Specifications

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To toggle the monitoring mode of audio tracks do
one of the following:
■ To toggle individual tracks, click the TrackIn-
put button for each track you want to toggle.
The TrackInput button lights green.
■ To toggle all tracks in the session, Alt-click
(Windows) or Option-click (Macintosh) a Track-
Input button. All the TrackInput buttons lights
green.
■ To toggle all selected tracks in the session, Alt-
Shift-click (Windows) or Option-Shift-click
(Macintosh) a selected track’s TrackInput but-
ton. All the TrackInput buttons for the selected
tracks lights green.
To change the monitoring mode of all record-
enabled tracks, do one of the following:
■ To change all record-enabled tracks to Auto
Input monitoring mode, Choose Operations >
Change Record Enabled Tracks to Auto Input.
■ To change all record-enabled tracks to Input
Only monitoring mode, Choose Operations >
Change Record Enabled Tracks to Input Only.
■ To toggle the monitoring mode of all record-
enabled tracks between Input Only monitoring
mode and Auto Input monitoring mode, use
Alt-K (Windows) or Option-K (Macintosh).
Monitoring Mode Preferences
For flexibility, TrackInput can be customized to
remain selected regardless of track record status,
or to automatically switch to Auto Input moni-
toring after a recording pass. This lets you opti-
mize monitoring for a typical dubbing workflow
(in which you might want tracks to remain in
Input Only mode until explicitly switched to
Auto Input monitoring) or a typical music track-
ing workflow (in which leaving a track in Input
Only monitoring mode after recording can re-
sult in accidental double-monitoring).
To customize TrackInput for recording:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences, and open the Op-
eration page.
2 Configure the setting for Disable “Input”
When Disarming Track (In “Stop”) setting as ap-
propriate.
• When enabled, taking an audio track out of
record enable (any mode) takes it out of In-
put Only mode, regardless of the global
monitor mode, and switches it to monitor
audio from disk only.
• When not enabled, audio tracks will re-
main in Input Only monitoring mode until
explicitly switched to Auto Input monitor-
ing.
Monitoring Latency
(Pro Tools LE)
Because Pro Tools LE uses the host processor in
your computer for all audio processing, play-
back and recording, there is a small amount of
audio delay, or latency, in the system. This la-
tency amount is related to the H/W Buffer Size—
the larger the buffer size the larger the latency.
TrackInput buttons in the Edit Window
TrackInput Off (Auto Input)
TrackInput On (Input Only)