Specifications
Pro Tools Reference Guide440
To exit Manual Tempo mode and enable the Tempo
track:
Click the Tempo Ruler Enable (Conductor) but-
ton in the Transport window so it becomes high-
lighted.
To set the Manual Tempo by tapping:
1 Ensure that the MIDI controls are shown in the
Transport window (select
View > Transport >
MIDI Controls
).
2 In the Transport window, click the Tempo Ruler
Enable (Conductor) button so it becomes un-
highlighted. Pro Tools switches to Manual
Tempo mode. In this mode, any tempo events in
the Tempo track are ignored.
3 Do one of the following:
• Click in the Tempo field so it becomes high-
lighted and tap the “T” key on your computer
keyboard repeatedly at the new tempo.
• If the
Use MIDI to Tap Tempo option is enabled
in the MIDI Preferences, click in the Tempo
field so it becomes highlighted and tap in the
tempo by playing a note repeatedly at the new
tempo on your MIDI keyboard controller.
To compute the new tempo, Pro Tools averages
the last eight (or fewer) taps to determine the cor-
rect tempo. The computed BPM value appears in
the Transport window’s Tempo field.
To lock in the new tempo:
Take Pro Tools out of Manual Tempo mode by
clicking the Tempo Ruler Enable (Conductor)
button, then set the default tempo for the Song
Start Marker to the new tempo.
Record Modes
For recording audio, Pro Tools provides the fol-
lowing Record modes:
• Normal (Nondestructive)
• Destructive
• Loop
• QuickPunch
• TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit only)
• DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools
with Complete Production
Toolkit only)
To select the Record mode, do one of the
following:
Select the Record mode in the Options menu. If
no Record mode is selected, Pro Tools is in Nor-
mal (Nondestructive) Record mode.
Right-click the Record button in the Transport
and select the Record mode from the pop-up
menu.
The Record button changes to indicate the selected
Record mode as follows:
• Blank for Normal (Nondestructive)
• “D” for Destructive
• Loop symbol for Loop Record
• “P” for QuickPunch
• “T” for TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD only)
• “DP” for DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD only)
You can also cycle through the Pro Tools re-
cord modes with the Transport stopped, by
Start-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking
(Mac) the Record button.