Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide560
To scrub a single audio track:
1 Select the Scrubber tool.
2 Drag within the track: left for reverse or right
for forward.
The distance and speed with which you drag (with
either the mouse, or the scrub wheel on a control
surface) determine the length and speed of the
scrubbed audio. Audio from the scrubbed track is
routed to its output, along with any effects as-
signed to the track.
The resolution for the Scrubber is dependent on the
zoom factor for the scrubbed track.
To scrub multiple audio tracks, do one of the
following:
 With the Scrubber selected, drag between two
adjacent tracks.
 Scrub within a selection that contains multiple
tracks.
When scrubbing multiple tracks, only the first two
tracks are heard.
Scrub/Shuttle Mode
When scrubbing normally, you can scrub at nor-
mal playback speeds or slower. Scrub/Shuttle
mode, however, lets you scrub at several times nor-
mal speed, which is helpful in playing through
large ranges and locating material.
To scrub in Shuttle mode (at several times normal
speed):
1 Select the Scrubber tool.
2 While pressing Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac),
drag within the track—left for reverse, right for
forward. The Fast Forward and Rewind buttons
in the Transport window engage.
The distance and speed dragged determine the
speed for the scrubbed audio.
Shuttle Lock Mode
Shuttle Lock mode lets you use the numeric key-
pad to shuttle up to two tracks forward or back-
wards at specific speeds: 5 is normal speed, num-
bers from 6 up to 9 provide increasingly faster fast-
forward speeds, and numbers from 4 down to 1
provide progressively faster rewind speeds (4 is
the slowest rewind Shuttle Lock speed, 1 is the
fastest). If multiple tracks are selected, only the
first two tracks are shuttled.
Scrubbing an audio track with the Scrubber
You can temporarily switch the Selector tool
to the Scrubber tool by Start-clicking (Win-
dows) or Control-clicking (Mac). For finer
resolution, Control-Start-click (Windows) or
Command-Control-click (Mac).
Scrubbing between two audio tracks
The maximum number of channels scrubbed
in Pro Tools is eight, which lets you scrub a
7.1 track, two stereo tracks (four channels),
but not two 5.1 surround tracks (12 chan-
nels).