Specifications

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Voice Assignment with Complete
Production Toolkit
Complete Production Toolkit lets you play or re-
cord up to 256 voices simultaneously at 44.1 or
48 kHz and up to 128 voices at 88.2 or 96 kHz.
Each channel of an audio track uses a single voice.
For example, you can have up to 256 mono audio
tracks or up to 128 stereo audio tracks at 44.1 or
48 kHz.
Maximum track counts are only supported with
multiple hard drives and faster Avid-qualified sys-
tems.
Track Priority and Dynamic Voicing
The lowest-numbered (highest priority) audio
tracks that are active and have their voice assign-
ment set to
DYN (Dynamically Allocated Voicing)
are the tracks that play back. (The total number of
tracks that play back depends on the maximum
number of voiced audio tracks allowed by your
system.)
Tracks that are higher-numbered (lower priority)
than these tracks do not play back and you cannot
record to them. Their
Dynamically Allocated Voic-
ing
button are blue to indicate they are unavailable
for playback or recording.
When working with more than the maximum num-
ber of voiced audio tracks allowed by your system,
you can only play back audio from higher-num-
bered (lower priority) tracks by changing the track
priority by doing any of the following:
• Make a lower-numbered track inactive (click the
Track Name and select Track > Make Inactive).
• Set the voice assignment in a lower-numbered
track to
Off (click the Voice selector and select
Off).
• Drag the
Track Name button of the higher-num-
bered track to the left (Mix window) or upwards
(in the Edit window or Track List) until it is in
the range of the maximum number of voiced au-
dio tracks allowed by your system. The previ-
ously last voiced audio track is moved out of
range and its voice assignment is changed to
Off.
When the priority of the higher-numbered track is
changed, its voice assignment is automatically
changed from
Off to DYN.
Automatic Assignment of Ascending
Voices
(Pro Tools|HD Systems Only)
You can automatically assign all tracks or all se-
lected tracks to successive voices. For example,
you may want to select eight audio tracks and reas-
sign them to voices 9–16.
To assign all audio tracks to successive voices:
 While pressing Command+Option (Mac) or
Control+Alt (Windows), select the starting
voice number from the Voice selector for the
track at the far left of the Mix window, or at the
top of the Edit window.
The voice is assigned to the first track, with succes-
sive voices assigned to tracks (with the same for-
mat) of lower priority.
Tracks do not play back when they are inac-
tive or their voice assignment is set to Off.