Specifications
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•To make a non-contiguous selection, Con-
trol-click (Windows) or Command-click
(Macintosh) a track name in the Track col-
umn to extend the selection to include al-
ready-selected tracks without including
tracks in-between.
3 To save recorded audio files to an existing
folder (without creating another session folder),
select Customize Allocation Options, then click
the Change button and choose the folder. To
create subfolders in this folder, select “Create
Subfolders for audio, video, and fade files.”
4 To automatically distribute any newly created
tracks among the drives connected to your sys-
tem, select “Use Round Robin Allocation for
New Tracks.”
If you are using Round Robin Allocation and
want audio to be recorded to your system’s start-
up drive, do the following:
•Open the Workspace browser and set the
Volume Designator for your system volume
to R (Record and Playback). See “Work-
space Volume Designation” on page 147.
5 When you are finished, click OK.
Saving Disk Allocation Settings
To save Disk Allocation settings for use with fu-
ture sessions, save the session as a template. For
details, see “Creating Custom Session Tem-
plates” on page 51.
Disk Allocation and Cross-Platform
Sessions
Pro Tools for Windows supports recording and
playback of audio from multiple hard drives, but
to ensure cross-platform operation, it also re-
quires that Macintosh Pro Tools sessions and
their associated audio files be on Macintosh-for-
matted (HFS or HFS+) drives.
Similarly, Windows sessions and their associ-
ated audio files must reside on Windows-for-
matted (FAT32 or NTFS) drives. If you want to
share sessions between Windows and Macin-
tosh platforms, consider these restrictions when
allocating tracks to drives.
Round Robin Allocation is not supported
with partitioned hard drives.
If you want to exclude individual, valid,
mounted volumes from Round Robin Allo-
cation passes, open the Workspace browser
and make the volume safe, by designating it
as P (Playback only) or T (Transfer).