Specifications

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Opening a Session that was
Saved with +6 dB Fader Gain
All Pro Tools 7.x and higher sessions have a
+12 dB fader gain level. However, when saving a
Pro Tools 7.x or higher session to a lower version
of Pro Tools that supports +6 dB and +12 dB fader
gain, the new session can be saved with either a
+6 dB or a +12 dB maximum fader gain.
When saving a +12 dB session as a +6 dB session,
Pro Tools alerts you that any automation settings
over +6 dB will be lowered to +6 dB. See “Saving
a Copy of a Session” on page 176.
In Pro Tools 7.x or higher, when opening a session
that was saved with a +6 dB maximum gain level,
the session will update to a +12 dB range.
Opening Recent Sessions
The Open Recent submenu in the File menu lets
you open any of the 10 most recently opened
Pro Tools sessions.
To open a recent session:
 Choose File > Open Recent and choose the ses-
sion you want to open.
If a session is open when choosing a recent session,
you are prompted to save it before Pro Tools closes
the session and opens the chosen recent session.
To open the most recent session:
 Control+Shift+O (Windows) or
Command+Shift+O (Mac).
To clear the recent sessions submenu:
 Choose File > Open Recent and choose Clear.
Opening a Session with
Plug-Ins Deactivated
Pro Tools lets you open sessions with all of the ses-
sion’s plug-ins set to inactive. Since sessions with
a lot of plug-ins can take a long time to load, this
lets you quickly open any session for immediate
visual inspection and audio playback (without
plug-ins). If it is the session that you want to work
with, you can easily reopen the session with plug-
ins activated.
To open a Pro Tools session with all plug-ins set to
inactive:
1 In Pro Tools, choose File > Open Session.
2 In the Open Session dialog, locate and select the
session you want.
3 Shift-click Open.
To re-open the same session with all plug-ins set
to active, do one of the following:
 Choose File > Revert To Saved.
 Choose File > Open Recent and select the most
recent session in the submenu.
Press Control+Shift+O (Windows) or
Command+Shift+O (Mac) to open the
most recent session.
Instead of reverting to the saved version of
the session to open the session with all plug-
ins active, you can simply make an individual
plug-in active by Control-Start-clicking
(Windows) or Command-Control-clicking
(Mac) it. To make an entire row of plug-ins
active, Control-Alt-Start-click (Windows) or
Command-Option-Control-click (Mac) any
plug-in in the row of inserts.