Specifications

What’s New in Pro Tools 9.026
4 A dialog appears asking whether you want to
delete existing paths. Do one of the following:
Click Yes to remove any unused paths and
add the imported paths to the current I/O
Setup configuration. Any I/O assignments
and automation data associated with the
unused paths are also deleted.
– or –
Click No to add the imported paths to the
current I/O Setup configuration.
If the import results in overlapping paths, the
new paths will appear in the I/O Setup as Inac-
tive.
Overlapping Paths
In Pro Tools 9.0, you can create overlapping out-
put paths–multiple paths that can share the
same physical output assignments. This can be
especially useful if you are working with multi-
ple monitoring configurations of different chan-
nel widths.
For example, you may want to switch monitor-
ing between discrete surround (such as 5.1) and
basic stereo, but without having to have two
completely different sets of monitors. To be able
to switch between the two, you can create a 5.1
output path that maps to output channels 1–6
(L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE) and also have a stereo out-
put path that maps to output channels 1 and 3
(L, R).
Note that overlapping paths must overlap com-
pletely. For example, you can have a 5.1 path
mapped to channels 1–6 and a stereo path
mapped to channels 1 and 3 because the stereo
path is “contained” by the 5.1 path. As another
example, you can have two separate stereo paths
assigned to channels 1–2, but you cannot have
one stereo path assigned to channels 1–2 and
the other assigned to 2–3 since they only par-
tially overlap.
You can also import I/O paths and path
names, as well as other session data, from a
different session by using the Import Session
Data command (File > Import > Session
Data). See the Pro Tools Reference Guide for
more information.
In Pro Tools 8.1 and higher, you cannot cre-
ate output sub-paths. Use overlapping out-
put paths as you used output sub-paths in
Pro Tools 8.0.4 or lower.
Overlapping output paths
With overlapping output paths of different
channel widths, if the widest path is made
inactive, all other overlapped output paths
will not pass audio from Pro Tools.
See “Path Order and Overlapping Output
Paths” on page 31 for information on over-
lapping path sub-path and behavior when
exchanging sessions between systems run-
ning different versions of Pro Tools.