Pinnacle Systems Pro Tools LE - 6.0 Menus Guide

Pro Tools

Menus Guide

Version 6.0 for Macintosh

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contents

Chapter 1. Pro Tools Menu

Pro Tools Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Quit Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2. File Menu

New Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Open Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Close Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Save Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Save Session As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Save Session Copy In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Revert To Saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Bounce to Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

New Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Group Selected Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Duplicate Selected Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Split Selected Tracks Into Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Make Selected Tracks Inactive or Make Selected Tracks Active. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Delete Selected Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Import Session Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Import Audio to Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Import MIDI to Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Export Selected Track as OMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Export MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Export Session As Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Log Offline Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Get Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Chapter 3. Edit Menu

Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Paste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Repeat Paste to Fill Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Merge Paste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Duplicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Repeat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Capture Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Separate Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Heal Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Quantize Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Mute/Unmute Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Lock/Unlock Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Consolidate Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Compress/Expand Edit to Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Identify Sync Point and Remove Sync Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Redefine Current Time Code Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Identify Beat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Insert Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Fades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Copy to Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Thin Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Write Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Trim Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Chapter 4. AudioSuite Menu

1-Band EQ II and 4-Band EQ II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

D-Verb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

DC Offset Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

DeEsser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Duplicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Expander-Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Flanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Invert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Multi-Tap Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Normalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ping-Pong Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pitch Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Signal Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Time Compression/Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Chapter 5. MIDI Menu

Change Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Change Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Renumber Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Groove Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Restore Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Flatten Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Change Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Change Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Transpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Select Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Split Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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Input Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Click Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

MIDI Beat Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Input Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

MIDI Thru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

All Notes Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Chapter 6. Movie Menu

Import Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Import Audio From Current Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Import Audio From Other Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bounce to Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

New Movie Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Normal Priority Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Medium Priority Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Highest Priority Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Set Movie Sync Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Movie Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Play DV Out FireWire Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Window Aspect Ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Add Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Undo Add Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Clear Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Clear Movie Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Chapter 7. Operations Menu

Destructive Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Loop Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

QuickPunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Auto Input Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Input Only Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Low Latency Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Pre/Post-Roll Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Loop Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Scroll Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Link Edit and Timeline Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Copy Edit Selection to Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Copy Timeline Selection to Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Play Timeline Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Play Edit Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Mute Frees Assigned Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Auto-Spot Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Active in Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Pre-Fader Metering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Calibration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 8. Setups Menu

Hardware Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Playback Engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Disk Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

I/O Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Feet.Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Create Machine Track Arming Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Edit MIDI Studio Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 9. Display Menu

Narrow Mix Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Mix Window Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Edit Window Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Transport Window Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Sends View Shows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Ruler View Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

System Usage Window Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Disk Space Window Shows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Display Time in Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Display Name in Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Display Auto-Created Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Bars:Beats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Minutes:Seconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Time Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Feet.Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 10. Windows Menu

Show Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Show Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Show Task Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Show Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Show Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Show MIDI Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Show Tempo/Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Show MIDI Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Show MIDI Track Offsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Show Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Show Session Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Show Big Counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Show Automation Enable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Show Memory Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Show Machine Track Arm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Show Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Show Beat Detective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Show Movie Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Show Strip Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Show System Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Show Disk Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Pro Tools Menu

Pro Tools Menu

(Mac OS X Only)

The Pro Tools menu commands include links to
online Pro Tools documentation, Pro Tools
Preferences, access to Macintosh OS X applica­tion management, and the Quit command.

Pro Tools menu

Pro Tools Online Documentation

The Pro Tools application menu provides links
to important Pro Tools documentation, includ­ing the

Plug-Ins Guide

and others.

Pro Tools Reference Guide

, the

MIDI Control Surfaces Guide

, the

DigiRack

Select the title of the desired guide from the
Pro Tools menu to launch the document in
Adobe Acrobat Reader (the Adobe Acrobat
Reader installer can be found on your Pro Tools
Installation CD-ROM or can be downloaded
from www.adobe.com).

Preferences

Pro Tools Preferences are available from both
the Pro Tools Menu and the Setups menu. For
more information, see “Preferences” on page 41.

Services

The Pro Tools menu also provides access to Mac­intosh OS X application management com­mands, such as Services, Hide Pro Tools, Hide
Others, and Show All. For more information
about these and other Macintosh OS X features,
please refer to your Apple Macintosh documen­tation.

Quit Pro Tools

The Quit Pro Tools command ends your
Pro Tools session and closes the Pro Tools appli-

,

cation.

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chapter 2

File Menu

File Menu

File menu commands are used to create and
maintain Pro Tools sessions.

New Session

The New Session command creates a new
Pro Tools session. Before the session is created,
you must name the session and choose its Audio
File type, Sample Rate, Bit Depth, and I/O Set­tings. Selecting the Enforce Mac/PC Compatibil­ity option ensures proper interchange of ses­sions and their associated media between
Macintosh and Windows-based systems. Spe­cific file-naming and audio format restrictions
apply.

File menu

New Session dialog

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Open Session

Save Session Copy In

The Open Session command opens a session
previously created with Pro Tools. Only one ses­sion can be open at a time.

Close Session

The Close Session command closes the current
session without quitting Pro Tools. Pro Tools
prompts you to save changes before closing the
session.

Save Session

The Save Session command saves changes made
since the last time the session was saved. You
cannot undo the Save Session command.

Save Session As

The Save Session As command lets you save a
copy of the current session under a different
name, or in a different location. Because the
Save Session As command closes the current ses­sion and allows you to keep working on the re­named copy, it is useful for saving successive
stages of the session.

The Save Session Copy In command lets you
save a copy of the currently selected session un­der a different name or in a different location.
Session media can be included in the copy that
you save, with options to save the media at a dif­ferent bit depth, sample rate, or file format type.
Sessions can be saved in a variety of session for­mats for compatibility with older systems. This
command is useful for archiving sessions.

Save Session Copy In dialog

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Unlike the Save Session As command, Save Ses­sion Copy In does not close the original session,
so subsequent edits are made to the original ses­sion. The saved copy becomes a backup copy,
and gives you the option of returning to the ear­lier version.

When you Save Session Copy In with a lower bit
rate, the built-in Pro Tools Dither with Noise
Shaping will be applied.

The Items To Copy section of this dialog pro­vides several options for copying a session along
with its associated files.

All Audio Files

audio files are copied to the new location. Se­lecting All Non-“file type” Audio Files copies all
audio files
dio file type. This option’s file type will always
be the default audio file type of the session; so if
the session’s default audio file type is WAV, the
option will read All Non-WAV Audio Files. Se­lecting Don’t Copy Fade Files omits fade files
from the copied data.

When this option is selected, all

except

audio files of the specified au-

Bounce to Disk

The Bounce to Disk command allows you to mix
together the outputs of all currently audible
tracks routed to a common output path to create
a new audio file. You can use the Bounce to Disk
command to create a submix or to create a final
mix in any of several audio file formats.

Session Plug-In Settings Folder

tion is selected, the session’s Plug-In Settings
Folder is copied to the new location. The refer­ences to these plug-in settings in the session are
redirected to the copied files.

Root Plug-In Settings Folder

selected, the Root Plug-In Settings Folder is cop­ied to the new location. The references to these
plug-in settings in the session are redirected to
the copied files.

Movie/Video Files

lected, the session’s video files are copied to the
new location, and the references in the session
are redirected to the copied movie or video file.

When this option is se-

When this op-

When this option is

Revert To Saved

The Revert to Saved command restores the most
recently saved version of a session, discarding all
changes made since the last time you saved. Re­verting to the last saved version of a session is
like closing the session without saving changes
and reopening it.

Bounce to Disk dialog

Bounce Source

bounce. Only audio routed to the selected path
will be included in the bounce.

File Type

SDII, BWF (.WAV), AIFF, MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3),
QuickTime, and Sound Resource (Macintosh) or
Windows Media (Windows). Certain file types
are restricted in regards to format, resolution,
and sample rate.

Format

Selects the channel format (number of
channels). Choices are mono (summed), multi­ple mono, or interleaved.

Selects the audio output path to

Selects the audio file type. Choices are

Resolution

24-, 16-, or 8-bit.

Selects the bit depth. Choices are

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Sample Rate

Selects the sample rate.

New Track

Import After Bounce

audio after it is bounced and adds it to the Re­gions List so that it can be used in the session.

Automatically imports the

The Import After Bounce option is not
available when converting during or after
Bounce.

Additional Bounce Options

The following Bounce options are only available
when bouncing to a different file type, format,
resolution, or sample rate.

Conversion Quality

to Tweak Head when bouncing to a new sample
rate.

Use Squeezer

bounced audio before conversion to 8-bit reso­lution.

Convert During Bounce

file type, sample rate, and bit resolution conver­sion as the file is being bounced.

Convert After Bounce

file type, sample rate, and bit resolution conver­sion after the file has been bounced.

Selects the quality from Low

Optimizes the dynamics of the

Automatically performs

Automatically performs

The New Track command adds one or more new
audio tracks, Auxiliary Inputs, Master Faders, or
MIDI tracks to a session. Tracks can be mono,
stereo, or any one of a variety of multichannel
formats.

Greater-than-stereo multichannel tracks
are not supported on Pro Tools|24 or
Pro Tools LE systems.

New Track dialog

Group Selected Tracks

This command groups the currently selected
tracks together so that their controls are linked
together in either or both the Mix and the Edit
window. Groups can be nested so that sub­groups are contained within larger groups.

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Group Selected Tracks dialog

Duplicate Selected Tracks

This command duplicates a selected track, in­cluding its audio or MIDI data, playlists, auto­mation, and other attributes.

Split Selected Tracks Into Mono

This command splits a selected stereo or multi­channel track into individual mono tracks that
can be edited and manipulated independently.
The Split Selected Tracks Into Mono command
cannot be undone.

Make Selected Tracks Inactive or Make Selected Tracks Active

This command makes selected tracks inactive,
so that they no longer play back or use any DSP
resources or voices. Inactive tracks can be made
active again by choosing the Make Selected
Tracks Active command.

Delete Selected Tracks

This command removes tracks from a session.
While audio or MIDI region data will remain in
the Regions List, the track and its playlists will
be deleted.

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Import Session Data

Import Session Data dialog

This command lets you import selected session
data from an existing session into the current
session. Options are provided for time code
mapping, sample rate conversion, and copying,
converting, and referencing audio and video
source files. The Import Session Data command

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also provides the ability to import specific play­lists, routing assignments, and automation—ei­ther adding them as new tracks or overlaying el­ements onto existing tracks.

The Import Session Data command replaces
the Import Tracks command in previous
versions of Pro Tools.

Import Audio to Track

Export MIDI

This command loads audio files or regions into
the current session. Each imported audio file
will appear on its own individual track. To im­port audio files without automatically creating
new tracks for them, use the Import Audio com­mand in the Audio Regions List pop-up menu.

