Monthly Archives: November 2007

How to change the default meter (time signature ) in Pro Tools?

Posted on by

Changing the base time signature of a session in Pro Tools is relatively easy.

  1. Create or open your session
  2. Make sure the meter ruler is showing
  3. In the edit window, click the “+” sign next to the word “Meter” on the meter ruler
  4. Make sure the location is set to the beginning of your session, and then enter the meter in the boxes below.
  5. set the click value to whichever value you want the click to sound on (quarter, eighth, etc)

Since the click follows however the session is set up, your click will now be in the meter that you selected.

What is a troll?

Posted on by

The word “troll” is used to describe someone who intentionally posts controversial or contrary messages in an on-line community such as an online discussion forum or group with the intention of baiting users into an argumentative response.

Common examples of the techniques used by trolls include:

  • flooding by excessive meaningless posting
  • attacking regulars in a group
  • attempting to “divide and conquer”
  • making themselves the savior of the group
  • trying to impress others with their knowledge, but ultimately only showing their ignorance of a subject
  • childish name calling
  • threatening people
  • violating newsgroup policies
  • posting under an alias (especially after getting kicked of for one or more of the above)

Trolls often have serious personal issues and will usually focus their attacks and aggressions on one or a few more active or long time members of the group. They will also be paranoid about other group members and/or administrators “ganging up on them” in support of the long time users, or when they are reprimanded (or even banned) for breaking the rules.
The word troll has gained popularity in internet communities because of its apt second meaning, drawn from the trolls portrayed in children’s tales; they are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on mischief an wickedness.

The best way to deal with a Troll is to completely ignore them.

How to capture a screenshot

Posted on by

Sometimes, when troubleshooting a problem, or even just showing cool features, it becomes necessary to post a “screenshot” of the program you are working with. There are multiple ways to do this, with varying degrees of complication, but I’m only going to cover the most basic and simple version here. I’m also only going to cover doing this under Windows (for now).

  1. Get the image on the screen that you want to capture.
  2. Press the “prtscn” key on your keyboard
  3. Open an image editing program (all windows systems come with Microsoft Paint installed, but you can use whatever image editing program you like).
  4. create a new document in your image editing program and “paste” the contents of the clipboard (ctrl + v)
  5. save the file to your hard drive. It’s best to save a file in a common image format such as jpg

Now you have an image of the screen you were working on or that you wanted other people to see. Now you need a way to share it with them. If you need a large number of people to see the image, the easiest way is to post it to a photo sharing site and send them the link to the web page that particular photo is on.

Like this one

I prefer the free photo sharing service Flickr for sharing photos in this way. You can choose another photo sharing program if you like.