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Creating and using mix templates

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Creating and using mix templates

I like to put all of my commonly used effects tracks, submixes and bus labeling into a blank Pro Tools session that I can use as a mixing template, helping me get started with a common set of familiar tools when I start my mix. If I'm creating a song from scratch, I can also create and save session templates of commonly used elements and use that as the basis for creating a new session. Let me show you how I would create an effects template that I could use when I was starting a mix so I could save a little bit of time and have a familiar set of tools. It's kind of like pre-mixed colors that I can just reach for that give me a little bit more inspiration in the early stages of the mix. To do this I would create a New Session. I'm just going to set the default I/O Settings, because actually I'm going to be labeling a lot of my bus pathways in this process. And I'm not really worried about the Sample Rate or Bit Depth because I'm just importing aux tracks from this session in, the…

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