Specifications

Digidesign Plug-Ins Guide30
To process audio with an AudioSuite plug-in:
1 Select the desired regions in the target track(s)
and/or in the Audio Regions List. Shift-click to
select multiple regions. Only regions that are se-
lected will be processed.
2 Choose the desired AudioSuite plug-in from
the AudioSuite menu.
3 Click the Preview button to begin playback of
the selected material.
4 Adjust the plug-in parameters to achieve the
effect that you want. These settings will deter-
mine how the file is processed and what effect
the processing will have on the original regions.
Follow these guidelines:
◆ To process the selected region only in the
track in which it appears, select Playlist from the
Selection Reference pop-up. Alternatively, if you
want to process the selected region in the Audio
Regions list only, choose Region List from this
pop-up.
◆ If you want to process and update every oc-
currence of the selected region throughout your
session, enable the Use In Playlist button (and
also select Region List from the Selection Refer-
ence pop-up). Alternatively, if you do not want
to update every occurrence of the selected re-
gion, deselect the Use In Playlist button.
◆ To configure the plug-in for destructive pro-
cessing, select Overwrite Files from the File
Mode pop-up menu. This will overwrite and
permanently modify the original source audio
files.
◆ Alternatively, to configure the plug-in for
non-destructive processing, select Create Indi-
vidual Files from the File Mode pop-up menu.
This will create new audio files that have been
processed with the AudioSuite Plug-in and leave
the original source audio files untouched.
◆ If you have selected multiple regions for pro-
cessing and want to create a new file that con-
nects and consolidates all of these regions
together, select Create Continuous File from the
File Mode pop-up menu.
5 Finally, when you are ready, click the Process
button.
The selected audio is processed according to the
settings you have specified. Pro Tools appends
an acronym to the region’s name indicating the
AudioSuite process that has been applied. The
new audio files then appear in your session.
Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins in
Stereo
Some AudioSuite plug-ins such as D-Verb can be
used in either mono or stereo. If you plan to use
them in stereo, be aware of the following:
◆ To process a mono track and obtain a stereo
result, select the desired track or region plus an
empty track or region. Then set the plug-in to
Stereo mode and select the Sum Inputs button
(if present) to center the dry signal. When you
process the audio, the result will be two tracks or
regions that represent the right and left chan-
nels of the processed audio. You should then
pan these tracks hard right and hard left in your
mix.
◆ If you set a plug-in to Stereo mode, then select
an odd number of Pro Tools tracks for process-
ing (as opposed to an even number), the plug-in
will process the selected tracks in pairs, in stereo.
However, the last odd, unpaired track will be
processed as mono, using the left channel set-
tings of the stereo plug-in. If you want the last
track to be processed in stereo, you must select
an additional track to pair it with—an empty
one if necessary.