Master Faders have many other uses not least of which is providing insert slots for buss processors. Its job is to monitor headroom on the output, without a master fader a track can be clipping its output and there would be no visual indication that this was happening. Master FaderĪ Master Fader should always be present in a Pro Tools session no matter how small. In the Edit window look to the top left where you’ll find the track header show/hide controls. To view MIDI settings on Instrument Tracks in the Mix Window go to the view controls in the bottom left of the Mix Window and check “Instrument'. Incorrect MIDI routing can be a cause of problems in MIDI sessions so you need to know where to look to find these.

The inclusion of these is largely historical but for the novice, if you want to use MIDI in Pro Tools you probably want an Instrument Track.Ī very common source of confusion for new users is the location of MIDI settings on newly created instrument tracks. A common source of confusion is the existence of the MIDI track as well as the Instrument track. Instrument tracks are usually what a user needs if they wish to use MIDI. You used to have to manage this yourself but Pro Tools now does nearly all of it automatically - a big time saver if you work at channel widths greater than stereo. Something you can do more easily that you used to be able to is to route to and from tracks of different channel widths.

If audio is playing back at the wrong pitch or speed you might well have a sample rate problem. You have the option to convert mis-matched sample rates. You can mix and match different bit depths in a session but not different sample rates. One common question is whether it is possible to change audio tracks from mono to stereo and vice-versa - it is not, inserting some plug-ins will change the mixer channel to stereo but the track itself will still be mono. You can record to them directly or If you import audio into Pro Tools you will be given the choice to create new tracks for that audio to populate or to place it in the clips list for use later. Audio tracks are fairly self-explanatory.

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