Import MIDI to Track

The Import MIDI to Track command imports all
tracks from a Standard MIDI file into Pro Tools
and automatically places them in new MIDI
tracks. To import MIDI regions to a session with­out automatically creating new tracks for them,
use the Import MIDI command in the MIDI Re­gions List pop-up menu. The Import MIDI to
Track command allows you to import tempo
data contained in the sequence or apply existing
tempo data in the session to the imported file.

Export Selected Track as OMF

(DigiTranslator Option Only)

The Export Selected Tracks as OMF command
exports selected tracks in OMFI format. Open
Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) is an in­dustry standard file format, that facilitates the
transfer of digital media between applications
(such as Pro Tools and Avid Video editing soft­ware). If the DigiTranslator option is not in­stalled, the Export Selected Track as OMF com­mand will be greyed out in the File menu.

For more information, see the Digi­Translator 2.0 Integrated Option Guide.

This command exports all currently audible
MIDI tracks in a session as a standard MIDI file.
Muted MIDI tracks will not be exported. You
can export the file as a Type 1 (multitrack) or
Type 0 (merged) Standard MIDI file.

Export Session As Text

This command exports the current session as a
tab-delimited text file containing region and file
names, and SMPTE start times. This command
will not print or format session events to any
particular standard; it simply provides the data
in a text format.

Export Session As Text dialog

Log Offline Media

This command creates a text file listing the me­dia used on selected tracks. Media is offline if it
is unavailable to the session (such as when on
sever to which you are not connected or on a
drive that has been removed from the system).

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Get Info

This command lets you enter and save informa­tion about the session.

Left-column text fields are topic fields. Text en­tered there is saved with your Pro Tools Prefer­ences and will appear in all sessions, allowing
you to preset the field to topics that you com­monly use.

Right-column text fields are information fields
and are session specific and will be saved with
the session.

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Edit Menu

Edit Menu

Edit menu commands are used to edit and ma­nipulate regions.

Undo

The Undo command lets you sequentially undo
up to 16 of your previous actions. Certain com­mands and actions (such as saving) are not un­doable. The last command in the undo queue
will appear in the menu (for example, “Undo
Paste”).

Redo

After undoing a command or action, you can
redo it by choosing the Redo command. This is
a good way to compare before and after states of
edits.

Cut

This command cuts a selection out of its current
location and stores it in memory so that you can
paste it elsewhere.

Copy

This command copies a selection (leaving the
original intact) and stores it in memory so that
you can paste it elsewhere.

Edit menu

Paste

This command inserts cut or copied data into a
location specified with an Edit tool (such as the
Selector tool).

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Repeat Paste to Fill Selection

(TDM Systems Only)

This command repeatedly pastes copied data
until it completely fills a selection. If you select
an area that is not an exact multiple of the cop­ied region size, the remaining selection area is
filled with a trimmed version of the original se­lection. This allows you to easily create drum
loops and other repetitive effects. Before the
data is pasted, Pro Tools prompts you to specify
a crossfade to smooth transitions between re­gions.

Merge Paste

This command pastes MIDI data into a track
without replacing existing data by merging the
pasted data with the existing data. This can be
useful for consolidating MIDI data from several
tracks into a single MIDI track.

Clear

Shift

This command moves track material earlier or
later in time by a specified amount. To use this
command, select the material you want to
move, choose Shift, then enter the desired direc­tion and time value.

Select All

This command selects all audio and MIDI data
in one or more tracks.

To select all regions in a single track, select a

◆

portion of the track, or click the Selector any­where in a track and choose Select All.

To select all regions on multiple tracks, Shift-

◆

click a region on each track with the Selector or
Grabber and choose Select All.

◆

To select all regions on all tracks, Select the
“All” Edit Group in the Groups List, click the Se­lector anywhere in a track, and choose Select
All.

This command removes the contents within a
selection in the Edit window.

Duplicate

This command copies a selection and places it
immediately after the end of that selection in a
track.

Repeat

This command is similar to Duplicate, but al­lows you to specify the number of times the se­lected material is duplicated. To use this com­mand, select the material you want to repeat,
choose Repeat, then enter the number of repeti­tions.

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Trim

This command removes audio before and after a
selection, leaving only the selection. This pro­vides a convenient means of quickly removing
all data within a region except the current selec­tion.

Capture Region

This command defines a selection as a new re­gion and adds it to the Regions List. From there
the new region can be dragged into a track. You
cannot capture selections across multiple re­gions unless the data is contiguous material
from the same file.

Separate Region

Lock/Unlock Region

This command defines a selection as a new re­gion (or the current insertion point as a region
split point), and in the process, separates it from
adjacent data in the track where it was created.
By separating a region you will also create by­product regions from data on either side of the
separation.

Heal Separation

This command repairs separated regions, pro­vided that the regions are contiguous and their
relative start and end points haven’t changed
since they were originally separated. If you have
trimmed or changed the start and end points of
the two regions, or moved them away from each
other, they cannot be repaired with the Heal
Separation command.

Quantize Regions

This command adjusts the placement of a se­lected audio or MIDI region in a track so that its
start point (or Sync Point, if it contains one) pre­cisely aligns to the nearest Grid boundary. Grid
units are chosen from the Grid pop-up menu in
the Edit window.

This command locks a selected region in place
so it cannot be moved unless you unlock it. This
command is useful for permanently associating
a region with a particular location in a track
(such as a beat, SMPTE frame, or time value). A
small lock icon appears in the region indicating
it has been locked.

Consolidate Selection

This command consolidates multiple regions
into a single region. When an audio track is con­solidated, a new audio file is written that en­compasses the selection range, including any
blank space.

Compress/Expand Edit to Play

(TDM Systems Only)

This command uses the Time Compression/Ex­pansion plug-in to fit an audio selection to a
Timeline selection. This is only possible when
the Edit and Timeline selections are unlinked.

Identify Sync Point and Remove Sync Point

Mute/Unmute Region

This command mutes playback of a selected re­gion. Choosing the Unmute command unmutes
the region. This command does not create auto­mation data.

This command places a Sync Point at the cur­rent cursor location. A triangle indicates the
Sync Point’s position. This Sync Point can then
be used as the reference point—nudge, spot,
move, and so on—instead of the region start or
end. On TDM systems, when you choose this
command, the current SMPTE time is automati­cally entered as the SMPTE location for the Sync
Point.

To remove a Sync point from a region, select the
region with the Grabber and choose Edit > Re­move Sync Point.

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Redefine Current Time Code
Position

(MachineControl Option Only)

This command lets you redefine the session
start time. By creating an insertion point (or se­lection) and then entering the desired new time
code position for that location, the session start
time will be recalculated based on the new, rela­tive Time Code location.

Identify Beat

This command lets you establish a tempo/meter
map for audio that was recorded without listen­ing to a click, or for imported audio with un­known tempos.

Insert Silence

This command creates regions of silence. Make a
selection on one or more tracks, choose Insert
Silence, and precisely that amount of silence
will be inserted.

Fades

This command lets you create a crossfade be­tween two adjacent audio regions or a fade-in or
fade-out of a single region. Crossfade duration,
position, and shape are all selectable. A selection
that crosses multiple regions will create cross­fades for each of the region transitions. If a se­lection includes regions that already contain
crossfades, the existing crossfades will be modi­fied.

Identify Beat dialog

The Identify Beat command analyzes a selection
range (usually with a distinct number of beats or
measures) and calculates its tempo based on the
specified meter. In doing this, Bar|Beat markers
for the calculated tempo are inserted and appear
in the Tempo Ruler at the beginning and end of
the selection. in addition, meter events are in­serted into the Meter Ruler.

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Fades dialog

Create Fades

The Create Fades command produces a cross­fade between adjacent regions according to pa­rameters you specify with the Fades editor.

Delete Fades

The Delete Fades command removes a crossfade
between adjacent regions.

Fade to Start

The Fade to Start command creates a fade-in
from the current insertion point to a region’s
start point.

Fade to End

The Fade to End command creates a fade-out
from the current insertion point to a region’s
end point.

To copy a track’s current control settings to a
send on that track, select Current Value. To
copy the entire automation playlist for the track
to a send, select Automation.

Thin Automation

This command lets you selectively thin areas in
a track where automation data is too dense,
aversely affecting CPU performance. The
amount of thinning performed is determined by
the amount you have selected in the Automa­tion page of the Preferences dialog. Avoid over­thinning data or it may no longer accurately re­flect the original automation.

Copy to Send

(TDM Systems Only)

This command lets you copy either the current
values or automation of a selected track’s vol­ume, pan, mute, or LFE automation to the cor­responding playlist for the send. This is useful
when you want a track’s send automation to
mirror automation on the track itself.

Copy to Send dialog

Write Automation

This command lets you write automation states
for one or more parameters to specific session
locations in a single step. This saves you the
trouble of performing multiple automation
passes for different parameters in real time, or
having to graphically draw automation state
changes on individual automation playlists.

To Current Parameter

This command writes the current value only to
the currently displayed automation parameter.

To All Enabled Parameters

This command writes the current settings for all
automation parameters enabled in the Automa­tion Enable window.

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Trim Automation

This command lets you use trim values as snap­shots and apply the relative changes or delta val-
ues to the selected automation. This is similar to
the Write Automation command, except that it
writes delta values instead of absolute values to
automation data. You can use trim values in
writing snapshot automation to any automat­able parameter.

To Current Parameter

This command trims the current value only to
the currently displayed automation parameter.

To All Enabled Parameters

This command trims the current settings for all
automation parameters enabled in the Automa­tion Enable window.

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AudioSuite Menu

AudioSuite Menu

The AudioSuite menu allows you to access all
AudioSuite plug-ins currently installed in your
system’s Plug-Ins folder. AudioSuite plug-ins are
non-real-time, file-based processing plug-ins for
Pro Tools. For detailed information on each of
the AudioSuite plug-ins, refer to the DigiRack
Plug-Ins Guide.

1-Band EQ II and 4-Band EQ II

The EQ II plug-ins adjust the frequency spec­trum of an audio selection. The 1-band EQ can
be configured as a high-pass, low-shelf, high­shelf, low-pass, or peak EQ. The 4-band EQ pro­vides one high-shelf, one low-shelf, and two
peak EQs.

Chorus

The Chorus plug-in modifies an audio signal by
combining a time-delayed, pitch-shifted copy
with the original signal. It is ideal for thickening
and adding a shimmering quality to guitars,
keyboards, and other instruments.

Compressor

The Compressor plug-in provide dynamics pro­cessing. This type of processing allows you to
control the dynamic range of audio material, in­creasing or decreasing gain as needed.

D-Verb

AudioSuite menu

D-Verb is a studio-quality reverb. Reverberation
processing can simulate the complex natural re­flections and echoes that occur after a sound has
been produced, imparting a sense of an acoustic
environment. D-Verb artificially creates a sound
space with a specific acoustic character.

