Specifications

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5 Do one of the following:
• In the Mix window, adjust the track’s volume
and pan faders. These settings are for monitoring
purposes only and do not affect the recorded ma-
terial.
• In the Output window for the track, adjust the
track’s Volume fader and Pan sliders. These set-
tings are for monitoring purposes only and do
not affect the recorded material. (See “Output
Windows for Tracks and Sends” on page 959.)
6 Choose Window > Transport to display the
Transport window. Click Return to Zero to go to
the beginning of the session.
7 Click Record in the Transport window to arm
Pro Tools for recording. The Record button
flashes red to indicate that Pro Tools is ready to
record.
8 Ensure that Normal Record mode is selected
(see “Record Modes” on page 440).
9 When you are ready to start recording, click
Play or press the Spacebar.
If using Countoff, Pro Tools counts off the speci-
fied number of measures and then begins record-
ing. See “Recording with a Click” on page 435.
10 Record your performance.
11 Click Stop in the Transport window or press the
Spacebar when you are finished recording.
The newly recorded audio is written to disk and ap-
pears as an audio clip both in the track’s playlist
and in the Clip List.
To play back the audio track:
1 Click the Record Enable button for the audio
track so that it is no longer record-enabled.
Track volume faders now function as playback
level controls.
2 To have playback start from the beginning of
the session, click Return to Zero in the Trans-
port.
3 To start playback, click Play in the Transport or
press the Spacebar.
Transport window
Fast Forward
Record
Go to End
Play
Stop
Rewind
Return to Zero
Online
If a record-enabled track is in Auto Input
Monitor mode, you will hear “through” the
input while the Transport is stopped. The
track automatically switches to playback
when you press play, then back to Input
mode when you either stop, or punch into re-
cord. For more information, see “Auto Input
Monitoring” on page 452.