Specifications

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Display of Inactive Items
When items are inactive, their names appear in
italics, and their background becomes dark grey.
When a track is inactive, the entire channel strip
is grayed out.
Automatic and Manual Inactive Mode
Active and Inactive modes are powerful options
for session transfer, and system resource man-
agement. Pro Tools provides automatic and
manual Inactive mode switching. You can man-
ually make items inactive (or active) to selec-
tively manage system resources while editing
and mixing.
Automatically Inactive Items
When opening a session, it is possible that not
all signal paths, plug-ins, or audio interfaces
used in the session will be available as defined
on the current system. When opening a session,
sufficient voices may also be unavailable if the
session was created on a different Pro Tools sys-
tem type (for example, creating a session on a
Pro Tools|24 MIX-series system, then opening it
in on a Pro Tools|HD-series system).
Whenever this occurs, the session will open as it
was last saved. All items that are unavailable, or
cannot be loaded due to insufficient resources,
are made inactive.
Manual Inactive Switching
You can manually apply Active or Inactive
modes to manage system resources. By making
an item inactive, its associated resources are
made available elsewhere in the session.
The following are basic instructions for manu-
ally making items inactive. Throughout the
Pro Tools Reference Guide, instructions are pro-
vided whenever an item can be made inactive.
To toggle an item active or inactive:
■ Control-Start-click (Windows) or Command-
Control-click (Macintosh) the item.
Active and inactive items and tracks
Active Inactive plug-in
Inactive track