Specifications

Chapter 25: Edit Modes and Tools 535
Chapter 25: Edit Modes and Tools
Pro Tools provides four Edit modes and various
Edit tools to help you successfully edit material.
Edit Modes
Pro Tools has four Edit modes: Shuffle, Spot, Slip,
and Grid. Grid mode provides two modes of oper-
ation, Relative and Absolute, explained below.
The Edit mode is selected by clicking the corre-
sponding button in the upper left of the Edit win-
dow.
The Edit mode affects the movement and place-
ment of audio and MIDI clips (and MIDI notes),
how commands like Copy and Paste function, and
also how the various Edit tools (Trim, Selector,
Grabber, and Pencil tools) work.
Shuffle Mode
In Shuffle mode, you can move, trim, delete, cut,
or paste clips freely within a track or to other
tracks, but their movement is constrained by other
clips. That is, if you place several clips in a track,
they automatically snap to each other. You can
then “shuffle” their order, but you cannot separate
them from each other and you cannot make them
overlap as in Slip mode. However, if there is si-
lence between existing clips, and the clips are shuf-
fled, the silence is maintained, and not removed.
In Shuffle mode, adding another clip to the begin-
ning of a track moves all subsequent clips to the
right (later in time) by the length of the added clip.
When using any of the Trim tools in Shuffle mode,
changing a clip’s start or end point automatically
moves any subsequent clips as necessary. The
placement and insertion of MIDI notes is not af-
fected by Shuffle mode.
Edit mode buttons
Use the Accent key ( ` ) to toggle through the
Edit modes.
Press F1 to enable Shuffle mode.