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DC Offset Removal

Expander-Gate

The DC Offset Removal plug-in recognizes and
removes spikes caused by DC offset in the cur­rently selected region if any are present.

DeEsser

The DeEsser plug-in reduces sibilants (“s,” “sh,”
and “t” sounds) and other high frequency
noises that can occur in vocals, voice-overs, and
some wind instruments. These sounds can cause
peaks in an audio signal and lead to distortion.

The DeEsser reduces these unwanted sounds us­ing fast-acting compression. A Threshold con­trol sets the level above which compression
starts, and a Frequency control sets the fre­quency band in which the DeEsser operates.

Delay

The Delay plug-in provides time delay-based ef­fects, with up to 10.9 seconds of delay (regard­less of the sample rate). In addition to long de­lays, you can create many delay-based effects
with this plug-in, including slap echo, doubling,
chorusing, and flanging.

Duplicate

The Duplicate plug-in duplicates a selected area
or region in place. The Duplicate plug-in is use­ful for creating a single audio file from a selec­tion encompassing many smaller regions with
areas of silence between them.

The Expander-Gate plug-in provides dynamics
processing. This type of processing allows you to
control the dynamic range of audio material, in­creasing or decreasing gain as needed.

Flanger

The Flanger plug-in combines a time-delayed,
pitch shifted copy of an audio signal with itself.
The Flanger differs from other digital flangers in
that it uses a thru-zero flanging algorithm that
results in a truer tape-like flange. This technique
delays the original dry signal very slightly (ap­proximately 256 samples), then modulates the
delayed signal back and forth in time in relation
to the dry signal, passing through its zero point
on the way.

Gain

The Gain plug-in adjusts the gain (volume) of
the currently selected region in decibels or a per­centage value.

Gate

The Gate plug-in provides dynamics processing.
This type of processing allows you to control the
dynamic range of audio material, increasing or
decreasing gain as needed.

Invert

The Invert plug-in inverts the phase (polarity) of
the currently selected region.

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Limiter

Pitch Shift

The Limiter plug-in provides dynamics process­ing. This type of processing allows you to con­trol the dynamic range of audio material, in­creasing or decreasing gain as needed.

Multi-Tap Delay

The Multi-Tap Delay plug-in adds up to four in­dependently-controllable delays or taps to the
original audio signal. By allowing you to indi­vidually control the delay time and number of
repetitions of each of the four taps, the Multi­Tap delay provides greater flexibility than stan­dard single-delay devices.

Normalize

The Normalize plug-in uniformly adjusts all lev­els in the currently selected area to a user-defin­able level, referencing the loudest peak in either
a specific region, or examining the relative peak
level of several regions.

Ping-Pong Delay

The Ping-Pong Delay plug-in modifies an audio
signal by adding a controllable delay to the orig­inal signal. It is ideal for adding spatialization,
and when used in stereo, adds panned echo to
virtually any instrument. In stereo mode, this
plug-in will feed back delayed signals to their
opposite channels, creating a characteristic
ping-pong echo effect.

The Pitch Shift plug-in changes the pitch of the
currently selected region, with or without
changing its duration. It also allows you to per­form Time Compression/Expansion on your se­lection simultaneously with a pitch change.

Reverse

The Reverse plug-in rewrites the currently se­lected region in reverse, producing a backwards
audio effect.

Signal Generator

The Signal Generator plug-in produces audio
test tones in a variety of frequencies, waveforms,
and amplitudes. It is useful for generating refer­ence signals with which to calibrate various ele­ments of your studio.

Time Compression/Expansion

The Time Compression/Expansion plug-in
changes the length (duration) of the currently
selected region, with or without changing its
pitch.

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chapter 5

MIDI Menu

MIDI Menu

The MIDI menu contains commands for MIDI
editing.

MIDI menu

Change Tempo

This command lets you insert a tempo event
into the Tempo Track to define or change the
tempo of a session. Pro Tools allows multiple
tempo changes within a session.

Tempo/Meter Change dialog, Tempo Change option

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Change Meter

Quantize

This command lets you insert a Meter event into
the Meter Track to define or change the meter of
a session. Pro Tools allows multiple meter
changes within a session.

Tempo/Meter Change dialog, Meter Change option

Renumber Bars

This command lets you renumber the bars in a
session. To do this, change the numbering of bar
1, and all subsequent bars are renumbered ac­cordingly.

This command lets you adjust the placement of
selected MIDI events in a track so that their start
or end points precisely align to the quantization
value chosen.

MIDI Operations dialog, Quantize option

Renumber Bars dialog

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Groove Quantize

Restore Performance

This command lets you adjust the placement of
selected MIDI events in a track so that their tim­ings, durations, and velocities align to the se­lected groove template grid. Pro Tools installs
several pre-defined groove templates for use on
all Pro Tools systems. On TDM systems, Digi­Groove templates can be created using Beat De­tective.

MIDI Operations dialog, Groove Quantize option

This command lets you restore the original
MIDI performance regardless of how many edits
you’ve made or whether or not the undo queue
has been cleared (for example, by saving the ses­sion). One or more of the following note at­tributes can be restored: Timing (Quantization),
Duration, Velocity, and Pitch.

MIDI Operations dialog, Restore Performance option

Flatten Performance

This command lets you lock the specified cur­rent note parameters as the “restore to” state,
overriding the original performance. One or
more of the following note attributes can be flat­tened: Timing (Quantization), Duration, Veloc­ity, and Pitch. Flatten Performance can be un­done.

MIDI Operations dialog, Flatten Performance option

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Change Velocity

Change Duration

This command lets you adjust attack and release
velocities for selected MIDI notes. Use it to make
notes louder or softer, or to create a crescendo or
diminuendo.

MIDI Operations dialog, Change Velocity option

This command lets you adjust the duration for
selected MIDI notes. It can be used to make mel­odies and phrases more staccato or more legato.

MIDI Operations dialog, Change Duration option

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Transpose

Split Notes

This command transposes selected MIDI notes
up or down the musical scale by a specific num­ber of semitones (half steps). With this feature,
you can easily add key changes and other trans­position effects to MIDI tracks.

MIDI Operations dialog, Transpose option

Select Notes

This command lets you select MIDI notes based
on pitch. It can be used to select a single note or
note range for the entire length of a region or
track, or to select the upper or lower notes
within chords.

This command is similar to the Select Notes
command, but also lets you automatically cut or
copy the selected notes. One use for this com­mand is in the case where you have recorded a
track with chords in the left hand and melody in
the right. You can cut the melody notes and
paste them to another track to assign them to
play on a different device or channel.

MIDI Operations dialog, Split Notes option

MIDI Operations dialog, Select Notes option

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Input Quantize

Click Options

This command lets you quantize MIDI notes as
they are performed and recorded. While this
will improve the strict rhythmic accuracy of a
performance, it can also give it a stiff, mechani­cal feel. To preserve the original rhythmic nu­ances of a performance, experiment with lower
Strength settings, or deselect the Enable input
quantize option.

This command lets you configure metronome
parameters such as MIDI note, velocity, dura­tion, and output. If you are using the Click plug­in, set the output to None.

Click Options dialog

MIDI Operations dialog, Input Quantize option

Click

When enabled, a metronome event is generated
during playback and recording. The metronome
can be an external MIDI device (as specified by
the Output setting in the Click Options dialog)
or the DigiRack Click TDM or RTAS plug-in (see
the DigiRack Plug-Ins Guide).

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MIDI Beat Clock

Input Filter

This command enables synchronization for cer­tain MIDI devices (such as drum machines, soft­ware synthesizers, and hardware sequencers) to
MIDI Beat Clock. Devices selected in this dialog
will receive the MIDI Beat Clock signal. If your
MIDI interface does not support transmitting
MIDI Beat Clock to separate ports, the interface
will appear as the only destination.

This command filters out selected MIDI mes­sages from your recording. The Input Filter can
be set to record all messages, only the specified
messages, or all except the specified messages.
When using the Only option, only the MIDI
messages that are selected will be recorded. Con­versely, when using the All Except option, the
selected messages will not be recorded.

MIDI Beat Clock dialog

MIDI Input Filter dialog

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Input Devices

(Macintosh Only)

This command enables selected MIDI control­lers and control surfaces so that MIDI data re­ceived from them can be recorded. Disabling de­vices in this dialog will ensure that unwanted
notes (such as those from drum machines or an
arpeggiator) are not recorded.

MIDI Input Enable dialog

MIDI Thru

Enabling MIDI Thru routes MIDI from your con­trollers to the devices and channels assigned to
the MIDI track currently record-enabled. This al­lows you to monitor MIDI tracks while record­ing.

All Notes Off

This command sends an All Notes Off MIDI
message to all MIDI devices connected to your
system to silence any stuck notes.

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chapter 6

Movie Menu

Movie Menu

Movie menu commands are used for adding
QuickTime movies and other audio formats to a
session, and managing movie playback.

Movie menu

Import Movie

This command imports a QuickTime movie into
the current session. Once imported, a Quick­Time movie is displayed in its own Movie track
in the Edit window, and in a floating Movie
window. With a QuickTime movie in a session,
Pro Tools serves as a fast, random-access visual
reference for “sweetening” the movie by adding
sound effects, music, Foley, dialog, or other au­dio.

Import Audio From Current Movie

This command imports audio directly from a
QuickTime movie currently loaded into a ses­sion. Pro Tools will convert the audio to the cur­rent session sample rate and bit resolution.

Import Audio From Other Movie

(Macintosh Only)

This command imports audio from a QuickTime
movie on your hard drive. If necessary,
Pro Tools will convert the audio to the current
session sample rate and bit resolution. This
command can also be used to import audio files
from audio CDs.

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Bounce to Movie

Highest Priority Playback

This command compiles a new QuickTime
movie with the current session as the audio
soundtrack. Pro Tools will convert the audio
tracks to the selected sample rate and bit resolu­tion, then create a new flattened movie with the
bounced audio. As a QuickTime file, the new
movie is supported by all software applications
that support QuickTime video.

New Movie Track

(Avoption and AVoption|XL Only)

This command creates a new empty movie track
into which you can record or import video.

Normal Priority Playback

This is the default setting for QuickTime movie
playback. It gives no extra priority to movie
playback over other screen update tasks such as
metering, moving faders, and so on. In most
cases you should use this setting. If, however,
you are running QuickTime movies without a
video capture card, you may need to use the Me­dium or High Priority Playback setting.

Medium Priority Playback

This command gives QuickTime movie play­back a higher priority relative to other Pro Tools
screen update tasks. This yields better movie
playback performance if you are running Quick­Time movies without a video capture card.

This command gives QuickTime movie play­back highest priority. In this mode, Pro Tools
disables screen activity such as metering during
movie playback. This yields the highest movie
playback performance if you are running Quick­Time movies without a video capture card.

