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Chapter 8: Tracks 85
Chapter 8: Tracks
This chapter covers basic track management
tasks such as creating and deleting tracks, as-
signing voices and output channels, and group-
ing tracks.
Track Types
In a Pro Tools session, you can have several dif-
ferent types of tracks. These can include audio
tracks, Auxiliary Input tracks, MIDI tracks, Mas-
ter Fader tracks, and Avid or QuickTime Movie
tracks. AVoption|V10 Movie tracks are sup-
ported on Pro Tools 6.4 and higher.
AVoption|XL Movie tracks are supported on
Pro Tools 5.3.3 and higher (Windows), and
Pro Tools 6.1 and higher (Macintosh).
Audio Tracks, Auxiliary Input Tracks,
and Master Fader Tracks
Pro Tools provides mono, stereo, and greater-
than-stereo multichannel format audio tracks,
Auxiliary Inputs, and Master Faders.
Audio Tracks
Audio tracks contain arrangements of recorded
(or imported) audio files. Audio tracks can be
mono, stereo, or multichannel format (multi-
channel tracks are supported on Pro Tools HD-
series and MIX-series systems only).
Auxiliary Input Tracks
Auxiliary Input tracks can be used as effects
sends, destinations for submixes, as a bounce
destination, as inputs to monitor or process au-
dio (such as audio from MIDI sources), and for
many other audio routing tasks.
Master Fader Tracks
Master Fader tracks control the overall level of
the audio tracks that are routed to the session’s
main output paths. For example, you could
have 24 tracks in a session with channels 1–8
routed to Analog Output 1–2, channels 9–16 to
Analog Output 3–4, and channels 17–24 to An-
alog Output 5–6. You could then create three
master faders, one to control each of these out-
put pairs.
Master Fader tracks have additional uses (such as
controlling submix levels). For more informa-
tion, see “Master Faders” on page 406
QuickTime Movie track features are de-
scribed in Chapter 36, “Working with
QuickTime Movies.”