Burning a session....

Hello everybody..Im new to the digidesign world and I have a question....? I have just burned a pro tools session on cd and mail it to a friend of mine in another state...The question is should I have included the audio files also or was it fine the way I sent it....?

But I thought all he would have to do is open the session up in pro tools and start recording from there.......! I sent him two disc actually one was an audio disc in mp3 format so he can listen to the beat in a cd player and the other one was in the pro tools format.....Should that have been fine...?

I think if you copied the entire session folder and your session isn't using "round robin", or you did a "save session copy in" you should be fine. Only one way to find out; wait until he tries to open it.

KRUSH GROOVE , Well, you didn't mentioned the second disc with the MP3 files in your original post !! Also, there wasn't any clarification as to what exactly he'll need to do !! If you need our advice and help in the future, please be as specific as possible... happy tooling...

You should consider a few basic things the next time you send a session, just to keep things in order and to make life easy on your friend. (This has worked for me on several occasions when I've sent sessions to South America) -Mac/PC compatibility should be checked. -If you use 24 bit 44.1 you are basically safe. -Name all tracks, name all audio files, add any notes if necessary. -Clean your session from unnecessary regions and audio files. -Set disc allocation time to be almost as the lenght of your song. -Bounce to disk "print" all audio files so that all of then start at 0.00 -Print audio files with plug ins you have and your friend won't. -Print all midi tracks, converting them to audio, leave midi data. I'm sure that people can add to this list, but as I said these are some of the basics. If you are lucky and assuming you may have an average session of 24 tracks, under 5 minutes, plug ins, crossfades and at 24 bit 44.1 It could fit on a regular cd-r. If it doesn't, take some audio files and put them in another folder, name it audio folder 2, (burn separately). When you get ready to burn the session, check your session folder named XXX, it will contain 1) the session data file(nameofyoursong.pts) 2)audio folder 3)plug ins setting folder, and sometimes a fades folder. What you need to burn is the entire folder, the one it contains all of the items I mentioned above. You can keep it for posterity, you can take it to a major studio and mix, record, overdub, or send it to your friends all over the world and believe me they will open the session with no problems at all. If you are sending just an idea, scratch song, or just a few tracks.... heck do it anyways... you'll be doing it just like some of the pro's and well known guys over here. (I'm not one of them...yet)

Those are all good points, Camilo. Another good guide for sessions is the .

Yeah man! exactly what I'm doing next...thats the complete ball of wax!! A guideline created by the big guys.