Set Movie Sync Offset

When you import a QuickTime movie into a ses­sion, by default, the first frame of the movie is
set to the start time of the session. In some cases,
you may need to offset the movie earlier or later
so you can accurately spot audio to it. The Set
Movie Sync Offset command allows you to set
this offset in 1/4-frame increments. This is more
accurate than dragging the movie track, and is
especially useful in cases where a movie track
begins with a partial frame.

Movie Online

This command enables and disables movie play­back. You may want to do this to have the
Movie frozen at a particular point in time rela­tive to Pro Tools playback, or to give highest
screen update priority to other Pro Tools tasks
such as metering, moving faders, and so on.

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Play DV Out FireWire Port

Clear Selection

This command plays the current movie out the
FireWire port. You may want to do this to have
a Digital Video deck, monitor, or camcorder
record or display DV (digital video) playback
from Pro Tools.

For a list or supported DV FireWire
transcoders, visit the compatibility pages on
the Digidesign Web site (www.digide­sign.com).

Window Aspect Ratio

(AVoption and AVoption|XL Only)

This command lets you change the dimensions
or aspect ratio of the Movie window.

Add Movie

(AVoption and AVoption|XL Only)

This command adds additional movie clips to
the Movie track. You will be prompted to spot
the clip to a SMPTE location. If the clip is spot­ted to a location that already contains a movie
clip, the first clip will be truncated.

This command clears a selection in the Movie
track. This allows simple editing of movie clip
content.

Clear Movie Track

This command clears the entire Movie track.

Undo Add Movie

This command undoes the Add Movie com­mand and other Movie track editing functions
such as moving, copying, or clearing clips.
These actions cannot be undone by choosing
the standard Undo command from the Edit
menu.

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chapter 7

Operations Menu

Operations Menu

The Operations menu commands lets you tog­gle on or off several editing, recording, monitor­ing, playback, and display options.

Operations menu (TDM Systems)

Destructive Record

This command enables Destructive Record
mode. In this mode, recording over existing re­gions replaces the original audio permanently.
This allows you to conserve hard drive space.
However, if you have sufficient drive space, it is
usually best to use Pro Tools in Non-Destructive
Record mode to avoid losing any previously re­corded material.

Loop Record

Loop Record lets you record take after take while
the same section of audio repeats. This is a con­venient technique for quickly recording multi­ple takes of a part without losing spontaneity.

The time range that is looped and recorded—
which must be at least one second in length—is
defined by selecting a range in the Ruler or in a
track’s playlist, or by specifying start and end
points in the Transport window.

QuickPunch

QuickPunch lets you instantaneously punch-in
(initiate recording) on a record-enabled audio
track during playback, then punch-out (exit re­cording) by clicking the Transport’s Record but­ton. Recording with QuickPunch is non-de­structive.

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Auto Input Monitoring

Loop Playback

In this mode, when session playback is stopped,
Pro Tools monitors audio input. When playback
is started for a punch-in, Pro Tools monitors ex­isting track material up until the punch point.
While punched in, the input signal is moni­tored. On punch-out, monitoring switches back
to the existing track material. This is similar to
the auto-switching logic found on digital and
analog multitrack tape machines.

Input Only Monitoring

In this mode, when a track is record-enabled,
Pro Tools monitors audio input only, regardless
of any punch in or out selection.

Low Latency Monitoring

(LE Systems Only)

Digi 002, Digi 001, and Audiomedia III systems
can use the Low Latency Monitoring option to
record with an extremely small amount of mon­itoring latency, to as many tracks as each system
supports.

Online

This option continuously loops playback of a se­lection until you stop playback. Looping play­back is a useful way to check the rhythmic con­tinuity of a selection when working with
musical material. Selections must be at least 0.5
seconds in length to use Loop Playback.

Scroll Options

Pro Tools provides several options for defining
how the contents of the Edit window scroll dur­ing playback and recording. These include:

No Auto-Scrolling

The No Auto-Scrolling option disables scrolling
during and after playback. With this option en­abled, the playback cursor moves across the Edit
window, indicating the playback location, up to
the right edge of the Edit window.

Scroll After Playback

The Scroll After Playback option causes the Edit
window to scroll to the final playback location
after playback has stopped. With this option en­abled, the playback cursor moves across the Edit
window, indicating the playback location.

This command arms the Pro Tools Transport for
online synchronization. Playback or recording
can then be triggered by an external time code
source. Online recording or playback begins as
soon as Pro Tools receives and locks to time
code or ADAT sync.

Pre/Post-Roll Playback

This command enables pre- and post-roll play­back. Pre- and post-roll amounts can be entered
in the Transport window, set from a track’s play­list or Timebase Ruler, or by recalling a Memory
Location.

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Page Scroll During Playback

The Page Scroll During Playback option causes
the Edit window to scroll during playback. With
this option enabled, the playback cursor moves
across the Edit window, indicating the playback
location. When the right edge of the Edit win­dow is reached, its entire contents are scrolled,
and the playback cursor continues moving from
the left edge of the window.

Continuous Scroll During Playback

(TDM Systems Only)

The Continuous Scroll During Playback option
causes the Edit window’s contents to scroll con­tinuously past the playback cursor, which re­mains in the center of the window. With this
option enabled, playback is always based on the
Timeline selection (unlike Continuous Scroll
With Playhead). This option is available only on
Pro Tools TDM systems.

Copy Edit Selection to Timeline

When the Edit and Timeline selections are un­linked, this command copies the current Edit se­lection to the Timeline.

Copy Timeline Selection to Edit

When the Edit and Timeline selections are un­linked, this command copies the current Time­line selection to an Edit selection.

Continuous Scroll With Playhead

(TDM Systems Only)

Causes the Edit window’s contents to scroll con­tinuously past the Playhead, which is a blue line
in the center of the window (red when record­ing). This option is available only on Pro Tools
TDM systems.

Regardless of which Scrolling option is se­lected in the Operations menu, Pro Tools
does not scroll when zoomed down to the
sample level.

Link Edit and Timeline Selection

This command lets you link or unlink Timeline
selections. When the Edit and Timeline selec­tions are unlinked, you can make a selection
within a track for editing purposes that is dis­tinct from the selection in the Timeline (which
determines the playback and recording range).

When the Edit and Timeline selections are
linked, making a selection in a track’s playlist
(an Edit selection) also defines the play and
record range (the Timeline selection).

Play Timeline Selection

(TDM Systems Only)

This command plays a Timeline selection when
Continuous Scroll with Playhead is enabled.

Play Edit Selection

(TDM Systems Only)

This command plays an Edit selection when
Continuous Scroll with Playhead is enabled

.

Mute Frees Assigned Voice

(TDM Systems Only)

When this option is enabled, a muted track’s
voice will be allocated to the next highest prior­ity track assigned to the same explicit voice.

Auto-Spot Regions

(TDM Systems Only)

When enabled, this option simplifies the task of
spotting regions. If you are using VITC with this
option enabled, or MachineControl software,
you can pause your video at an appropriate
SMPTE frame location, click on a region with
the Grabber, and the region will be automati­cally spotted to the current time code location.

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Active in Background

When enabled, this option allows Pro Tools to
operate in the background while you use an­other application.

Pre-Fader Metering

This option toggles track metering between pre­and post-fader operation. When set to Pre-Fader
Metering, level meters show levels independent
of fader position. With post-fader metering, the
level meters respond to fader position. This op­tion only affects on-screen meters.

Calibration Mode

(TDM Systems Only)

Use the Calibration mode in Pro Tools to adjust
the input and output levels for your audio inter­face (such as the 192 I/O or the 888|24 I/O) so
they match those of your mixing console and
other audio devices in your studio.

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Setups Menu

Setups Menu

This menu lets you configure various Pro Tools
hardware and software parameters.

Setups menu

The Main page of the Hardware Setup dialog can
be used to define what physical ports are routed
to Pro Tools input and output channels. The
Main page also provides controls for Session
Sample Rate, Clock settings, and defining
whether Expansion Port or Legacy Port periph­erals are active (HD systems only).

Hardware Setup

The Hardware Setup dialog has several tabbed
pages in which you can specify your preferred
settings for your hardware and sessions. Config­ure the settings for any audio interface con­nected to your Pro Tools system by selecting it
from the Peripherals list.

Hardware Setup dialog, Main page

Additional pages can be used to configure other
parameters on each audio interface (such as set­ting operating levels). Refer to the Getting Started
Guide for your Pro Tools system.

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Playback Engine

Peripherals

Use the Playback Engine dialog to set Hardware
Buffer Size, CPU Usage Limit (for RTAS plug­ins), the Number of Voices (and voiceable
tracks), Sample Rate, and DAE Playback Buffer
Size for your system and its sessions.

Playback Engine dialog

If you change the Number Of Voices setting
mid-session, the session will be saved, closed,
and reopened to enable the new settings. For de­tails on using this feature, refer to the Getting
Started Guide for your Pro Tools system.

Disk Allocation

The Peripherals dialog has several tabbed pages
(Machine Control, MIDI Controller, Ethernet
Controller, and Microphone Preamp) for config­uring various peripheral device for use with
Pro Tools (such as Digidesign’s SYNC I/O, Pro­Control, or PRE).

Synchronization

This page configures synchronization devices
such as Digidesign’s SYNC I/O to synchronize
Pro Tools to SMPTE Time Code.

Peripherals dialog, Synchronization page

If you are using multiple hard drives for record­ing, this dialog lets you assign each track in a
session to a specific drive. Audio for that track
will then be recorded to the chosen drive.

Disk Allocation dialog

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Machine Control

Ethernet Controllers

This page configures MIDI Machine Control and
9-pin machine control devices for use with
Pro Tools. MIDI Machine Control is supported
on all Pro Tools systems. 9-pin Serial and 9-pin
Remote modes require Digidesign MachineCon­trol™.

Peripherals dialog, Machine Control page

MIDI Controllers

This page configures MIDI control surfaces such
as the CM Labs MotorMix™, Mackie Designs
HUI™, JL Cooper CS-10 family, and the Peavey
PC-1600.

This page configures ProControl, Edit Pack, or
Control|24 for use with Pro Tools.

Peripherals dialog, Ethernet page

Mic Preamps

This page configures one or more Digidesign
PREs for use with Pro Tools.

Peripherals dialog, MIDI Controllers page

Peripherals dialog, Mic Preamps page

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I/O Setup

I/O Setup provides tools to label and map
Pro Tools input, output, insert, and bus signal
paths.

I/O Setup dialog, Output page

In addition, the I/O Setup dialog, like the Main
page of Hardware Setup, provides controls for
routing the physical ports on your audio inter­face (such as a 96 I/O) to Pro Tools Input and
Output channels. The Output page of the
I/O Setup dialog also lets you change the default
path settings for Meter, Audition, and multi­channel track layout (as displayed on-screen).

