User`s guide

Chapter 6: Working with Tracks 55
Voice Selector
When you click a track’s
voice selector, a pop-up menu appears of-
fering a choice of voice numbers, which re-
fer to voice assignments.
On-screen track placement The left-most
track in the Mix window (or the topmost
track in the Edit window) has priority over
other tracks with the same voice assign-
ment.
It is possible to assign more than one track
to the same voice, but only one of the
tracks—the one with highest priority—will
play.
Choosing Options > Mute Frees Voice and
muting a track disables playback of that
track, and surrenders control of its voice to
the next highest priority track with the
same voice assignment.
Pro Tools features dynamic voice allocation,
so that when a hole opens up in a higher-
priority track, its voice is temporarily avail-
able, and the track with the next highest
priority “pops through” and begins to play.
When the original track returns, the track
that had popped through relinquishes the
voice to the higher priority track.
The following example demonstrates the
concept of dynamic voice allocation:
In the above illustration, the two visible
tracks are assigned to the same voice. There
is an open area in the top track where no
region appears. At this point, the voice is
free since it is not being used, and the next
highest priority track on that voice (the
bottom track) will pop through the open
area and play. In order for a lower priority
region to pop through, it must be placed so
that its beginning occurs after a higher pri-
ority track’s region has ended.
Automatic Assignment of
Ascending Voices
(TDM Systems Only)
You can automatically assign all tracks or
all selected tracks to successive voices. For
example, you may want to select eight
audio tracks and reassign them to voices
9–16.
To assign all audio tracks to successive
voices:
■ While pressing Command+Option (Mac-
intosh) or Control+Alt (Windows), click on
the Voice Selector for any track and choose
the starting voice number.
Audio Track Voice selector
The “Lead Guitar” region will pop through