Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide230
Duplicating VCA Slave Tracks
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete
Production Toolkit Only)
Duplicating a VCA slave track without duplicating
its group assignments will coalesce any automa-
tion on the duplicate track. The coalesced dupli-
cate plays back exactly as if it were in the VCA
group. For more information, see “VCA Master
Tracks” on page 939.
Track Views
The Track View determines which data is dis-
played and edited in the track’s playlist area. Track
View data can be set to Playlists, Blocks, Analysis,
Warp, Waveform, Volume, Volume Trim, Mute,
Pan, Send, or an automated control or continuous
controller, based on the track type and your
Pro Tools system.
Audio Tracks Can be set to Blocks, Playlists, Anal-
ysis
, Warp, Waveform, Volume, Volume Trim,
Mute, Pan, Send controls, or any plug-in controls
that are enabled for automation. By default, audio
tracks are set to Waveform view where track mate-
rial is graphically drawn with amplitude wave-
forms (a time-domain representation of sound).
This Track View provides the necessary detail for
important clip edits.
Auxiliary Input Tracks Can be set to Volume, Vol-
ume Trim
, Mute, Pan, Send controls, or any plug-in
controls that are enabled for automation.
Master Fader Tracks Can be set to Volume, Vol-
ume Trim
, or any plug-in controls that are enabled
for automation.
VCA Master Tracks (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools
with Complete Production Toolkit Only)
Can be
set to
Volume, Volume Trim, or Mute.
MIDI Tracks Can be set to Blocks, Clips, Notes, Ve-
locity
, Volume, Mute, Pan, Pitch Bend, Mono After
Touch
, Program Change, Sysex, and any continu-
ous controller type. MIDI tracks are commonly set
to
Notes or Clips, each of which displays notes in a
“piano roll” format. Use Clips view to edit and ar-
range MIDI clips. Use Notes view for inserting and
editing MIDI notes. Other MIDI track views are
useful for editing velocity, controller data, pro-
gram changes, and Sysex events.
Instrument Tracks Can be set to Blocks, Clips,
Notes, Velocity, Volume, Mute, Pan, Pitch Bend,
Mono After Touch, Program Change, Sysex, and
any continuous controller type for MIDI; as well as
Volume, Volume Trim, Mute, Pan, Send controls,
or any plug-in controls that enabled for automa-
tion. Instrument tracks are commonly set to
Notes
or
Clips, each of which displays notes in a “piano
roll” format. Use Notes view for inserting, editing,
and copying and pasting MIDI notes. Use Clip
view to arrange, capture, or consolidate clips.
Other Instrument track views are useful for editing
automation, controller data, program changes, and
Sysex events.
Video Tracks For information on video track
views, see “Video Track View” on page 1196.
Blocks Track View
With the Track View set to Blocks, audio and
MIDI clips are displayed as empty blocks bearing
the clip’s name. This Track View is most useful
once you have finished capturing and editing clips
at the waveform or MIDI event level and are mov-
ing and rearranging them. Screen redraws are fast-
est with this format.