Specifications

Chapter 16: Playing and Selecting Track Material 245
3 With the Selector, click in the track where you
want playback to begin. To shuttle on two
tracks, Shift-click in a second track.
4 Press and hold any of the following keys (or
key combinations) on the numeric keypad to
trigger playback.
5 Press a different key to switch the playback di-
rection or speed. Release to stop.
Linking or Unlinking Edit and
Timeline Selections
Pro Tools lets you link or unlink the Edit and
Timeline selections.
By default, the Edit and Timeline selections are
linked. In this mode, selecting in a track’s play-
list (an Edit selection) also defines the play and
record range (the Timeline selection).
Unlinking Edit and Timeline 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
recording range).
To unlink the Edit and Timeline selections:
■ Deselect Operations > Link Edit and Timeline
Selection.
– or –
■ In the upper left of the Edit window, click the
Link Selection button so it becomes unhigh-
lighted.
If you are working with a film or video scene,
you may want to unlink the Edit and Timeline
selections to find or audition material that is at
a different location than the current Timeline
selection. Edit selections can be played (choose
Operations > Play Edit Selection) without dis-
rupting 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.
Figure 12 illustrates another reason you’d want
to unlink the Edit and Timeline selections. In
this example, the Timeline selection sets a range
to be looped on playback, while a MIDI region
(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.
Shuttle Speed Rewind Key Forward Key
1 X Speed 4 6
4 X Speed 7 9
1/4 X Speed 1 3
1/2 X Speed 4+5 5+6
2 X Speed 7+8 8+9
Link Selection disabled and enabled
Figure 12. Edit and Timeline selections unlinked