Feet.Frames

(TDM Systems Only)

For sessions in which feet and frames are the
time scale of reference, this command lets you
enter a Start Frame based on an appropriate
frame location at the beginning of your project
tape. The Feet.Frames Ruler will then use this
value as its start reference.

Feet.Frames dialog

Create Machine Track Arming
Profile

(MachineControl Option Only)

The Create Machine Track Arming Profile win­dow provides extensive control over Pro Tools
Track Arming. You can customize arming, track
naming and mapping, and save configurations
for different machines as Track Arming Profile
files. These Profiles can be imported to quickly
reconfigure Track Arming as needed for future
projects. You can also test track mapping, and
remap tracks if needed.

Edit MIDI Studio Setup

Selecting the Edit MIDI Studio Setup command
launches the Apple Audio MIDI Setup applica­tion. Use Audio MIDI Setup to identify the MIDI
devices connected to your MIDI interface.

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Preferences

The Preferences dialog has several tabbed pages
in which you can specify your preferred settings
for various session parameters. Each new session
will use these preferences.

Display Preferences

Edit Window Follows Bank Selection Causes
Pro Tools to scroll the Edit window to display
the selected bank of tracks when you switch
banks on the MIDI controller, ensuring that the
current selection of tracks in the current bank is
viewable on-screen. This option is only available
if you are using ProControl, Control|24, or a
MIDI control surface that supports Bank chas­ing.

Show Meters in Sends View Shows send level
meters when the Sends View is displaying indi­vidual send controls. If you are using a slower
computer, you can disable this option to reduce
the processing load on your CPU.

current bank is viewable on-screen. This option
is only available if you are using ProControl,
Control|24, or a MIDI control surface that sup­ports Bank chasing.

Draw Grids in Edit Window Adds grid lines to the
Edit window. Grid line resolution is based on
the zoom level of the Edit window.

Draw Waveforms Rectified Displays audio wave­form data in rectified view. In this view, audio
waveforms are displayed so that their positive
and negative waveform excursions (the portions
that fall above and below the center line) are
summed together and viewed as a single posi­tive-value signal. This view allows more wave­form detail to be seen in either normal or re­duced track height views. It can be particularly
useful when editing volume automation data,
since it depicts waveform levels as starting at the
bottom of the track.

Recompute Invalid Overviews Prompts Pro Tools
to look for missing or corrupted overview data
(the data used to create waveform displays)
when it opens sessions. If Pro Tools finds that
overview data is missing or corrupted, it will rec­reate one or more overviews for the session. This
may take some time if there are many tracks in
the session. If you suspect that overview data for
a session has become corrupted, or if you import
audio files which have no overview data into a
session, make sure this preference is enabled for
the session, save and close the session, then re­open it. Pro Tools will recreate any overviews for
the session when it opens.

Mix Window Follows Bank Selection Causes
Pro Tools to scroll the Mix window to display
the selected bank of tracks when you switch
banks on the MIDI controller, ensuring that the

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Edit Window Default Length Lets you set a de­fault length for the Edit window in hours, min­utes, seconds, and frames (the frames value is
only available on Pro Tools TDM systems). This
capability is useful if you wish to assemble a ses­sion of a particular length or leave extra room to
expand the Edit window’s work area in your ses­sion. There is a 13 hour maximum limit for the
length of a Pro Tools session.

Zoom Toggle Track Height Lets you specify a de­fault track height when using Control+Minus to
toggle audio tracks between Waveform and Vol­ume view, or to toggle MIDI tracks between
Notes and Regions view.

Edit Window Color Coding

Edit Window Color Coding determines how col­ors are assigned to the waveform displays in the
Edit window. Choices are:

None Turns off color assignment to the wave­form display of tracks in the Edit window.

Tracks and MIDI Channels Assigns a color to the
waveform display of each track in the Edit win­dow according to its voice number and MIDI
channel assignment.

Peak Hold Options

These options determine how long the peak in­dicators on track meters stay lit after a peak is
detected. Choices are:

3-Second Peak Hold When selected, track meters
display the last peak level for three seconds.

Infinite Peak Hold When selected, track meters
display the last peak level until you click them
to clear them.

No Peak Hold When selected, track meters do
not hold the peak level.

Operation Preferences

Tracks and MIDI Devices Assigns a color to the
waveform display of each track in the Edit win­dow according to its voice number and MIDI de­vice type.

Groups Assigns a color to the waveform display
of each track in the Edit window according to its
group ID. If groups are suspended using the Sus­pend Groups command, all waveforms will be
displayed in black.

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Timeline Insertion Follows Playback When se­lected, causes the screen’s play cursor to update
its location to the point where playback stops.

Edit Insertion Follows Scrub/Shuttle When se­lected, the edit cursor automatically locates to
the point where scrubbing stops.

Support Background Record Applications When
selected, allows other audio recording applica­tions to run in the background concurrently
with Pro Tools. Files recorded in the background
can be imported into Pro Tools, and then
trimmed and viewed while recording continues.

Sends Default to –INF When selected, sets the
initial fader level of newly-created Sends to –∞
(no audible signal level).

Audio During Fast Forward/Rewind When se­lected, audio is audible during fast-forward or re­wind.

Limits Pull Ups To NTSC Film Standards When
deselected, all pull rates are available in the Ses­sion Setup window, regardless of session frame
rate. This option is only available on Pro Tools
TDM systems.

Latch Record Enable Buttons When deselected,
prevents multiple tracks from being record-en­abled: Record-enabling a track takes any other
track out of record-enabled mode.

Latch Solo Buttons When deselected, prevents
multiple tracks from being soloed. Soloing a
track mutes any track that is soloed.

Link Mix and Edit Group Enables When selected,
links enabling and disabling of Mix and Edit
groups: Enabling Group A in the Edit Window
automatically enables Group A in the Mix win­dow.

Use F11 Key for Wait for Note When selected,
pressing the F11 Function key puts MIDI record­ing in Wait for Note mode.

Numeric Keypad Mode

Numeric Keypad Mode determines how the nu­meric keypad functions. You can always use the
numeric keypad to select and enter values in the
Event Edit Area, Location Indicators, and Trans­port fields.

Classic Emulates the way Pro Tools worked in
versions earlier than 5.0. With the Numeric Key­pad Mode set to Classic, you can play up to two
tracks of audio in Shuttle Lock mode. Press Con­trol (Macintosh) or the Start key (Windows), fol­lowed by 0–9 for different play speeds. Press Plus
(+) or Minus (–) to reverse direction. Recall
Memory Locations by typing the Memory Loca­tion number, followed by period (.).

Transport Lets you set a number of record and
play functions, and also operate the Transport
from the numeric keypad. With the Numeric
Keypad Mode set to Transport, you can play up
to two tracks of audio in Shuttle Lock mode.
Press Control (Macintosh) or the Start key (Win­dows), followed by 0–9 for different play speeds.
Press Plus (+) or Minus (–) to reverse direction.
Recall Memory Locations by typing period (.),
the Memory Location number, and period (.)
again.

Shuttle Selects a type of shuttling different from
that of Shuttle Lock mode. With the Numeric
Keypad Mode set to Shuttle, playback is trig­gered by pressing and holding the keys on the
numeric keypad—playback stops once the keys
are released. Various playback speeds are avail­able in both forward and reverse. You can also
recall Memory Locations by typing period (.),
the Memory Location number, and period (.)
again.

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Autosave

Machine Control

This preference determines how the Autosave
feature functions.

Enable Autosave Sets Pro Tools to automatically
saves sessions while you work. Use the Keep and
Save Every fields to specify the total number of
incremental backups that are kept and how of­ten the session is saved.

Online Options

Record Online at Time Code (or ADAT)
Lock When selected, online recording begins as

soon as Pro Tools receives and locks to time
code or ADAT sync.

Record Online at Insertion/Selection When se­lected, online recording begins at the Edit cursor
location. Recording continues until Pro Tools
stops receiving time code. If you make a selec­tion, Pro Tools records online for the length of
the selection.

Open Ended Record Allocation

This preference determines how much of your
available hard drive space is allocated for record­ing. Choices are:

Use All Available Space When selected, the
drive’s entire available space is allocated. This
can sometimes slow down the recording process
for hard drives that use certain file systems, in­cluding HFS+ and NTFS.

Limit To Sets the maximum allowable recording
duration. This can help reduce the time it takes
to begin recording by allocating only a portion
of your hard drive. The number of minutes spec­ified is allocated for each record-enabled track.
You may find it necessary to experiment with
this number to achieve the desired performance
for recording.

These preferences determine how a connected
transport responds to Pro Tools. Choices are:

Machine Chases Memory Location When se­lected, navigating to a specific location in a ses­sion with a Memory Location causes a con­nected transport to chase to that location.

Machine Follows Edit Insertion/Scrub When se­lected, navigating to a specific location in a ses­sion by moving the selection point or by scrub­bing a track will cause a connected transport to
chase to that location. Enabling Machine fol­lows Edit Insertion/Scrub is only recommended
when slaving a non-linear device to Pro Tools.

Machine Cues Intelligently When selected, if you
navigate to a cue point that is more than 10 sec­onds from the current location, Pro Tools will
command a connected transport to shuttle to
the desired location at full speed to within 10
seconds of the cue point. Cueing will then slow
to normal speed until the point is reached. This
significantly speeds up tape cueing.

Stop At Shuttle Speed Zero When selected,
Pro Tools sends a Stop command when shuttle
speed equals zero.

Delay Before Locking To LTC Sets a number of
frames of delay for Pro Tools to wait before at­tempting to lock to Linear Time Code, to com­pensate for the amount of time needed for the
master machine to stabilize. This setting can be
especially useful in a multi-machine environ­ment.

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Remote Mode

(TDM Systems Only)

Punch In Frame Offset Sets an offset in frames to

compensate for punch in timing advances or de­lays.

Punch Out Frame Offset Sets an offset in frames
to compensate for punch out timing advances
or delays.

Delay After Play Command Sets a number of
frames of delay for Pro Tools to wait before at­tempting to lock, to compensate for the amount
of time needed for the master machine to stabi­lize. This setting can be especially useful in a
multi-machine environment.

Editing Preferences

Ignore Track Arming Allows Pro Tools to respond
to all 9-pin remote commands except track arm­ing. Requires the Pro Tools MachineControl op­tion.

Auto Regions Fade In/Out Length Sets a default
length for fade-ins and fade-outs automatically
applied to region boundaries. Using automatic
fade-ins and fade-outs saves you the trouble of
editing to zero-crossings or creating numerous
rendered fades in order to eliminate clicks or
pops in playback. Autofades are not written to
disk. Value range is from 0–10 ms for the Auto
Region Fade In/Out Length. A value of zero (the
default) means that no auto-fading will occur.
The Auto Fade value is saved with the session,
and is automatically applied to all free-standing
region boundaries until you change it. This op­tion is only available on Pro Tools TDM sys­tems.

