Specifications

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3 Ensure that Normal Record mode is selected
(see “Record Modes” on page 440).
4 Click Record in the Transport to arm Pro Tools
for recording (Record Ready mode). The Track
Record Enabled indicator lights red.
5 Do one of the following:
• Click Play to start recording. If using Countoff,
Pro Tools counts off the specified number of
measures and then begins recording.
• If Wait for Note is enabled, do not click the Play
button; recording will begin automatically as
soon as you start playing (when a MIDI event is
received).
6 Play your MIDI controller.
7 When you are finished playing, click Stop in the
Transport to stop recording.
For each record-enabled track, a new MIDI clip is
created and appears both in the playlist and in the
Clip List.
MIDI Clips Are Created on
Barlines
When recording MIDI, or when manually entering
MIDI notes, the beginning and ending of MIDI
clips are created on bar boundaries. This greatly fa-
cilitates arranging MIDI clips in a musically mean-
ingful way, in whole bar lengths.
The beginning of a recorded MIDI clip always
starts on the barline immediately before the first
MIDI note (Note On) of the clip. Likewise, the
MIDI clip ends on the barline immediately follow-
ing the last note (Note Off) of the clip.
Recording Over Existing MIDI
Clips
Unlike audio clips, existing MIDI clips are never
overwritten even though MIDI data within clips
can be overwritten. When MIDI Merge mode is
disabled and recording MIDI on a track with exist-
ing clips, newly recorded MIDI data overwrites
existing MIDI data within existing clips, but the
existing clip boundaries remain. New MIDI clips
are only created to fill the gaps between existing
MIDI clip boundaries. Typically, new MIDI clips
are always created on barlines. However, if exist-
ing clip boundaries are not on barlines, newly cre-
ated clips are bound by the existing clips.
To record enable additional MIDI and
Instrument tracks, Shift-click their Record
Enable buttons.
Record button in Record Ready mode
Press F12 to start recording immediately.
You can also press Command+Spacebar
(Mac) or Control+Spacebar (Windows) to
start recording. For more information, see
“Recording Shortcuts” on page 460.
It is possible to have the Note On of a MIDI
note be in one MIDI clip, and its Note Off be
in a subsequent MIDI clip. It is also possible
to have the clip end before the Note Off,
resulting in notes that extend beyond the clip
boundary. However, Note Ons can never pre-
cede the beginning of a clip.