User Manual

Pro Tools Reference Guide476
3 Ensure that Normal Record mode is selected
(see “Record Modes” on page 431).
4 Click Record in the Transport to arm Pro Tools
for recording (Record Ready mode). The Track
Record Enabled indicator lights red.
5 Do one of the following:
• Click Play to start recording. If using
Countoff, Pro Tools counts off the specified
number of measures and then begins re-
cording.
– or –
• If Wait for Note is enabled, do not click the
Play button; recording will begin automat-
ically as soon as you start playing (when a
MIDI event is received).
6 Play your MIDI controller.
7 When you are finished playing, click Stop in
the Transport to stop recording.
For each record-enabled track, a new MIDI re-
gion is created and appears both in the playlist
and in the Region List.
MIDI Regions Are Created on
Barlines
When recording MIDI, or when manually enter-
ing MIDI notes, the beginning and ending of
MIDI regions are created on bar boundaries. This
greatly facilitates arranging MIDI regions in a
musically meaningful way, in whole bar
lengths.
The beginning of a recorded MIDI region always
starts on the barline immediately before the first
MIDI note (Note On) of the region. Likewise, the
MIDI region ends on the barline immediately
following the last note (Note Off) of the region.
Recording Over Existing MIDI
Regions
Unlike audio regions, existing MIDI regions are
never overwritten even though MIDI data
within regions can be overwritten. When MIDI
Merge mode is disabled and recording MIDI on a
track with existing regions, newly recorded
MIDI data overwrites existing MIDI data within
existing regions, but the existing region bound-
aries remain. New MIDI regions are only created
to fill the gaps between existing MIDI region
boundaries. Typically, new MIDI regions are al-
ways created on barlines. However, if existing
region boundaries are not on barlines, newly
created regions are bound by the existing re-
gions.
To record enable additional MIDI and In-
strument tracks, Shift-click their Record En-
able buttons.
Record button in Record Ready mode
Press F12 to start recording immediately.
You can also press Command+Spacebar
(Mac) or Control+Spacebar (Windows) to
start recording. For more information, see
“Recording Shortcuts” on page 452.
It is possible to have the Note On of a MIDI
note be in one MIDI region, and its Note Off
be in a subsequent MIDI region. It is also
possible to have the region end before the
Note Off, resulting in notes that extend
beyond the region boundary. However, Note
Ons can never precede the beginning of a
region.