DigiDesign Digidesign Pro Tools 8.0, Reference Manual

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When you are finished playing, click Stop in
the Transport to stop recording.
For each record-enabled track, a new MIDI re-
gion is created and appears both in the playlist
and in the Region List.
MIDI Regions Are Created on Barlines
When recording MIDI, or when manually enter-
ing MIDI notes, the beginning and ending of
MIDI regions are created on bar boundaries. This
greatly facilitates arranging MIDI regions in a
musically meaningful way, in whole bar
lengths.
The beginning of a recorded MIDI region always
starts on the barline immediately before the first
MIDI note (Note On) of the region. Likewise, the
MIDI region ends on the barline immediately
following the last note (Note Off) of the region.
Recording Over Exisiting MIDI Regions
Unlike audio regions, existing MIDI regions are
never overwritten even though MIDI data
within regions can be overwritten. When MIDI
Merge mode is disabled and recording MIDI on a
track with existing regions, newly recorded
MIDI data overwrites existing MIDI data within
existing regions, but the existing region bound-
aries remain. New MIDI regions are only created
to fill the gaps between existing MIDI region
boundaries. Typically, new MIDI regions are al-
ways created on barlines. However, if existing
region boundaries are not on barlines, newly
created regions are bound by the existing re-
gions.
Playing Back Recorded MIDI
To play back recorded MIDI and Instrument tracks:
1
To start from the beginning of the session,
click Return to Zero in the Transport.
2
Click Play in the Transport to begin playback.
The recorded MIDI data plays back through each
track’s assigned Output device (port) and chan-
nel.
Undoing MIDI Recording
You can undo previous MIDI record takes.
To undo a MIDI recording:
„
Once the Transport has been stopped, choose
Edit > Undo MIDI Recording
.
Press F12 to start recording immediately.
You can also Press Spacebar (Win-
dows) or Spacebar (Mac) to
start recording. For more information, see
“Recording Shortcuts” on page 372.
It is possible to have the Note On of a MIDI
note be in one MIDI region, and its Note Off
be in a subsequent MIDI region. It is also
possible to have the region end before the
Note Off, resulting in notes that extend
beyond the region boundary. However, Note
Ons can never precede the beginning of a
region.
To monitor audio from an external MIDI
instrument, select the corresponding audio
Input Path for your MIDI instrument on the
Instrument track (or use an Auxiliary Input
track). See “Signal Routing for Monitoring
and Submixing” on page 853.