Loop Recording Audio - DigiDesign Pro Tools Reference Manual

With the Selector tool, drag in the track's play-
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list until the selection encompasses the punch
range. For other methods of setting the record
range, see "Setting Punch/Loop Points" on
page 208.
To hear any existing track material up to the
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start point, or after the end point, enable and set
pre- and post-roll times. For details, see "Setting
Pre- and Post-Roll" on page 211.
Click Record in the Transport window. When
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you are ready to begin recording, click Play.
When the punch-in (start) point is reached,
Pro Tools begins recording. Recording contin-
ues until the punch-out (end) point is reached,
unless Stop is clicked in the Transport window.
If post-roll is enabled, playback continues for
the specified post-roll amount.
If recording nondestructively, a new audio file is
written to your hard drive and a new audio re-
gion appears in the record track and Region List.
If recording in Destructive Record mode, the
new audio overwrites the previous material in
the existing audio file and region.
Monitoring During Punch-Ins
Pro Tools provides two monitoring modes for
recording: Auto Input monitoring and Input
Only monitoring.
See "Auto Input Monitoring" on page 182.

Loop Recording Audio

Pro Tools provides a loop recording feature that
lets you record take after take while the same
section of audio repeats over and over. This is a
convenient technique for quickly recording
multiple takes of a part without losing sponta-
neity.
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When loop recording, you must first specify the
start and end points for the loop. Though there
are several ways to set record and play ranges
(see "Setting Punch/Loop Points" on page 208),
perhaps the easiest is to select within the track's
playlist the material to be looped.
To set a record or play range by selecting
within a playlist, the Edit and Timeline se-
lections must be linked (select Options >
Link Timeline and Edit Selection).
The pre-roll setting, if enabled, is used only dur-
ing the first record pass, and the post-roll set-
ting, if enabled, is used only on the last pass.
Pre- and post-roll times are ignored on each suc-
cessive loop. To compensate for this, you may
want to make the loop range slightly longer.
Later, you can trim back the recorded takes to
the proper length with the Trim tool (see "Using
the Trim Tools" on page 289).
When loop recording audio, Pro Tools creates a
single audio file that comprises all takes. Takes
appear as individual regions in the Region List
and are numbered sequentially. Once you stop
recording, you can audition any of the recorded
takes.
To use alternate takes created with Loop
Record in other sessions (such as when us-
ing Import Session Data), export region def-
initions (see "Exporting Region Defini-
tions" on page 152). If region definitions
are not exported, alternate takes created
with Loop Record will be inaccessible when
imported into another session.