Specifications

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Display of Inactive Items
When items are inactive, their names appear in
italics, and their background becomes dark gray.
When a track is inactive, the entire channel strip is
grayed out.
Automatic and Manual Inactive Mode
Active and Inactive modes are powerful options
for session transfer and system resource manage-
ment. Pro Tools provides automatic and manual
Inactive mode switching. You can manually make
items inactive (or active) to selectively manage
system resources while editing and mixing.
Automatically Inactive Items
When opening a session, it is possible that not all
signal paths, plug-ins, or audio interfaces used in
the session will be available as defined on the cur-
rent system. When opening a session, sufficient
voices may also be unavailable if the session was
created on a different Pro Tools system type (for
example, opening a session created on a
Pro Tools|HD system on a Pro Tools system with
an Mbox Pro audio interface).
Whenever this occurs, the session will open as it
was last saved. All items that are unavailable, or
cannot be loaded due to insufficient resources, are
made inactive.
Manual Inactive Switching
You can manually apply Active or Inactive modes
to manage system resources. By making an item
inactive, its associated resources are made avail-
able elsewhere in the session.
Active and inactive plug-ins, sends, and tracks
Active plug-in Inactive plug-in
Inactive
track