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Chapter 10: Tracks 117
Chapter 10: Tracks
This chapter covers basic track management
tasks such as creating and deleting tracks, as-
signing voices and output channels, and group-
ing tracks.
Track Types
In a Pro Tools session, you can have several dif-
ferent types of tracks. These can include audio,
Auxiliary Input, Master Fader, VCA Master
(Pro Tools HD only), MIDI, Instrument, and
video tracks.
Audio, Auxiliary Input, Master Fader,
and VCA Master Tracks
Pro Tools provides mono, stereo, and multi-
channel format audio, Auxiliary Input, Master
Fader, and VCA Master tracks.
Audio Tracks
Audio tracks let you record to disk and play back
from disk recorded or imported audio files.
Auxiliary Input Tracks
Auxiliary Input tracks can be used as effects
sends, destinations for submixes, as a bounce
destination, as inputs to monitor or process au-
dio (such as audio from external MIDI instru-
ments), and for many other audio routing tasks.
Master Fader Tracks
Master Fader tracks control the overall level of
audio paths that are routed to physical output
paths. For example, you could have 24 tracks in
a session with channels 1–8 routed to Analog
Output 1–2, channels 9–16 to Analog Output
3–4, and channels 17–24 to Analog Output 5–6.
You could then create three master faders, one
to control each of these output pairs.
Master Fader tracks have additional uses (such as
controlling submix levels). For more informa-
tion, see “Master Fader Tracks” on page 628.
Video track features are described in
Chapter 36, “Working with Video in
Pro Tools”