Specifications

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Setting Voice Assignment
A track’s voice assignment can be turned off or set
to be dynamically allocated, and with
Pro Tools|HD systems, can also be explicitly as-
signed to a specific voice number.
On all Pro Tools systems, you can use Dynami-
cally Allocated Voicing to automatically take care
of voice management in the background, assigning
voices not in use by other tracks.
With Pro Tools|HD systems, tracks assigned to a
specific voice number take priority over dynami-
cally allocated tracks and support voice borrowing
(see “Voice Borrowing” on page 248). To ensure
that a track is heard, or that it is available for
QuickPunch, TrackPunch, or DestructivePunch re-
cording, assign an explicit voice to that track.
For stereo and multichannel tracks, voices appear
in pairs and multichannel groups. Voices already
explicitly assigned to another track appear in bold
in the Voice selector’s pop-up menu.
To set the voice assignment for a track:
 Click the Voice selector and set the track to Dyn,
Off, or select a voice number (Pro Tools|HD
systems only).
Pro Tools supports Dynamically Allocated
Voicing only; it does not support explicit voice
assignments.
With Pro Tools HD, QuickPunch, Track-
Punch, and DestructivePunch require addi-
tional voices. For more information, see
Chapter 23, “Punch Recording Modes.”
With Pro Tools|HD and HDX, the initial in-
sert of a Native (host-based) plug-in uses ad-
ditional voices in certain situations. See
“Voice Usage and Total Latency for Native
(Host-Based) Plug-Ins” on page 988.
Voice selector for stereo audio track (Pro Tools|HD
system shown)
Elastic Audio and RTAS plug-ins are
not allowed on explicitly voiced tracks
(Pro Tools|HD systems only). Use
Dynamically Allocated Voicing for
tracks on which you want to use Elas-
tic Audio or RTAS plug-ins.