Specifications

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Active and Inactive Paths
Pro Tools paths can be Active (on) or Inactive
(off, or unavailable). You can manually switch
paths between Active or Inactive on a track-by-
track or session-wide basis. In addition,
Pro Tools sets paths to Inactive automatically
when I/O is unavailable.
Track Path Assignments Track input, output,
and bus path assignments can be switched to In-
active using the corresponding selector on the
track. This leaves track playlists intact, while dis-
connecting that particular track from the output
or bus path. Use this to remove a track from a
signal path.
Session-Wide Path Assignments Paths can be
globally activated or deactivated in the
I/O Setup window. Use this to turn off a signal
path on any and all tracks currently assigned to
it. Pro Tools also sets unavailable paths to inac-
tive. Paths can be unavailable when hardware or
other system resources are unavailable, such as
when opening a session saved on a different sys-
tem.
Track Path Assignments
(Mix and Edit Windows)
To toggle a track path assignment to be Active or
Inactive:
■ In the Mix or Edit window, Control-Start-click
(Windows) or Command-Control-click (Macin-
tosh) the track’s Input, Output, Insert, or Send
Selector.
Inactive track path assignments are listed in ital-
ics and are unhighlighted.
Toggling All or All Selected
The Alt (Windows) and Option (Macintosh)
modifiers apply the path toggle to all tracks. The
Alt+Shift (Windows) and Option+Shift (Macin-
tosh) modifiers apply the path toggle to all se-
lected tracks. However, Pro Tools will only ap-
ply the change to identical path assignments, if
any, in the current track or tracks. Toggling mul-
tiple tracks only affects tracks that have the
same path assignment as the one you are explic-
itly toggling.
Toggling Multiple Paths
If a track has only one main output assignment,
you can Control-start-click (Windows) or Com-
mand-Control-click (Macintosh) the track’s
Output Selector to toggle the main output to in-
active. When there are multiple assignments,
the track selector will be displayed for you to
specify the input, output, insert, or bus path.
If a Send (A–E) has multiple output assignments
and one of those is toggled, then all of the out-
put assignments for that Send (A–E) will be tog-
gled.