Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide272
Temporarily Isolating Control of
an Item from Group Operation
You can temporarily isolate control of a group
item from group operation by Right-clicking on
the item.
The following items can be isolated from group
operation:
• Pan slider (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit only)
• Channel Record Enable (Pro Tools HD and
Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit
only)
• Channel TrackInput (Pro Tools HD only)
• Send Pan slider
• Channel Volume fader
• Channel Pan slider
• Channel Mute button
• Channel Solo button
• Channel Record Enable button
• Channel TrackInput button
• Send fader
• Send Pan slider
Grouped Control Offsets
When the following controls are grouped with off-
sets and moved to their extremes, relative offsets
are preserved when the controls are moved back
from their extremes:
• Main Volume
• Main Pan (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit only)
• Send Level
• Send Pan
For example, when a grouped Volume fader is
moved to its maximum value, any other faders in
that group that had higher values will remember
their relative offset whenever the first fader is
pulled down again.
In Automation views, this “overflow” is indicated
on the automation playlist by blue automation
breakpoints at the extremes of the automation
playlist.
Setting Group Pan Controls to
Ignore Offsets
By default, offsets are preserved for grouped pan
controls. In some workflows, it is desirable to have
grouped pan controls match absolute values rather
than preserve offsets.
To set grouped pan controls to ignore offsets:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click Mixing.
2 Select the Use Absolute Pan Linking option.
When this option is enabled, grouped pan controls
will snap to the absolute value of the pan control
that is being adjusted.
You can also temporarily suspend group
behavior for a track by Control-clicking
(Mac) or Start-clicking (Windows) a group
function.