Calibration Reference Level Sets a default cali­bration reference level in dB when Pro Tools is
in Calibration mode. This option is only avail­able on Pro Tools TDM systems. See the
Pro Tools Reference Guide for details on using Cal­ibration mode.

Recall Original Track Selections When selected,
Memory Locations that recall a selection also re­call the track in which the selection was made.

Auto-Name Memory Locations When
Playing When selected, Pro Tools gives new

memory locations default names based on their
time location in the session. The time units cur­rently chosen in the Display menu determine
the units for the names.

Auto-Name Separated Regions When selected,
Pro Tools automatically names newly separated
regions by appending a number to the region’s
name.

Region List Selection Follows Track
Selection When selected, selecting a region in a

track also selects it in the Regions List.

Track Selection Follows Regions List
Selection When selected, selecting a region in

the Regions List causes Pro Tools to highlight
that region’s occurrence in a track.

Crossfade Preview Pre-Roll This option specifies
the amount of pre-roll to be added when you are
auditioning crossfades in the Fades dialog.

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Crossfade Preview Post-Roll This option speci­fies the amount of post-roll to be added when
you are auditioning crossfades in the Fades dia­log.

Default Fade Settings

“Separate Region” Operates On All Related
Takes When selected, editing a region with the

Separate Region command also affects all other
related takes with the same User Time Stamp.
This option helps you compare different sec­tions from a group of related takes.

Fade In Selects the default envelope shape for
fade-ins.

Crossfade Selects the default envelope shape for
crossfades.

Fade Out Selects the default envelope shape for
fade-outs.

Conversion Quality Selects the sample rate con­version quality. Sample rate conversion is used
in a variety of Pro Tools processes including
converting and importing audio files of differ­ent formats into a session, and bouncing and
saving tracks to a different sample rate or bit
depth. The higher the quality of sample rate
conversion you choose, the longer Pro Tools
will take to process the audio file.

“Matching Start Time” Takes List

Command-clicking (Macintosh) or Control­clicking (Windows) in a track, will display a list
of regions whose time stamp matches the cur­rent cursor location. The preferences that follow
determine which takes appear in this list:

QuickPunch Crossfade Length

This options lets you specify a default length for
crossfades created by QuickPunch recording.
Crossfades occur before the punch in and after
the punch out.

Levels Of Undo

This option lets you set the maximum number
of actions (up to 16) that can be undone with
the multiple undo feature.

Automation Preferences

Take Region Names That Match Track
Names When selected, only regions that share

the same root name with the track and playlist
appear in the Takes List pop-up menu.

Take Region Lengths That Match When selected,
only regions that match the length of the cur­rent selection appear in the Takes List pop-up
menu.

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Faders Move During Playback When selected,
faders move on-screen when automated. When
deselected, faders do not move, but automation
is still functioning.

Smooth and Thin Data After Pass When se­lected, automation is automatically smoothed
and thinned by the amount specified with the
Degree of Thinning option.

Write Switches To Touch After Pass After an au­tomation pass in Auto Write mode, Pro Tools
automatically switches to Auto Touch mode. On
TDM systems you can choose to stay in Auto
Write mode by deselecting this option.

Mutes Follow Groups When selected, muting a
track that belongs to a Mix group mutes all
other members of the group. When deselected,
tracks must be muted individually.

Touch Timeout Specifies how quickly automa­tion recording stops or “times out” after you
stop moving a control surface in Touch mode.

AutoMatch Time Specifies how quickly Pro Tools
returns a fader or other control to its previously
automated level after automation recording
stops.

Amount of Memory for Automation
Recording Lets you reserve additional memory

for recording automation. If you have dense au­tomation data or a large number of automated
tracks, increase this amount. Relaunch
Pro Tools for this setting to take effect.

Solos Follow Groups When selected, soloing a
track that belongs to a Mix group solos all other
members of the group. When deselected, tracks
must be soloed individually.

Send Mutes Follow Groups When selected, mut­ing a Send that belongs to a group mutes all
other members of the group. When deselected,
Sends must be muted individually.

Send Levels Follow Groups When selected, ad­justing the level of a Send that belongs to a
group adjusts the Send levels of all other mem­bers of the group. When deselected, Send levels
must be adjusted individually.

LFEs Follow Groups When selected, adjusting or
editing an LFE control that belongs to a group
adjusts the LFE controls of all other members of
the group. When deselected, LFE controls must
be adjusted individually.

Degree of Thinning Specifies the amount of auto­mation data thinning applied when automation
is recorded. Avoid over thinning automation
data or it may no longer accurately reflect the
original pass.

Processing Preferences

AudioSuite Dither

Use AudioSuite Dither When selected, applies

the AudioSuite Dither plug-in to specific audio
processing tasks (such as Gain and Normalize).

Dither Plug-In Specifies the plug-in used for
dither processing when the Use AudioSuite
Dither option is selected.

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Edit Settings When a Digidesign dithering plug­in is used, allows you to apply either normal or
noise-shaping dither.

Bit Depth

16-, 18-, 20-, and 24-Bit Lets you select a bit

depth for the dithered audio.

AudioSuite Buffer Size

Audio Suite Buffer Size sets the size of the mem­ory buffer used for audio processing and pre­viewing with AudioSuite plug-ins. Generally,
choosing a smaller buffer speeds up AudioSuite
audio previewing functions. Choosing a larger
buffer speeds up AudioSuite processing func­tions. Set the buffer according to your current
task. Before auditioning an AudioSuite plug-in,
set the buffer to Mini or Small. When you pro­cess a file, set it to Large or Jumbo.

TC/E

Compatibility Preferences

Convert All Imported “WAV” Files To
AES31/BroadcastWave When selected, applies

to all newly imported .WAV files, making them
compliant with the AES31/EBU Broadcast stan­dard.

TC/E Plug-In Allows you to choose the plug-in
used for Time Compression and Expansion
when you edit audio with the Time Trimmer
tool. The Time Trimmer works by using Time
Compression/Expansion to match an audio re­gion to the length of another region, a tempo
grid, a video scene, or other reference point.

Default Settings Specifies the default settings
used by the chosen Time Compression/Expan­sion plug-in.

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Avid Compatibility Mode When selected, ensures
that all imported OMF media files are treated as
Read-Only and prevents destructive editing pro­cesses such as those used by the Pencil and Time
Trimmer tools and AudioSuite processing.

MIDI Preferences

Play MIDI Notes When Editing When selected,
causes MIDI notes to sound when you insert
them with the Pencil or drag them with the
Grabber.

Default Note On Velocity Sets the default Note
On velocity for MIDI notes inserted in the Edit
window and the MIDI Event List.

MIDI Note Display Sets the reference for middle
C as C3, C4, or MIDI note number 60.

Default Thru Instrument Sets the default MIDI
Thru instrument from your available MIDI in­struments.

Pencil Tool Resolution When Drawing Controller
Data Sets the default resolution for MIDI con-

troller data created with the Pencil. Setting this
to a lower resolution helps avoid creating con­troller data that is unnecessarily dense. The
value range is from 1 to 100 milliseconds.

Global MIDI Playback Offset Sets an offset in
samples to compensate for MIDI latency. Enter­ing a value here has the same effect as setting an
offset with the MIDI Track Offsets command
(Windows > Show MIDI Track Offsets). Offset
values can be positive (later) or negative (ear­lier).

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Display Menu

Display Menu

Display menu commands control the display of
Pro Tools windows, tracks, and track data. Some
commands display or hide various Pro Tools
windows or data. These act as toggles: selecting
the command displays the data and deselecting
it hides the data.

Display menu

Narrow Mix Window

This command reduces the width of Mix chan­nels on-screen, allowing you to display the max­imum number of tracks on your computer mon­itor. In this view, track names, names of sends,
and plug-in names are abbreviated to accommo­date the smaller view. To return to normal view
width, choose this command again.

Mix Window Shows

This command selectively displays Comments,
Inserts, Sends, and Mic Preamps views in the
Mix window.

Edit Window Shows

This command selectively displays Comments,
I/O, Inserts, Sends, and Mic Preamps views in
the Edit window.

Transport Window Shows

This command selectively displays Counters,
MIDI Controls, and Expanded controls in the
Transport window.

Sends View Shows

This command displays either send assignments
for all sends, or the controls for individual sends
(Sends A–E).

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Ruler View Shows

This command selectively displays various
Timebase and Conductor Rulers in the Edit win­dow. In addition to providing a timing reference
for track material, Timebase Rulers are used to
define Edit and Timeline selections.

System Usage Window Shows

(TDM Systems Only)

This command sets the display format for the
System Usage window. The System Usage win­dow shows the usage of DSP and CPU resources
during a session.

Disk Space Window Shows

User Time Stamp Displays the User Time Stamp
of all regions in all tracks. When a file is first re­corded, its User Time Stamp is identical to its
original time stamp. You can change the User
Time Stamp using the Time Stamp Selected
command in the Audio Regions List. This allows
you to use a custom time stamp for spotting or
re-spotting the region to a time location differ­ent from its Original Time Stamp.

Display Name in Regions

This command allows you to display or hide a
region’s name in tracks in the Edit window. Hid­ing a display is useful if you are working at a
zoom level where region names obscure the
view of audio waveforms.

This command specifies either a text-based or
“gas-gauge” style display format for the Disk
Space window. The Disk Space window shows
how much recording time is currently available
on each hard drive connected to your system.

Display Time in Regions

This command displays the time stamp of all re­gions in currently displayed tracks. When a re­gion is created, it is time stamped relative to the
SMPTE start time specified for the session. This
original time stamp is permanently stored with
the region and cannot be changed. If a region is
ever moved, it can easily be placed at its original
position using the Spot dialog.

None Disables time stamp display in regions.

Current Time Displays the time stamp of all re-

gions placed in all tracks according to their cur­rent location in the track.

Original Time Stamp Displays the Original Time
Stamp of all regions in all tracks.

Display Auto-Created Regions

Deselecting this command streamlines the dis­play of region names in the Regions Lists by hid­ing automatically created regions. These are re­gions that were created as a by-product of
cutting, pasting, and separating other regions.
Since these by-product regions can become nu­merous, hiding them helps you to avoid scroll­ing through unnecessarily long Regions Lists.

Bars:Beats

This command displays the Time Scale in Bars
and Beats. Use this Time Scale if you are working
with musical material that must align with bars
and beats.

Minutes:Seconds

This command displays the time scale in min­utes and seconds.

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Time Code

(TDM Systems Only)

This command displays the Time Scale in
SMPTE frames. The Frame Rate and Session Start
time are set from the Session Setup window.
Pro Tools supports the following frame rates: 24,
25, 29.97 Non-Drop, 29.97 Drop, 30 Non-Drop,
and 30 Drop frames per second.

