Specifications

Chapter 8: Preferences 131
Transport RecordLock (Pro Tools HD and
Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit
Only)
This option lets the Transport Record (the
Record button in the Transport controls) be config-
ured to either emulate a digital dubber, or to main-
tain legacy behavior for the Transport master Re-
cord.
• When selected, the Transport Record remains
armed when playback or recording stops. This
saves having to re-arm the Transport between
takes, emulating digital dubber behavior.
• When not selected, the Transport Record dis-
arms when Pro Tools is manually stopped or
stops due to a loss of timecode. This replicates
standard Pro Tools recording behavior.
The
Transport RecordLock option is automatically
disabled and grayed out when Destructive Record
mode is enabled.
Disable “Input” When Disarming Track
(In “Stop”) (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit Only)
For flexibil-
ity, TrackInput monitoring can be customized to
remain selected regardless of track record status,
or to automatically switch to Auto Input monitor-
ing after a recording pass. This lets you optimize
monitoring for a typical dubbing workflow (in
which you might want tracks to remain in Input
Only mode until explicitly switched to Auto Input
monitoring) or a typical music tracking workflow
(in which leaving a track in Input Only monitoring
mode after recording can result in accidental dou-
ble-monitoring).
• When selected, taking an audio track out of re-
cord enable (any mode) takes it out of Input
Only mode, regardless of the global monitor
mode, and switches it to monitor audio from
disk only.
• When not selected, audio tracks remain in Input
Only monitoring mode until explicitly switched
to Auto Input monitoring.
Mute Record-Armed Tracks While Stopped
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Pro-
duction Toolkit Only)
This setting determines
monitor status of record-armed tracks.
• When selected, Pro Tools mutes all record-en-
abled tracks when the transport is stopped. Input
can still be monitored while stopped using the
TrackInput Monitor button.
• When not selected, Pro Tools does not mute au-
dio input on record-enabled tracks when the
transport is stopped.
PEC/Direct Style Input Monitoring (Pro Tools HD
and Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit
Only)
This option changes the way the TrackInput
monitoring mode is indicated on-screen (and on
supported control surfaces) to emulate “PEC”
(playback) and “Direct” (input/bus) indication on
some large format consoles.
• When not selected, the TrackInput button shows
the letter “I.” The button remains gray to indi-
cate Auto Input mode and lights green to indi-
cate Input Only mode.
• When selected, the TrackInput button remains
gray and shows the letter “D” to indicated Input
Only mode (“Direct”); it lights green and shows
the letter “P” to indicate Auto Input mode (“Pec”
or playback).
Automatically Create New Playlists When Loop
Recording
When selected, copies loop recorded
alternate takes to new playlists in the track. This is
especially useful to prepare for track compositing
in Playlists view after loop recording multiple al-
ternate takes.