

Make a selection on a comp lane track, and this button will become active.

This is the elevate or, to give it its official title, Copy Selection on the Main Playlist option, and is at the core of the new comping feature. The Edit windows ShowHide list displays the Playlists on a track inset below the track itself, so you can show or hide the complete set by selecting the track, but also show and hide individual comp lanes Regions comped to the master Playlist retain the colour of their source comp lane so you can see where they came from.

You can see which are comp lanes, as they are inset on the Edit window.) As before, all Playlists on a track share the same voice, so you can only listen to one comp lane at a time. When you select this view, Pro Tools will display the most recent Playlist on the main track, and the previous takes on subtracks, or as Digidesign call them, comp lanes. You will find a new option in the track display dropdown menu called Playlist Once you have made a selection within a Region on a comp lane (left), the Copy Selection to Main Playlist button and corresponding shortcut promote it to the master Playlist for that track. This had some advantages, such as not forcing you to mute and unmute individual tracks manually, but had the big disadvantage that you could only see one Playlist at once. I would then cut and paste the best bits onto a master track to create the finished vocal comp. I would record a number of takes and then pull them out onto separate tracks, then route all these tracks to an Aux track so I could audition them all through the same processing chain. Loop Record Pro Tools By diomocaca1979 Follow | Publicįor instance, if you loop recorded around the first verse until you were happy, then did the same for the chorus, and so on, you might end up with lots of Playlists, most of which were empty at any given point.