Feet.Frames

(TDM Systems Only)

This command displays the Time Scale in feet
and frames for referencing audio-for-film
projects. The Feet.Frames time display is based
on the 35 millimeter film format.

Samples

This command displays the Time Scale in sam­ples. This format is useful for high-resolution
sample editing.

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Windows Menu

Windows Menu

The Windows menu has commands that show
or hide various Pro Tools windows. They act as
toggles: Selecting the command displays the de­sired window (the menu item will change from
Show to Hide); selecting it again hides the win­dow (the menu item will change from Hide to
Show).

For Windows menu items, keyboard short­cuts (including numbers 1–9) only work us­ing the numeric keypad on your computer.

Show Mix

This command displays the Mix window, used
for recording and mixing tasks. Show Mix is
available when the Edit window is active. Hide
Mix is available when the Mix window is active.

Show Edit

This command displays the Edit window, used
for graphical editing and arranging of audio,
MIDI and automation. Show Edit is available
when the Mix window is active. Hide Edit is
available when the Edit window is active.

Show Task Window

This command displays the Task Window, used
to monitor, pause, or cancel ongoing tasks.

Windows menu

Show Workspace

This command displays the Workspace browser,
used for Pro Tools file management. The
Project, Volume, and Catalog (TDM systems
only) browsers can be accessed from the Work­space browser.

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Show Project Browser

Show Tempo/Meter

This command displays the Project Browser,
used for Pro Tools file management.

Browsers

Use the Browsers sub-menu to select a currently
open browser and bring it to the front. The
Browsers sub-menu can also be used to bring all
currently open browsers to the front, or send all
browsers to the back.

Show MIDI Event List

This command opens the MIDI Event List win­dow. This floating window shows the contents
of a MIDI track in a single, easy to read list. Us­ing the MIDI Event List, you can quickly and
precisely insert, edit, or locate any type of MIDI
data using your computer keyboard.

MIDI Event List

This command opens the Tempo/Meter win­dow. This window lets you manipulate MIDI
data using the Tempo Change and Meter
Change commands.

Tempo/Meter window

Show MIDI Operations

This command opens the MIDI Operations win­dow. This floating window lets you configure
specific MIDI data by choosing any of the fol­lowing commands from the pop-up menu at the
top of the window:

◆ Quantize

◆ Groove Quantize

◆ Restore Performance

◆ Flatten Performance

◆ Change Velocity

◆ Change Duration

◆ Transpose

◆ Select Notes

◆ Split Notes

◆ Input Quantize

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MIDI Operations window

Show MIDI Track Offsets

This command opens the MIDI Track Offsets
window. This window lets you create timing off­sets for MIDI tracks to compensate for MIDI-to­audio latencies in hardware-based or software­based MIDI synthesizers.

Show Transport

This command opens the Transport window.
This window can display counters, MIDI con­trols, and basic or expanded transport controls
(configure the Transport window from Display >
Transport Window Shows).

Transport window

Show Session Setup

This command opens the Session Setup win­dow. This window lets you configure various
session parameters including session start
frame, SMPTE frame rate, offset settings,
SYNC I/O settings (clock and pull-up/pull­down), and several time code parameters.

MIDI Track Offsets window

By configuring a MIDI offset, you can make
MIDI tracks play back slightly earlier (by a spe­cific number of samples), thereby compensating
for any audio monitoring latencies. MIDI offsets
affect playback only and do not alter how MIDI
data is displayed in the Edit window.

Session Setup window

Show Big Counter

This command opens the Big Counter window.
This window provides a large, easy to see refer­ence for the current session time location. Time
is displayed in the currently chosen Main Time
Scale format.

Big Counter window

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Show Automation Enable

This command opens the Automation Enable
window. This window lets you enable or sus­pend the writing of volume, pan, mute, plug-in,
send level, send pan, and send mute automation
for all tracks.

Automation Enable window

Before you can record automation, the desired
automation type must be enabled. Buttons are
highlighted when enabled. To suspend writing
of automation, deselect the button for the de­sired automation type.

Show Memory Locations

This command opens the Memory Locations
window. Here you can store up to 200 time lo­cation markers, selections, zoom settings, pre­and post-roll times, track show and hide states,
track height states, and group enables. To recall
a memory location, click the button for the de­sired location or, on your computer’s numeric
keypad, press the number of the location fol­lowed by a period (.).

Show Machine Track Arm

(MachineControl Option Only)

This command opens the Machine Track Arm
window. When using MachineControl, this
window lets you record-arm external recording
devices from within Pro Tools.

Show Universe

(TDM Systems Only)

This command opens the Universe window.
This window provides a visual overview of all
tracks in a session. Use the Universe window to
quickly click and go to any location in a session.

Universe window

Show Beat Detective

(TDM Systems Only)

This command opens the Beat Detective win­dow. Beat Detective automatically detects the
tempo of a session and conforms an audio track
or selection to that tempo by separating it into
regions and aligning it to the beats. Beat Detec­tive is ideal for tailoring a performance to a
groove. For detailed information about Beat De­tective, refer to the Pro Tools Reference Guide.

Memory Locations window

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Beat Detective window

Show Movie Window

Show System Usage

This command opens the Movie window. This
window displays QuickTime movies imported
into the current session using the Import Movie
command. The movie serves as a sample-accu­rate, random-access reference for spotting
sound effects, music, Foley, dialog, or other au­dio to the QuickTime movie.

Movie window

Show Strip Silence

This command opens the Strip Silence window.
Use this window to remove areas of silence from
a selection. Strip Silence automatically divides a
selection into regions, which can be useful for
quantizing audio to musical values or SMPTE lo­cations.

Strip Silence window

This command opens the System Usage win­dow. This window shows how much of your sys­tem’s DSP and CPU processing capacity is in use
by the current session.

System Usage window, TDM systems (HD shown)

System Usage window, LE systems

Show Disk Space

This command opens the Disk Space window.
This window shows the recording capacity of
each hard drive attached to your system, mea­sured in track minutes. This calculation is based
on the bit depth and sample rate of the current
session.

Disk Space window

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Numerics

1-Band EQ plug-in 17
3-Second Peak Hold preference 42
4-Band EQ plug-in 17

A

Active in Background option 36
Add Movie command 31
All Notes Off command 28
Amount of Memory for Automation Recording

47

option
Audio During Fast Forward/Rewind option 43
AudioSuite Buffer Size preference 48
AudioSuite Dither preferences 47
AudioSuite menu 17

Chorus plug-in 17
Compressor plug-in 17
DC Offset Removal plug-in 18
Delay plug-in 18
Duplicate plug-in 18
dynamics plug-ins 17, 18
EQ II plug-ins 17
Expander-Gate plug-in 18
Flanger plug-in 18
Gain plug-in 18
Gate plug-in 18
Invert plug-in 18
Limiter plug-in 19
Multi-Tap Delay plug-in 19
Normalize plug-in 19
Ping-Pong Delay plug-in 19
Pitch Shift plug-in 19
Reverse plug-in 19
Signal Generator plug-in 19
Time Compression/Expansion plug-in 19

Auto Input Monitoring option 34
Auto Regions Fade In/Out Length option 45
AutoMatch Time option 47
Automation Preferences 46
Auto-Name Memory Locations While Playing option

45

Auto-Name Separated Regions option 45
AutoSave option 44
Auto-Spot Regions command 35
Avid Compatibility Mode option 48

B

Bars:Beats Time Scale 52
Bounce options

Conversion Quality 6
Convert After Bounce 6
Convert During Bounce 6
File Type 5
Format 5
Import After Bounce 6
Resolution 5
Sample Rate 6
Source 5
Use Squeezer 6

Bounce to Disk command 5
Bounce to Movie command 30
Browsers sub-menu 56

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C

Calibration Mode command 36
Calibration Reference Level preference 45
Capture Region command 12
Change Duration command 24
Change Meter command 22
Change Tempo command 21
Change Velocity command 24
Chorus plug-in 17
Classic Numeric Keypad Mode 43
Clear command 12
Clear Movie Track command 31
Clear Selection command (movies) 31
Click command 26
Click Options command 26
Close Session command 4
Compatibility Preferences 48
Compress/Expand Edit To Play command 13
Compressor plug-in 17
Consolidate Selection command 13
Continuous Scroll During Playback option 35
Continuous Scroll with Playhead option 35
Control|24 39
Conversion Quality option 6, 46
Convert .WAV files to AES31/BroadcastWave

48

option
Convert After Bounce option 6
Convert During Bounce option 6
Copy command 11
Copy Edit Selection to Timeline command 35
Copy Timeline Selection to Edit command 35
Copy To Send command 15
Create Fades command 14
Create Machine Track Arming Profile 40
Crossfade Preference for Pre/Post-Roll option 46
Current Time option 52
Cut command 11

D

DC Offset Removal plug-in 18
Default Fade Settings 46
Default Note On Velocity option 49
Default Settings preference 48
Degree of Thinning option 47
Delay Before Locking To LTC option 44
Delay plug-in 18
Delete Fades command 15
Delete Selected Tracks command 7
Destructive Record mode 33
Disk Allocation command 38
Disk Space Window Shows command 52
Display Auto-Created Regions option 52
Display menu 51

Bars:Beats Time Scale 52
Disk Space Window Shows command 52
Display Auto-Created Regions option 52
Display Name in Regions option 52
Display Time in Regions option 52
Edit Window Shows option 51
Feet.Frames Time Scale 53
Minutes:Seconds Time Scale 52
Mix Window Shows option 51
Narrow Mix Window option 51
Ruler View Shows option 52
Samples Time Scale 53
Sends View Shows command 51
Show Mix Window command 55
Show Project Browser command 56
Show Task Window command 55
Show Workspace Browser command 55
System Usage Window Shows command 52
Time Code Time Scale 53
Transport Window Shows command 51

Display Name in Regions option 52
Display Preferences 41
Display Time in Regions option 52
Dither Plug-In preference 47
Draw Grids in Edit Window option 41
Draw Waveforms Rectified option 41
Duplicate command 12
Duplicate plug-in 18
Duplicate Selected Tracks command 7
D-Verb 17

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E

Edit Dither Settings preference 48
Edit Insertion Follows Scrub/Shuttle option 42
Edit menu

Capture Region command 12
Clear command 12
Compress/Expand Edit To Play command 13
Consolidate Selection command 13
Copy command 11
Copy To Send command 15
Cut command 11
Duplicate command 12
Fades command 14
Heal Separation command 13
Identify Beat command 14
Identify Sync Point command 13
Insert Silence command 14
Lock/Unlock Regions command 13
Merge Paste command 12
Mute/Unmute Region command 13
Paste command 11
Quantize Regions command 13
Redefine Current Time Code Position command

