User`s guide

Chapter 9: Basic Audio Recording 91
5 Click Record in the Transport window.
When you are ready to begin recording,
click Play.
6 When you have finished recording, click
Stop in the Transport window.
The audio for the new take is written to
disk, permanently overwriting the original.
The new material replaces the original ma-
terial within the existing region.
Appending New Material to the End of
a Track
You can also append new material to the
end of a track. To do this, locate to the end
of the track with the Go to End button in
the Transport window. From there, simply
begin recording and Pro Tools will add the
new material to the end of the track. If us-
ing Destructive Record mode, the new
audio is appended to the audio file and re-
gion from the first take. In Nondestructive
Record mode, a new file and region are cre-
ated.
Recording into a New Playlist
Instead of recording over existing audio re-
gions, there is another way to non-destruc-
tively record new takes into the same track.
Do this by creating a new playlist for the
track, then record just as before.
Tracks can have multiple edit playlists,
each of which stores a list of regions strung
together in a particular order.
To record into a new playlist for a track:
1 From the track’s Playlist Selector pop-up,
choose New. Enter a name for the new
playlist and click OK.
When a new playlist is created, its name re-
places the track name. With this playlist ac-
tive, names for new audio files and regions
are based on its name.
2 Make sure the track is still record-en-
abled.
3 In the Transport window, click Return to
Zero.
4 Click Record in the Transport window.
When you are ready to begin recording,
click Play.
5 When you have finished recording, click
Stop in the Transport window.
An audio file for the new take is written to
disk and appears as an audio region in the
track’s playlist. The new audio region also
appears in the Audio Regions List.
6 To audition the new take, click Play in
the Transport window.
7 To go back to a previous playlist to com-
pare it to the new take, select the playlist
from the track’s Playlist Selector.
Selecting a playlist recalls its regions as
they previously appeared in the track. At
any time, all regions from all playlists are
available in the Regions List, and can be
mixed and matched between playlists and
tracks.
For more information on playlists and
playlist editing, see “Playlists” on page 141.
Playlist Selector