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Pro Tools Reference Guide258
Temporarily Isolating Control of an
Item from Group Operation
You can temporarily isolate control of a group
item from group operation by Right-clicking on
the item.
The following items can be isolated from group
operation:
• Pan slider (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit 2 only)
• Channel Record Enable (Pro Tools HD and
Pro Tools with Complete Production Tool-
kit 2 only)
• Channel TrackInput (Pro Tools HD only)
• Send Pan slider
• Channel Volume fader
• Channel Pan slider
• Channel Mute button
• Channel Solo button
• Channel Record Enable button
• Channel TrackInput button
• Send fader
• Send Pan slider
Grouped Control Offsets
When the following controls are grouped with
offsets and moved to their extremes, relative off-
sets are preserved when the controls are moved
back from their extremes:
•Main Volume
• Main Pan (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with
Complete Production Toolkit 2 only)
•Send Level
•Send Pan
For example, when a grouped Volume fader is
moved to its maximum value, any other faders
in that group that had higher values will re-
member their relative offset whenever the first
fader is pulled down again.
In Automation views, this “overflow” is indi-
cated on the automation playlist by blue auto-
mation breakpoints at the extremes of the auto-
mation playlist.
Setting Group Pan Controls to
Ignore Offsets
By default, offsets are preserved for grouped pan
controls. In some workflows, it is desirable to
have grouped pan controls match absolute val-
ues rather than preserve offsets.
To set grouped pan controls to ignore offsets:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click the Mix-
ing tab.
2 Select the Use Absolute Pan Linking option.
When this option is enabled, grouped pan con-
trols will snap to the absolute value of the pan
control that is being adjusted.
You can also temporarily suspend group
behavior for a track by Control-clicking
(Mac) or Start-clicking (Windows) a group
function.