Scribd
Upload
33 views

Tutorial 2: Creating Your First Project

This tutorial teaches the user how to create their first project in LiveProfessor. It covers adding a plugin, configuring audio outputs, loading and playing a wave file, saving the project, and then reopening it. The main elements of a VST plugin window are explained, including the sidebar and its panels like audio routing. Users learn to collapse and expand the sidebar panels using arrow toggles.

Uploaded by

Caroozo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
33 views

Tutorial 2: Creating Your First Project

This tutorial teaches the user how to create their first project in LiveProfessor. It covers adding a plugin, configuring audio outputs, loading and playing a wave file, saving the project, and then reopening it. The main elements of a VST plugin window are explained, including the sidebar and its panels like audio routing. Users learn to collapse and expand the sidebar panels using arrow toggles.

Uploaded by

Caroozo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

Tutorial 2: Creating your first Project

About This Tutorial


This tutorial builds on the first one, so please make sure that you have read and completed
Tutorial 1 before continuing.
Lesson 1: The Elements of a VST plugin window
In this lesson you will have a look at the four main elements of a VST plugin window. You will
learn more about the other elements of a VST plugin window later on. You will be referring to
these elements a lot during this tutorial – so it would be helpful for you to know of these now.
Of these elements, the most important is the Sidebar – as it contains, among other things – the
panels. Of these the most important are the Audio routing panel and the Snapshots panel.

Lesson 2: The Sidebar Arrows


The arrows contained in the Sidebar are “toggles” – that is, they allow you to switch between
the closed and open states of a panel. The following diagram is an example of the closed and
open states of a Sidebar panel.
Tutorial 2: Creating your first Project
Other terms for these are collapse and expand. A horizontal arrow means that the panel is
closed – or collapsed, and a vertical arrow means that the panel is open – or expanded. You will
refer to this behavior as simply collapsing or expanding the [name] panel – in the above
example, this would be the Audio panel. You will have the opportunity of practicing and testing
this feature out for yourself in a moment.
Section A: Adding a plugin
In this section of the tutorial, you will add a plugin to the current project.
1. Launch LiveProfessor.
2. Go to Add unit.
Observation: The Add unit dialog is displayed.

3. Select SWFP

Observation: The plugin selected will now be displayed in the LiveProfessor workspace.
4. Section A is now completed.

Page 2
Tutorial 2: Creating your first Project
Section B: Configuring the Audio Output
The particular plugin used here does not have any inputs, so you will not see any inputs listed
here – just outputs. You will look at how to configure plugin inputs in a subsequent tutorial.
1. Expand the Audio routing panel.

2. In the Outputs section of this panel, select 01 - Not connected.


Observation: A pop-up menu is displayed listing the various outputs that are available to you.

3. Select Output 1 - 1 SoundMax HD Audio 0 1.


4. Repeat Step 3 for the 02 - Not connected audio output.
5. If everything has gone correctly, your Audio routing panel should be the same as shown in
the diagram below:

6. Section B is now completed.


Page 3
Tutorial 2: Creating your first Project
Section C: Loading and playing a wave file
Here you will load the included wave file and play it using the SWFP plugin.
1. Select the Load Wave file button.

2. Navigate to the folder that has the wave file.


§ See Tutorial 1, Section D, Step 3 for this folder location.
§ Path: C:\Projects\Backing Tracks.
3. Select the acoustic_grt1.wav file.
Observation: The wave file is loaded and is displayed in the text area.
4. Select the Play/Stop button on the plugin to hear the wave file.
Observation: You should now hear the acoustic_grt1.wav file. To adjust the output level, you
can use the Output gain control located in the Audio routing panel of the SWFP plugin.

5. Select the Play/Stop button on the plugin to stop the playback.


6. Section C is now completed.
Section D: Saving the Project
You will now save this project and exit LiveProfessor.
1. Go to Project.
2. Select Save project.
Observation: The Save As dialog appears.
Page 4
Tutorial 2: Creating your first Project
3. Click the Up on level button to return to the Projects folder.
4. Enter a name for this project.
§ Name: Tutorial 2.
5. Select Save
6. The Project is now saved and the Save As dialog closes.
7. Exit LiveProfessor
8. Section D is now completed.
Lesson 3: The Project Name
If you remember from a subsequent tutorial – the upper right-hand corner of the screen area is
the only location where you will see the name of the current project. After saving the project as
Tutorial 2, the upper right-hand corner of the screen area will now display the name of the
current project.

Section E: Opening Tutorial 2 Project


You will now re-open the project you just saved.
1. Launch LiveProfessor.
2. Go to Open project.
Observation: The Open dialog is displayed.
3. Select the Tutorial 2 project file.
4. Select Open.
Observation: The project opens.
5. Select the Play/Stop button on the plugin to hear the wave file.
6. Select the Play/Stop button on the plugin to stop the playback.
7. Exit LiveProfessor.
8. Section E is now completed.
Summary
You have covered a lot of ground here and you should review the various points that have been
covered thus far. Here are some of the key points that you have learned here in this tutorial:
§ Creating your first project.
§ Adding a plugin.
§ Saving the Project.
§ Learning about the three main component parts of a VST plugin window.
§ Learned about the Sidebar
§ How to collapse and expand the Sidebar panel and what the toggle means.
§ What the Audio routing panel is.
§ How to configure the audio output.
§ About the Output gain control which is located in the Audio routing panel.
§ About closing and re-opening a previously saved project file.

Page 5

You might also like