Editing Stereo And Multichannel Tracks - DigiDesign Pro Tools Reference Manual

Editing Stereo and
Multichannel Tracks
Regions on individual channels within stereo
and multichannel tracks cannot be indepen-
dently selected. All selections for these tracks are
time-based, which means that selections made
with the Selector or Time Grabber tool extend to
each channel in the track.
When regions in multichannel tracks are edited
with any of the Trim tools or dragged with the
Time Grabber tool, material on all channels is
affected equally as a group.
Split Selected Tracks
To edit a specific channel within a stereo or mul-
tichannel track without affecting the other
channels, you can split the track into separate
mono tracks. Once the edits have been made to
the separated material, you can then drag or
copy it back to the original multichannel track.
To split a stereo or multichannel track:
Select the track you want to split by clicking
1
its name in the Mix or Edit window. To split
multiple tracks, Shift-click additional tracks.
Choose Track > Split into Mono. Regions from
2
the channels on the selected tracks are placed
on new, mono audio tracks.
Names for the new tracks are based on the
source track name and channel suffix. For exam-
ple, if a stereo track called "Funkit" is split, two
new tracks called "Funkit.L" and "Funkit.R" are
created.
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Output and send assignments and volume and
pan settings are retained in the new tracks.
Mono equivalents of stereo and multi-mono
plug-in assignments are assigned in the new
tracks; multichannel plug-in assignments are
not assigned in the new tracks.
Dragging Regions to and from Stereo
and Multichannel Tracks
Dragging a stereo region to two mono audio tracks
When dragging regions to or from stereo or mul-
tichannel tracks, the following rules apply:
Provided the number of tracks and channels
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are the same for the source and destination, you
can drag regions between multichannel tracks
and mono tracks.
The source and destination for dragged re-
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gions can be mixed. For example, you can drag
regions from a 5.0 track (containing five chan-
nels) to a stereo track and three mono audio
tracks.
When dragging multichannel regions to
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mono tracks, the destination tracks must be ad-
jacent.
When dragging regions from mono tracks to a
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multichannel track, the source tracks need not
be adjacent.