Specifications

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Recording with a Click
If you intend to work with MIDI tracks in your
session, or if the audio you’re working with is
bar and beat-oriented, you can record your
tracks while listening to a click. This ensures that
recorded material, both MIDI and audio, will
align with the session’s bar and beat boundaries.
When your track material lines up with the
beats, you can take advantage of some useful ed-
iting functions in Pro Tools, such as quantizing
MIDI and audio regions, quantizing individual
MIDI notes, and copying and pasting measures
and song sections in Grid mode.
Pro Tools provides a built-in click generator, the
DigiRack Click plug-in. Click includes presets
with different click sounds, supports accented
and unaccented click sounds, and lets you ad-
just their volumes. Click is integrated directly
into Pro Tools, avoiding MIDI time delays. Refer
to the DigiRack Plug-Ins Guide for details.
Pro Tools also provides options and controls for
driving a click using MIDI. The following steps
are for configuring and enabling a click using
MIDI.
To configure click options:
1 Choose MIDI > Click Options.
– or –
Double-click the Click or Countoff button in the
Transport window.
2 In the Click/Countoff Options dialog, do one
of the following:
• If using the DigiRack Click plug-in, select
None in the Output pop-up menu. (For in-
formation on using the Click plug-in, see
the DigiRack Plug-Ins Guide.)
– or –
• If driving a click using MIDI, select the port
number (device) and channel that will play
the click from the Output pop-up menu.
3 For the accented and unaccented notes, spec-
ify the note, velocity, and duration with the nu-
meric keypad. If connected, you can also play
new note values on your MIDI controller key-
board.
Material that is recorded without listening
to a click can still be aligned to bar and beat
boundaries in Pro Tools with Beat Detective
(see Chapter 22, “Beat Detective”), or use
the Identify Beat command to determine the
tempo.
Click/Countoff Options dialog