Specifications

Getting Started with MIX56
Main Windows
The Mix, Edit, and Transport windows are the
main Pro Tools work areas. You can show any of
these windows by choosing them from the Win-
dows menu.
Mix Window Displays the Pro Tools mixer, with
its familiar fader strip controls for volume, pan,
solo, mute, and signal routing.
Edit Window Displays tracks in the session along
the Timeline, for editing of audio, MIDI, and au-
tomation data.
Transport Provides standard transport controls
for Play, Stop, Rewind, Fast-Forward, Pause, and
Record. The Transport window can also show
Counter and MIDI Control displays.
Session Setup Provides status display for impor-
tant Pro Tools session settings, including sam-
ple and frame rate, clock source, and file format.
Also includes the Current Time Code counter,
and controls for clock reference, positional ref-
erence, and other time code features for the
Digidesign SYNC I/O or Universal Slave Driver.
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Press Command+Equals (=) on Macintosh,
or Control+Equals (=) in Windows to
switch between the Edit and Mix windows.
Figure 3. Main session windows
Session Setup window
Tracks
Tracks
Rulers
Transport window
Mix window
Edit window