Chapter 27. Playlists; Working With Playlists - DigiDesign Pro Tools 8.0 Reference Manual

Chapter 27: Playlists
The ability to create playlists is a powerful fea-
ture of Pro Tools. Each track maintains a "main"
playlist and any number of "alternate" edit play-
lists.
Edit playlists let you take a snapshot of a track's
current arrangement of regions, thereby freeing
you to experiment with alternate arrangements,
returning as necessary to previously saved play-
lists.
A playlist, which can consist of a single region or
many regions, can only be assigned to a track if
it is not in use by another track. While you can
create an almost unlimited number of edit play-
lists, which are shared among all tracks, each
track has its own dedicated automation playlist.
Automation playlists for audio, Auxiliary Input,
Master Fader, and Instrument tracks store data
for volume, pan, mute, and plug-in controls.
Automation playlists for MIDI tracks, however,
store only mute information; continuous con-
troller events, program changes, and Sysex
events are stored in MIDI regions and therefore
reside within edit playlists for both MIDI and In-
strument tracks.
For more information on automation playl-
ists, see Chapter 42, "Automation."

Working with Playlists

When you create a new track, it contains a sin-
gle, empty playlist until you record, import, or
drag and drop material to it.
Audio material can be dragged and dropped
onto a track from the Region List, DigiBase
browsers, from Windows Explorer or the
Mac Finder.
New playlists can be created that are empty or
duplicates of the current playlist. Once created,
you can recall, rename, and delete playlists as
needed by using the Playlist selector.
Playlist selector
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