Specifications

Chapter 26: Making Selections 565
Chapter 26: Making Selections
Pro Tools provides many tools for selecting
material in the Edit window.
Linking or Unlinking Timeline
and Edit Selections
Pro Tools lets you link or unlink the Timeline and
Edit selections.
When the Timeline and Edit selections are linked,
selecting in a track’s playlist (making an Edit se-
lection) also defines the play and record range (the
Timeline selection).
Unlinking Timeline and Edit selections lets you
make a selection within a track for editing pur-
poses that is distinct from the selection in the
Timeline (which determines the playback and re-
cording range).
To link or unlink the Timeline and Edit selections,
do one of the following:
 Select or deselect Options > Link Timeline and
Edit Selection
.
 In the Edit window, a MIDI Editor window, or
the Score Editor window, click the Link Time-
line and Edit Selection button so it becomes
highlighted (selected) or un-highlighted (not se-
lected). Enabling or disabling the Link Timeline
and Edit Selection button in any editor window
affects all editor windows.
If you are working on a film or video scene, you
may want to unlink the Timeline and Edit selec-
tions to find or audition material that is at a differ-
ent location than the current Timeline selection.
Edit selections can be played (choose
Edit > Selec-
tion > Play Edit
) without disrupting the current
Timeline selection. Once you find the material,
you can then go back to the Timeline selection and
place it within the context of the scene.
The following figure illustrates another reason
why you might want to unlink the Timeline and
Edit selections. In this example, the Timeline se-
lection sets a range to be looped on playback, while
a MIDI clip (residing within the loop) is selected
for editing purposes.
During playback, the Edit selection can be nudged,
quantized, or transposed while the loop plays back
completely independent and uninterrupted.
Link Timeline and Edit Selection button enabled in the
Edit window
Press Shift+Forward Slash (/) to toggle Link
Timeline and Edit Selection on and off.