Timebase Rulers And Conductor Rulers - DigiDesign Pro Tools Reference Manual

MIDI Regions and Continuous
Controller Events
Continuous controller events reside in MIDI re-
gions and not in tracks. This means that when
dragging regions that contain controller data
from either a track or the Region List, the con-
troller data is written to the destination track.
Unlike continuous controller events, which rep-
resent nuances that are part of a MIDI perfor-
mance, Mute in Pro Tools is an automation
playlist that actually mutes the MIDI engine.
Mute automation does not correspond to actual
MIDI events and is therefore not exported when
saving as a Standard MIDI File.
Timebase Rulers and
Conductor Rulers
All rulers displayed
Any or all of the following Timebase rulers can
be displayed at the top of the Edit window:
• Bars:Beats
• Minutes:Seconds
• Time Code (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE
with DV Toolkit 2 only)
• Feet+Frames (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools
LE with DV Toolkit 2 only)
• Samples
In addition to providing a timing reference for
track material, the Timebase rulers are also used
to define Edit selections for track material, and
Timeline selections for record and play ranges.
With the Selector tool, drag in any Time-
base ruler to select material across all tracks
in the Edit window. To include the Conduc-
tor tracks in the selection, press Alt (Win-
dows) or Option (Mac) while dragging.
Any or all of the following Conductor rulers can
be displayed:
• Tempo (and Tempo Editor)
• Meter
• Markers
The Meter and Tempo rulers indicate changes in
meter and tempo within the Session. The Mark-
ers ruler displays markers to important track lo-
cations.
For more information on Tempo rulers, see
"Tempo" on page 400.
For more information on Meter rulers, see
"Meter Events" on page 420.
For more information on markers, see
Chapter 20, "Conductor Tracks and Mem-
ory Locations."
To display all rulers:
Select View > Rulers > All.
■
To remove a ruler from the display, do one of the
following:
Option-click the ruler's name (to the left of
■
the ruler display).
– or –
Choose View > Rulers, and select a ruler op-
■
tion.
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