User`s guide

Chapter 21: Automation 305
Editing and Track Display Formats
Audio and MIDI tracks each have a Track
Display Format that acts as the main for-
mat for purposes of editing. When the
main format is displayed, any edits per-
formed on the track apply to all data in the
track.
The main display formats are:
• Audio Tracks: Waveform and Blocks
• MIDI Tracks: Regions, Blocks, and Notes
For example, when an audio track is set to
Waveform or Blocks, cutting, copying and
pasting affects the audio data and all types
of automation data on that track. If the
track is set to show Pan automation, only
the Pan data is affected.
When a selection includes multiple tracks,
if any of those tracks is in its main display
format, all data on all selected tracks is af-
fected.
To edit all automation types on an Auxil-
iary Input or Master Fader track, do one of
the following:
◆ Make an edit selection that includes at
least one audio or MIDI track that is dis-
played in its main format.
◆ Press Control while cutting or copying
the automation data.
Tips for Cutting, Copying and Pasting
◆ On audio tracks, when you are in wave-
form view and cut or copy a section of the
waveform, any automation data associated
with the waveform is also cut or copied.
◆ On audio tracks, when you are in wave-
form view and cut audio data from a track
also containing automation data, break-
points are automatically created at the
boundaries of the remaining automation
data.
◆ On audio tracks, pasting waveform data
also pastes any associated automation data.
◆ On Auxiliary Input or Master Fader
tracks, only the displayed automation data
is cut or copied. To cut or copy all automa-
tion data on these types of tracks, press
Control while cutting or copying.
◆ In tracks where an automation playlist
contains no data (when there is only a sin-
gle breakpoint at the very beginning of the
track), if you cut data, no new breakpoints
are created.
◆ In cases where regions overlap (such as
when moving regions in Slip mode) and an
overlapping region is removed, any over-
lapped automation breakpoints are lost.
◆ If cut or copied data contains a type of
automation not currently on the target
track, Pro Tools prompts you before allow-
ing you to paste the data.
◆ Cut or copied automation data for Plug-
Ins or Sends that do not exist on the target
track is ignored when pasted.