User`s guide

Chapter 8: Record Setup 75
Latch Record Mode
When the option for Latch Record Enable
Buttons is selected (in the Operations Pref-
erences), you can record enable (latch) ad-
ditional audio tracks by clicking their
Record buttons. Previously record-enabled
tracks remain record-enabled.
When Latch Record Enable Buttons is dese-
lected, record-enabling a subsequent audio
track takes the previously record-enabled
track out of record-enabled mode.
✽ When the option for Latch Record Enable
Buttons is deselected, you can still Shift-click
the Record buttons on multiple audio tracks to
record enable them.
Record Safe Mode
When tracks are in Record Safe mode, it is
not possible to record enable them, and
therefore not possible to record to them.
Use Record Safe mode to protect important
track recordings.
To put an audio or MIDI track in Record Safe
mode:
■ Command-click (Macintosh) or Control-
click (Windows) the track’s Record button.
Command-click (Macintosh) or Control-
click (Windows) again to take the track out
of Record Safe mode.
To put all tracks in Record Safe mode:
■ Command-Option-click (Macintosh) or
Control-Alt-click (Windows) the Record
button on any track.
Command-Option-click (Macintosh) or
Control-Alt-click (Windows) again to take
all tracks out of Record Safe mode.
To put all currently selected tracks into
Record Safe mode:
■ Command-Option-Shift-click (Mac-
intosh) or Control-Alt-Shift-click (Win-
dows) the Record button on any of the
selected tracks to toggle them in and out of
Record Safe mode.
Monitoring Modes
Pro Tools offers two modes of input moni-
toring, Auto Input Monitoring or Input Only
Monitoring (chosen from the Operations
menu), which determine how input signals
are monitored while recording audio.
Auto Input Monitoring
In this mode, when session playback is
stopped, Pro Tools monitors audio input.
When playback is started for a punch-in,
Pro Tools monitors existing track material
up until the punch point. While punched
in, the input signal is monitored. On
punch-out, monitoring switches back to
the existing track material. This is similar
to the auto-switching logic found on digi-
tal and analog multitrack tape machines.
▲ When using Auto Input Monitoring, the
switch back to monitoring track material on
punch-out is not instantaneous. To get instan-
taneous monitor switching on punch-out, use
QuickPunch (see “Using QuickPunch” on
page 113).