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Pro Tools Reference Guide232
Freeing up Voices on a Track
You can also adjust the relative priority of tracks
by freeing up the voices of individual tracks,
making them available to other tracks in the ses-
sion.
To free up the voice of a track, do one of the
following:
Click the Voice selector of the track and set it
to Off. See “Setting Voice Assignment” on
page 232.
Deactivate the track by Control-Start-clicking
(Windows) or Command-Control-clicking
(Mac) its track type icon in the Mix window.
Make sure the track does not have an Output
Path or Send assignment.
With Pro Tools HD, you can temporarily free a
track’s voice during playback by muting it (see
“Mute Frees Assigned Voice” on page 240).
Setting Voice Assignment
A track’s voice assignment can be turned off or
set to be dynamically allocated, and with
Pro Tools HD, can also be explicitly assigned to a
specific voice number.
On all Pro Tools systems, you can use Dynami-
cally Allocated Voicing to automatically take
care of voice management in the background,
assigning voices not in use by other tracks.
With Pro Tools HD, tracks assigned to a specific
voice number take priority over dynamically al-
located tracks and support voice borrowing (see
“Voice Borrowing” on page 234). To ensure that
a track is heard, or that it is available for Quick-
Punch, TrackPunch, or DestructivePunch re-
cording, assign an explicit voice to that track.
For stereo and multichannel tracks, voices ap-
pear in pairs and multichannel groups. Voices
already explicitly assigned to another track ap-
pear in bold in the Voice selector’s pop-up
menu.
Pro Tools supports Dynamically Allocated
Voicing only; it does not support explicit voice
assignments.
With Pro Tools HD, QuickPunch, Track-
Punch, and DestructivePunch require addi-
tional voices. For more information, see
Chapter 24, “Punch Recording Modes.”
With Pro Tools HD, the initial insert of an
RTAS plug-in uses additional voices in cer-
tain situations. See “Voice Usage and Total
Latency for RTAS Plug-Ins” on page 971.