The VCA used to be an HD/Ultimate only feature but since it has been available in Pro Tools Standard the power of these incredibly useful faders is available to all. In this free extract from Fab Dupont’s Mixing With Pro Tools 12 from Puremix, Fab demonstrates how to set up a session so that all elements of the mix are accessible from VCAs and how useful this can be when used in combinations with the Pro Tools Control App from Avid, which has been available for iPad for some time but Avid has announced and demoed Android support for the App.

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