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Choose the audio drive where you want to
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save your session.
Type a name for your session.
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Click Save.
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To prepare an audio track for recording:
Choose Track > New.
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Specify 1 Mono Audio Track in Samples, if
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your source is mono, or 1 Stereo Audio Track in
Samples, if your source is stereo.
Creating a new Stereo audio track
Click Create.
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A mono instrument uses one input on the
Mbox 2 Pro, and a stereo instrument uses
two. Creating a stereo track in Pro Tools
will not make a mono instrument into a ste-
reo instrument. If a mono instrument is re-
corded on a stereo track, one of the sides of
the stereo track will show no signal.
Make sure the Mix window is open by choos-
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ing Window > Mix.
In the Mix window, click the Audio Input Path
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selector on the new track.
From the pop-up menu, select the interface in-
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put you want to record. For example, select
Analog 1 if your audio source is plugged into an
Input 1 connector on the Mbox 2 Pro.
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Routing an input to a mono track
Play the instrument or sound source at the
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volume you will record.
Use the Gain controls to maximize the signal
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going into Pro Tools while avoiding clipping.
Clipping occurs when you feed a signal to an
audio device that is louder than the circuitry
can accept. To avoid clipping, adjust the out-
put volume of the source device, then adjust
the Mbox 2 Pro Gain control. Adjust these
two levels so that the input Peak LEDs on the
front panel do not light red. (One Peak LED
is provided on the front panel for each input;
Peak LEDs light green when the input signal
is roughly –60 dBFS, light yellow at –6 dBFS,
and will turn red to indicate the input signal
is at –0 dBFS (also known as "full code").
To record an audio track:
Click the track's Record Enable button.
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Record enabling a track in the Mix window