Tips And Suggestions - ELEVEN Free Manual

Tips and Suggestions

This section leaves you with some tips and sug-
gestions for other ways you can integrate Eleven
Free into your sessions.
Managing Plug-In Resources
If system resources need to be conserved or min-
imized, you can bus record the track with effects
to "commit" Eleven Free tones to disk. See "Re-
cording Eleven Free" on page 21.
Or, use the AudioSuite version to print Eleven
Free tracks to disk. AudioSuite is especially use-
ful when you're processing loops or other
shorter-form guitar material.
Track Templates and Importing
Session Data
With Pro Tools 8.0 and higher, you can use the
Quick Start feature for working with templates.
See the Pro Tools Reference Guide for information
on how you can use this feature to build up your
own library of session templates and track con-
figurations. These are a great way to make sure
your creative moments aren't interrupted by ses-
sion chores.
In all versions of Pro Tools, the Import Session
Data feature lets you import tracks from one ses-
sion into another, including their I/O and signal
routing assignments, plug-ins, and settings. You
can use this feature as a way to store and recall
templates for different Eleven Free setups.
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When you set up tracks for various Eleven Free
applications, keep note of the name of the ses-
sion. The next time you want to use that same
set up, use the Import Session Data command to
import the pre-configured tracks into the new
session.
See the Pro Tools Reference Guide for more
information about Import Session Data.
Beyond Eleven: Some Suggested
Effects
If you're new to guitar or new to Pro Tools, you
might want to know about a few simple effects
you can add to your Eleven Free guitar tracks us-
ing nothing more than a few of the free Digi-
Rack plug-ins included with your system.
Bussing and Submixing
Not so much a plug-in or effect as a standard op-
erating procedure, multiple guitar tracks are of-
ten submixed to stereo Aux Input for centralized
level control of those tracks. This is especially
useful for applying compression or limiting, cre-
ating stem mixes, and many other practical
uses. See your Pro Tools Reference Guide for mix-
ing and submixing setups and suggestions, and
try them out while exploring some of the fol-
lowing effects suggestions.