14
Redo command 11
Repeat command 12
Repeat Paste To Fill Selection command 12
Select All command 12
Separate Region command 13
Shift command 12
Thin Automation command 15
Trim Automation command 16
Trim Automation To All Enabled Parameters

command 16
Trim Automation To Current Parameter

command 16
Trim command 12
Undo command 11
Write Automation command 15
Write Automation To All Enabled Parameters

command 15
Write Automation To Current Parameter

command 15

Edit MIDI Studio Setup command 40
Edit Window Color Coding option 42
Edit Window Default Length option 42
Edit Window Follows Bank Selection option 41
Edit Window Shows option 51

Editing Preferences

Crossfade Preference for Pre/Post-Roll option

46

Enable Autosave option 44
Enforce Mac/PC Compatibility option 3
EQ II plug-ins 17
Ethernet Controllers page 39
Expander-Gate plug-in 18
Export MIDI command 9
Export Selected Tracks as OMF command 9
Export Session as Text command 9

F

Fade To End command 15
Fade To Start command 15
Faders Move During Playback option 46
Fades command 14
Feet.Frames command 40
Feet.Frames Time Scale 53
File menu

Bounce to Disk command 5
Close Session command 4
Delete Selected Tracks command 7
Duplicate Selected Tracks command 7
Export MIDI command 9
Export Selected Tracks as OMF command 9
Export Session as Text command 9
Get Info command 10
Group Selected Tracks command 6
Import Audio to Track command 9
Import MIDI to Track command 9
Import Session Data command 8
Log Offline Media command 9
Make Selected Tracks Inactive/Active

command 7
New Session command 3
New Track command 6
Open Session command 4
Revert to Saved command 5
Save Session As command 4
Save Session command 4
Save Session Copy In command 4
Split Selected Tracks Into Mono command 7

Flanger plug-in 18
Flatten Performance command 23

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G

Gain plug-in 18
Gate plug-in 18
Get Info command 10
Global MIDI Playback Offset option 49
Groove Quantize command 23
Group Selected Tracks command 6

H

Hardware Setup dialog 37
Heal Separation command 13
Highest Priority Playback option 30

I

I/O Setup command 40
Identify Beat command 14
Identify Sync Point command 13
Import Audio From Current Movie command 29
Import Audio From Other Movie command 29
Import Audio to Track command 9
Import MIDI to Track command 9
Import Movie command 29
Import Session Data command 8
Infinite Peak Hold preference 42
Input Devices command 28
Input Filter command 27
Input Only Monitoring option 34
Input Quantize command 26
Insert Silence command 14
Invert plug-in 18

L

Latch Record Enable Buttons option 43
Latch Solo Buttons option 43
Levels of Undo option 46
LFEs Follow Groups option 47
Limit To option 44
Limiter plug-in 19
Limits Pull Ups To NTSC Film Standards option 43
Link Edit and Timeline Selection option 35
Link Mix and Edit Group Enables option 43
Lock/Unlock Regions command 13
Log Offline Media command 9

Loop Playback option 34
Loop Record mode 33

M

Machine Chases Memory Location option 44
Machine Control option 44
Machine Control page 39
Machine Cues Intelligently option 44
Machine Follows Edit Insertion/Scrub option 44
Make Selected Tracks Inactive/Active command 7
Matching Start Time Takes List preference 46
Medium Priority Playback option 30
Merge Paste command 12
Mic Preamps page 39
MIDI Beat Clock command 27
MIDI Controllers page 39
MIDI menu

All Notes Off command 28
Change Duration command 24
Change Meter command 22
Change Tempo command 21
Change Velocity command 24
Click Options command 26
Flatten Performance command 23
Groove Quantize command 23
Input Devices command 28
Input Filter command 27
Input Quantize command 26
MIDI Beat Clock command 27
MIDI Thru option 28
Quantize command 22
Renumber Bars command 22
Restore Performance command 23
Select Notes command 25
Split Notes command 25
Transpose command 25

MIDI Preferences 49

Pencil Tool Resolution When Drawing Controller

Data option 49

MIDI Thru option 28
Minutes:Seconds Time Scale 52
Mix Window Follows Bank Selection option 41
Mix Window Shows option 51

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Movie menu

Add Movie command 31
Bounce to Movie command 30
Clear Movie Track command 31
Clear Selection command 31
Highest Priority Playback option 30
Import Audio From Current Movie command 29
Import Audio From Other Movie command 29
Import Movie command 29
Medium Priority Playback option 30
Movie Online command 30
New Movie Track command 30
Normal Priority Playback option 30
Play DV Out FireWire Port command 31
Set Movie Sync Offset command 30
Undo Add Movie command 31
Window Aspect Ratio command 31

Movie Online command 30
Multi-Tap Delay plug-in 19
Mute Frees Assigned Voice option 35
Mute/Unmute Region command 13
Mutes Follow Groups option 47

N

Narrow Mix Window option 51
New Movie Track command 30
New Session command 3
New Track command 6
No Auto-Scrolling option 34
No Peak Hold preference 42
Normal Priority Playback option 30
Normalize plug-in 19
Numeric Keypad Mode 43
Numeric Keypad modes 43

O

Online option 34, 44
Open Ended Record Allocation option 44
Open Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) 9
Open Session command 4
Operation Preferences 42
Operations menu

Active in Background option 36
Auto Input Monitoring option 34
Auto-Spot Regions command 35
Calibration Mode command 36
Copy Edit Selection to Timeline command 35
Copy Timeline Selection to Edit command 35
Destructive Record mode 33
Input Only Monitoring option 34
Link Edit and Timeline Selection option 35
Loop Playback option 34
Loop Record mode 33
Mute Frees Assigned Voice option 35
Online option 34
Play Edit Selection command 35
Play Timeline Selection command 35
Pre/Post Roll Playback command 34
Pre-Fader Metering command 36
QuickPunch mode 33
Scroll Options command 34

Original Time Stamp 52

P

Page Scroll During Playback option 34
Paste command 11
Peak Hold option 42
Pencil Tool Resolution When Drawing Controller

Data option

Peripherals command 38

Ethernet Controllers page 39
Machine Control page 39
Mic Preamps page 39
MIDI Controllers page 39
Synchronization page 38

Ping-Pong Delay plug-in 19
Pitch Shift plug-in 19
Play DV Out FireWire Port command 31
Play Edit Selection command 35
Play MIDI Notes When Editing option 49
Play Timeline Selection command 35
Playback Engine dialog 38

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Playhead 35
Pre/Post Roll Playback command 34
Pre-Fader Metering command 36
Preferences

AudioSuite Dither

Bit Depth option 48

Preferences command 41
Pro Tools menu 1

Quit command 1

Processing Preferences 47
ProControl 39
Punch In Frame Offset preference 45
Punch Out Frame Offset preference 45

Q

Quantize command 22
Quantize Regions command 13
QuickPunch 33
QuickPunch Crossfade Length option 46
QuickTime movies 29
Quit command 1

R

Recall Original Track Selections preference 45
Recompute Invalid Overviews preference 41
Record Online at Insertion/Selection preference

44

Record Online at Time Code (or ADAT) Lock

preference
Redefine Current Time Code Position command 14
Redo command 11
Region List Selection Follows Track Selection

option
Remote Mode option 45
Renumber Bars command 22
Repeat command 12
Repeat Paste To Fill Selection command 12
Restore Performance command 23
Reverse plug-in 19
Revert to Saved command 5
Ruler View Shows option 52

44

45

S

Samples Time Scale 53
Save Session As command 4
Save Session command 4
Save Session Copy In command 4

Items To Copy 5

All Audio Files 5
Movie/Video Files 5
Root Plug-In Settings Folder 5
Session Plug-In Settings Folder 5

Scroll After Playback option 34
Scroll Options command 34
Select All command 12
Select Notes command 25
Send Levels Follow Groups option 47
Send Mutes Follow Groups option 47
Sends Default to -INF preference 43
Sends View Shows command 51
Separate Region command 13
Separate Region Operates On All Related Takes

46

option
Set Movie Sync Offset command 30
Setups menu

Create Machine Track Arming Profile 40
Disk Allocation command 38
Edit MIDI Studio Setup command 40
Feet.Frames command 40
Hardware Setup dialog 37
I/O Setup command 40
Peripherals command 38
Playback Engine dialog 38
Preferences command 41

Shift command 12
Show Automation Enable command 58
Show Beat Detective command 58
Show Big Counter command 57
Show Disk Space command 59
Show Edit Window command 55
Show Machine Track Arm command 58
Show Memory Locations command 58
Show Meters in Sends View preference 41
Show MIDI Event List command 56
Show MIDI Operations command 56
Show MIDI Track Offsets command 57
Show Mix Window command 55
Show Movie Window command 59

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Show Project Browser command 56
Show Session Setup command 57
Show Strip Silence command 59
Show System Usage command 59
Show Task Window command 55
Show Tempo/Meter command 56
Show Transport command 57
Show Universe command 58
Show Workspace Browser command 55
Shuttle, Numeric Keypad mode 43
sibilants 18
Signal Generator plug-in 19
Smooth and Thin Data After Pass option 47
snapshot automation 16
Solos Follow Groups option 47
Split Notes command 25
Split Selected Tracks Into Mono command 7
Stop At Shuttle Speed Zero option 44
Support Background Record Applications

preference
Synchronization page 38
System Usage Window Shows command 52

43

T

Take Region Lengths That Match option 46
Take Region Names That Match Track Names

46

option
TC/E Plug-In preference 48
Thin Automation command 15
Time Code Time Scale 53
Time Compression/Expansion plug-in 19
time stamp 52
Timeline Insertion Follows Playback option 42
Touch Timeout option 47
Track Selection Follows Regions List Selection

45

option
Transport Numeric Keypad Mode 43
Transport Window Shows command 51
Transpose command 25
Trim Automation command 16
Trim Automation To All Enabled Parameters

command
Trim Automation To Current Parameter command

16

Trim command 12

16

U

Undo Add Movie command 31
Undo command 11
Use All Available Space preference 44
Use AudioSuite Dither preference 47
Use F11 for Wait for Note option 43
Use Squeezer option 6
User Time Stamp 52

W

Window Aspect Ratio command 31
Windows menu

Show Automation Enable command 58
Show Beat Detective command 58
Show Big Counter command 57
Show Disk Space command 59
Show Machine Track Arm command 58
Show Memory Locations command 58
Show MIDI Event List command 56
Show MIDI Operations command 56
Show MIDI Track Offsets command 57
Show Movie Window command 59
Show Session Setup command 57
Show Strip Silence command 59
Show System Usage command 59
Show Tempo/Meter command 56
Show Transport command 57
Show Universe command 58

Write Automation command 15
Write Automation To All Enabled Parameters

command

Write Automation To Current Parameter command

15

Write Switches to Touch After Pass preference 47

15

Z

Zoom Toggle Track Height option 42

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