Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Authorization
- Session and Track Features
- Advanced Editing Features
- Advanced Automation Features
- AutoJoin with Latch Mode
- Touch/Latch Mode
- Trim Mode
- Composite Automation Playlist
- Copy Track Automation to Sends
- AutoMatch
- Prime Controls for Writing Automation in Latch Mode
- Glide Automation
- Trim Automation
- Write Automation to the Start, End, or All of a Track or Selection
- Write Automation to the Next Breakpoint or to the Punch Point
- Overwrite or Extend Mute Automation
- Snapshot Automation
- Preview Automation
- Capture Automation
- VCA Master Track Automation
- Surround Features
- Pro Tools Audio Connections for 5.1 Mixing
- Configuring Pro Tools for Multichannel Sessions
- Default I/O Selectors in I/O Setup
- 5.1 Track Layouts, Routing, and Metering
- Routing Audio for Surround Mixing
- Multichannel Audio Tracks
- Multichannel Signal Routing
- Paths in Surround Mixes
- Example Paths and Signal Routing for a Surround Mix
- Introduction to Pro Tools Surround Panning
- Output Windows
- Surround Panner Controls
- Panning Modes
- Divergence and Center Percentage
- LFE Faders in Multichannel Panners
- Pan Playlists
- Surround Scope Plug-In
- Video Features
- Included Plug-Ins
- Index
Chapter 6: Surround Features 79
Multichannel Auxiliary Inputs and
Master Faders
A multichannel Auxiliary Input or Master Fader
is used as a return for the multichannel bus.
Sends are useful when you need to create an ad-
ditional, independent mix simultaneously (per-
haps of a distinct format), requiring dedicated
fader, mute, solo, and automation controls.
You can assign Master Faders to main and sub-
paths. Main paths must match the format of the
Master Fader, and only one Master Fader can be
active and assigned to any single (active) main
or sub-path. A Master Fader cannot be assigned
to a sub-path if its associated main path is al-
ready assigned on another Master Fader.
Multichannel Instrument Tracks
Multichannel tracks can be used to monitor and
route multichannel instrument plug-ins or mul-
tichannel external MIDI instruments.
Mono, Multi-Mono and
Multichannel Plug-Ins
Plug-ins can be used in mono, multi-mono, or
multichannel formats.
For information about mono, stereo, and mono-
in/stereo-out plug-ins, see the Pro Tools Reference
Guide.
Multi-Mono Plug-Ins Are designed for use on ste-
reo or greater-than-stereo multichannel tracks.
Multi-mono plug-ins are useful, or required, in
the following situations:
• When a plug-in does not involve multichan-
nel correlated processing (for example, when
applying EQ to select sides of a multichannel
signal)
• When you need to adjust signals within the
multichannel track independently
• When a plug-in does not support multichan-
nel formats
When a multi-mono plug-in is first inserted on a
multichannel track, the plug-in controls are
linked. You can unlink them for independent
adjustment. See “Linking and Unlinking Con-
trols on Multi-Mono Plug-Ins” on page 80 for
more information.
Multi-mono plugs-ins can also be inserted on
stereo tracks, to apply unlinked plug-ins on the
left and right channels.
Multichannel Plug-Ins Are designed for use on
stereo and multichannel tracks that require cor-
related processing, including stereo and multi-
channel limiting, compression, and similar ef-
fects.