# What must be prepared for the recording session itself: click and count-off choices, recording order, tempo notation, and what composers hand to orchestrators?

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A music editor (S4, S5) checks that fixed elements sit at the right timecode in a Pro Tools template and records cues in an order driven by player count under a three-hour union minimum. A studio conductor (S9, S11) decides free-click counts (four below 85 bpm, eight above), asks for eighth-note clicks at slow tempos with motor rhythms, marks tempo changes as relative bpm and treats the printed tempo as a guide because the Pro Tools tempo map and timecode are the official references. An orchestrator (S10) lists composer deliverables as MIDI file, full mix and stems, and sends back a new tempo map if tempos are retimed.

A music editor (S4, S5) checks that fixed elements sit at the right timecode in a Pro Tools template and records cues in an order driven by player count under a three-hour union minimum. A studio conductor (S9, S11) decides free-click counts (four below 85 bpm, eight above), asks for eighth-note clicks at slow tempos with motor rhythms, marks tempo changes as relative bpm and treats the printed tempo as a guide because the Pro Tools tempo map and timecode are the official references. An orchestrator (S10) lists composer deliverables as MIDI file, full mix and stems, and sends back a new tempo map if tempos are retimed.

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      "url": "https://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/music-editing-101-editing/",
      "note": "session prep"
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      "url": "https://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/music-editing-101-the-scoring-session-2/",
      "note": "session prep"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.timusic.net/debreved/conductor/",
      "note": "session prep"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.timusic.net/debreved/midi-transcription-for-dummies/",
      "note": "session prep"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.timusic.net/debreved/how-to-score/",
      "note": "session prep"
    }
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] A music editor (S4, S5) checks that fixed elements sit at the right timecode in a Pro Tools template and records cues in an order driven by player count under a three-hour union minimum. A studio conductor (S9, S11) decides free-click counts (four below 85 bpm, eight above), asks for eighth-note clicks at slow tempos with motor rhythms, marks tempo changes as relative bpm and treats the printed tempo as a guide because the Pro Tools tempo map and timecode are the official references. An orchestrator (S10) lists composer deliverables as MIDI file, full mix and stems, and sends back a new tempo map if tempos are retimed. · locator: session prep · source: https://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/music-editing-101-editing/

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