#Clip studio paint pro tools archive

That way I can always get back to the clean unmixed session-or if I'm mixing for a client, I can always get back to what their mix sounded like. So I'm going to call this my initial mix, and if I was doing a revision, I might do something like rev1, 2, 3, 4, et cetera. So all this session is doing is pointing back to the same audio files in the audio files directory. And what I do is I create different revisions as I'll go and do a Save As, and we know that a Save As does not save the audio, it just saves the session document as a new file.

#Clip studio paint pro tools archive

And what this allows me to do is it allows me to archive my mix process, or separate the mix process from the editing and recording processes, where I can actually go back like little breadcrumbs and find my way back to different parts of the mix. So, File > Save As, and I'm just going to append a new version name to this session. But to take you through a roadmap of what I would do is that always start a mix by doing a Save As.

Now, the Take Me Down session that I have open right now is a really good example of a session that's already been organized. Let me show you a few things that I do to every session before I even touch a single fader. Rather than racing around a huge session looking for unnamed mystery tracks labeled audio 7 or sorting through a list of thousands of unused clips, a clean and organized session is not only an efficient way to work, it's an absolute necessity when working on collaborative projects with other engineers. I truly believe an effectively organized session-or what I like to call good Pro Tools hygiene-can take a lot of the mystery out of the mixing process and can really help you stay focused and on the task at hand.