Appendix 1

Sound Edit Workfl ows
Sound Track Pro is probably best known for its loop editor and loop management-editing system.
Many projects are brought into Sound Track Pro for no other purpose than to layout drum loops and
even music beds. If interfaced with some type of audio interface and/or MIDI interface, other instruments
can be recorded into additional sound tracks (see Figure 7.1).
Figure 7.1 Brooks MIDI room. MIDI keyboards and other devices are used to create MIDI tracks. The
force of the keystroke is also recorded and this information is used to alter the sound sample being
played. Photo by Benoit Doidic
The loop management system in Sound Track Pro makes looping samples simple and even fun.
Thousands of loops are available and editing and making loops is also simple. And the capabilities
of this software are expanding quickly. Apple would like to develop this into a true professional,
digital audio workstation on the level of Pro Tools. While it is certainly not there yet, who can say
what the next few years may bring.
Pro Tools
Sound is exported from the Final Cut Pro edit and imported into Pro Tools just as it is with Sound
Track Pro. However, the output fi le, known as an OMF or OMFI, contains all of the audio media as
well as the edited tracks. In a fi lm fi nish, sometimes the original production audio is recaptured
instead of converting from OMF. Depending on the production recorder, the audio in the Final Cut
Pro project may have been transferred once or even twice, and rather than go looking for transfer
problems, the original audio is simply recaptured directly into the Pro tools session.
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