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Pro Tools Reference Guide190
Muting/Unmuting Regions
Choosing the Mute/Unmute Region com-
mand mutes playback of a selected region.
Choosing the command a second time un-
mutes the region. Regions that are muted
become dimmed to indicate their status.
To mute a region or regions:
1 With the Grabber, select the region or re-
gions you want to mute.
2 Choose Edit > Mute/Unmute Region. The
selected regions become dimmed, indicat-
ing they are muted.
To unmute a region, select it and choose
Edit > Mute/Unmute Region.
Edit Commands
Cut, Copy, Clear, and Paste
Use the Cut, Copy and Paste commands to
rearrange and edit track material. Edits can
operate on entire regions selected with the
Grabber, or on track ranges selected with
the Selector. Edits can also work across
multiple tracks (see “Editing across Multi-
ple Tracks” on page 193).
✽ For TDM systems, you can cut, copy, and
paste discontiguous regions selected with the
Object Grabber.
When cutting or copying track material,
the track’s Display Format determines the
type of data placed on the Clipboard.
When displaying waveforms for audio
tracks, or notes or regions for MIDI tracks,
selections include all underlying automa-
tion and controller data. Thus, cutting an
audio region also cuts any Volume, Pan,
Mute, Send, or Plug-In automation that is
also on the track. This saves you from hav-
ing to individually cut from each automa-
tion playlist on the track.
However, when selecting groups of MIDI
notes with the Grabber (by drawing a rect-
angle around them), only the note data is
placed on the Clipboard. When selecting a
time range of MIDI notes with the Selector,
all controller data in the track is selected
(similar to selecting with the Selector for
audio tracks in Waveform view).
When a track is displaying automation
data or controller data, only that data is
placed on the Clipboard. Also, whenever
you cut or copy automation data, bound-
ing breakpoints are created at each end of
the selected area, in order to preserve the
slope of the automation both inside and
outside the selection.
Muted audio region (middle)
Audio waveform data
Automation data (breakpoint-type data)