Chapter 4: Live Recording and Playback
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Assigning Outputs to Tracks for
Monitoring, Playback, and Virtual
Soundchecks
To assign an audio output to a track:
1
Click the track’s Output Path selector.
2
If you are not monitoring or playing back your
tracks through your VENUE system, select
Bus
and choose an internal Pro Tools bus.
3
To playback or monitor a track through your
VENUE system, or to do an FWx Virtual Sound-
check, select
Output
and choose the following,
depending on your hardware configuration:
• For FWx, choose any of the available out-
puts.
• For HDx, choose an
HD Assignable
output.
• For VENUE MADI, choose an
A HD MADI
or
B HD MADI
input channel between 49 and
64.
4
To do an HDx or VENUE MADI Virtual Sound-
check with tracks recorded from digital splits of
VENUE Stage input channels, select
Output
and
choose one of the following, as available on
your system
:
• For HDx, choose an
HD1
or
HD2
output.
– or –
• For VENUE MADI, choose an
A HD MADI
or
B HD MADI channel between 1 and 48.
5
If you are using a Pro Tools HD interface to
monitor the recording, select
Output
and choose
the HD interface outputs (such as
A 1–2
) that are
connected to your monitors.
Pro Tools Input and Output Path selectors showing
current input and output assignments
Tracks can share output assignments.
Assigning a Pro Tools track output to an internal bus
Output Path selector
Assigning a Pro Tools track output to a VENUE
assignable input (HDx shown)
Assigning a Pro Tools track output to a VENUE Stage
input channel for Virtual Soundcheck (HDx shown)
You can auto-assign all tracks to the same
output by Option-clicking (Mac) or Alt-
clicking (Windows) while assigning any
track output.