prior Knowledge
• * Audio Production Basics
• * The Pro Tools Ecosystem
  3 - Getting Started
• * Installation
• * Interact with Pro Tools
• * User Interface (UI)
  4 - Hardware Setup
• * Basics
• * Audio Interface
• * MIDI Interface
• * Peripherals
  5 - Sessions & Projects
• * Concept
• * Dashboard Dialog
• * Pro Tools Session
• * Pro Tools Project
  6 - The Edit Window
• * Tracks* Clips
• * Counters and Indicators
• * Lines and Ranges
  7 - Transport Controls
• * Interface
• * Playback Location
• * Transport Controls
• * Scroll & Zoom
  8 - Recording
• * Basics
• * Recording Audio
• * Recording MIDI
• * Importing

______Book 2 of 3____(324 pages)____

• 9 - Editing
• * Basics
• * Details about Selections and Clips
• * Clip Editing
  10 - Audio Editing
• * Clip Gain / Clip Effects
• * Fades
• * AudioSuite Plugins
• * Elastic Audio
• * Copy Audio as MIDI (Melodyne)
  11 - MIDI Editing
• * Basics* Various MIDI Operations
• * Tracks Area
• * MIDI Editor
• * Score Editor* MIDI Event List
• * MIDI Real-Time Properties
  12 - Cloud Collaboration
• * Collaboration* Online Features

______Book 3 of 3____(439 pages)____

• 13 - Mixing
• * Signal Flow
• * Interface (GUI)
• * #1 - Input Routing
• * #2 - Output Routing
• * #3 - Main Controls
• * #4 - Inserts
• * #5 - Sends
• * Delay Compensation - Low Latency Monitoring
  14 - Groups
• * Overview
• * AdHoc Groups
• * Audio SubGroups
• * Groups (Edit Group and Mix Group)
• * VCA Groups
• * Folder Tracks
  15 - Automation
• * Introduction* Implementation
• * Create Automation - online
• * Create Automation - offline
• * Advanced Automation in Pro Tools Ultimate
  16 - Bounce & Export
• * Introduction
• * Bounce
• * Export
• * Exchange
  17 - Additional Topics
• * Time - Tempo - Meter
• * Beat Detective
• * Workspace Browser
• * Video
• * Synchronization
  18 - Preferences
• * Concept
• * Display* Operation
• * Editing* Mixing
• * Metering* Processing* MIDI
• * Collaboration* Synchronization

Graphically Enhanced Manuals are a different type of manual with a visual approach that helps you UNDERSTAND a program, not just LEARN it. No need to read through 500 pages of dry text explanations.