Pro Tools 11/12 - #29 - Input Quantize (Event Operations) Video Lecture | Pro tools Tutorial: Basics to Expert - Video & Sound Editing

hello this is music tech help guy
welcome to episode 29 of my Pro Tools
video tutorial series in this episode
I'm going to show you guys a feature in
Pro Tools called input quantize
basically what this does is it allows
you to on input as you record your MIDI
recordings it basically has mix pro
tools automatically quantize any notes
that you play in so there's no need to
go back and constantly pull up the
quantize menu and quantize your notes so
let me just play a little drum beat here
without input quantize on so you can see
how I'm off of the grid and then I'll
play it with input quantize on all right
let's pull that up zoom in I'm quite a
bit off the grid I'm actually a little
bit behind on some spots here but
generally I tend to rush when I play so
most of the time I'm actually ahead of
the grid so we've got some notes ahead
of the grid some notes behind the grid
Noora again normally what we would do is
we'd hit command a just like I showed
you guys in episode 26 select all those
notes hit option 0 pick quantize choose
your quantization value and then hit
apply well that all takes an extra step
we don't want to do that we want to be
able to work quickly and make lots and
lots of pre quantize de MIDI recordings
so I'm going to do is pull up the event
operations menu again and this time I'm
going to choose input quantize all you
do is you click enable input
quantization I do for this I do not want
to preserve my note duration but I do
want to quantize the note note off and I
also know the strum beat has sort of a
sixteenth note basis to it so I'm gonna
choose that and let's play on our drum
pattern again
all right so let's take a look at that
and as you can see everything is
perfectly quantized to a sixteenth note
grid cool so that's all good let's move
to our next instrument I've got this
sort of like bass instrument here in
vacuum
so I'll go ahead and use that
this also has sort of like a sixteenth
note idea to it like a sixteenth note
sort of groove something like that so
let's just play that in there we go now
one of the things you'll find with input
quantize is sometimes if you're like
ahead of the grid too much it electric
quantize in the wrong direction that
very first note I played I was a little
bit too far ahead so I may have to just
go and manually quantize that
and one thing I didn't do on this one
was I didn't turn off that what was it I
didn't turn off the note off quantize
and I also for this I do want to
preserve the note duration because as
you heard some of my notes are getting
cut short so let's try that again
hopefully I'll play a little bit better
this time yeah that was a lot better
everything's on the grid but none of the
notes
none of the note ends have been
quantized which is not what I want for
this instrument all right the next thing
on the throne here is this piano the
piano is actually moving an eighth note
pace not a sixteenth note pace
something like that so I'm going to go
ahead and pull up my event operations
window again by the way there is no key
command for input quantize so normally
what I do is I just hit option zero to
bring up quantize and then I just go and
choose input quantize so for this I'm
going to do anything
all right take a look at that looks like
everything is snapped to the grid and
actually you know it looks like I'm
actually playing a quarter note they're
not not a eighth note but it's okay
sometimes we use a smaller value it's
not always it doesn't it's not as
detrimental to the to the quantization
so all right cool so the one thing you
gotta make sure you do with input
quantize is turn it off when you don't
want to use it because all of us you
know if you forget to turn it off
you may have some recordings that you
didn't want quantized end up being
quantized so I'll make sure we turn that
off when we're done if it you're just
going to with grid mode on trim up my
MIDI clips here select all of those hit
command D just to duplicate them a few
times and I'm just gonna pull down the
bass in the mix just a bit let's hear
what our musical idea sounds like
cool so again keep in mind that the goal
of this the goal of input quantizing is
to be able to write music very quickly
that's automatically quantized to the
grid and it allows you to work on the
fly a bit better than having to
constantly go back and hit option zero
option zero to pull up that quantization
menu basically you can be assured that
everything that you played in within a
relative degree of accuracy is going to
be quantized correctly so therefore you
end up saving time in the long run
because you're able to work a lot
quicker and get-get your musical ideas
out quicker and have them automatically
be in time so I hope you guys enjoyed
this video and thanks for watching