User`s guide

Chapter 13: Editing Basics 145
Finding Regions
Use the Find command to display all re-
gions in a list whose names contain a par-
ticular word or phrase.
To find and display regions that match a word
or phrase:
1 Choose Find from the pop-up menu in
the Audio or MIDI Regions List.
2 Type the name, or any portion of the
name, for the regions you want to find,
then click OK.
Pro Tools displays all regions whose names
contain the name that was specified.
Figure 9 shows regions found when search-
ing on the word “loop.” When displaying
regions with the Find command, a small di-
amond appears at the top of the Audio and
MIDI Regions List.
To return the Regions List to displaying all
regions:
■ Choose Display All from the Regions List
pop-up menu.
Edit Modes
Pro Tools has four Edit modes: Shuffle,
Spot, Slip, and Grid. The Edit mode is se-
lected by clicking the desired button in the
upper left of the Edit window.
✽ You can also use F1 (Shuffle), F2 (Slip), F3
(Spot), and F4 (Grid) to set the Edit mode.
The Edit mode affects the movement and
placement of audio and MIDI regions (and
individual MIDI notes), how commands
like Copy and Paste function, and also how
the various edit tools (Trimmer, Selector,
Grabber, and Pencil) work.
Shuffle
In Shuffle mode, you can move regions
freely within a track or to other tracks, but
their movement is constrained by other re-
gions. That is, if you place several regions
in a track, they automatically snap to each
other. You can then “shuffle” their order,
but you cannot separate them from each
other and you cannot make them overlap
as in Slip mode. In Shuffle mode, adding
another region to the beginning of a track
moves all subsequent regions to the right
by the length of the region added.
When using the Trimmer in Shuffle mode,
changing a region’s start or end point auto-
matically moves the adjacent regions as
necessary. The placement and insertion of
MIDI notes is not affected by Shuffle mode.
Figure 9. Regions located with Find command
Edit mode buttons