Elastic Audio Tracks

Any audio track in your Pro Tools session can be Elastic Audio enabled. Elastic Audio tracks can be either sample- or tick-based. Sample-based Elastic Audio-enabled tracks let you apply real-time or rendered Elastic Audio processing by editing in Warp view, applying Quantize, and using the TCE Trim tool. However, only tick-based Elastic Audio tracks also automatically apply Elastic Audio processing based on tempo changes in the session.

To have all new tracks be tick-based, enable the New Tracks Default To Tick Timebase option in the Editing preferences.

When creating new tracks by dragging and dropping audio from a DigiBase browser, if the Audio Files Conform to Session Tempo option is enabled, Pro Tools creates tick-based Elastic Audio-enabled tracks regardless of whether the Elastic Audio analyzed file is tick-based or sample-based. If the Audio Files Conform to Session Tempo option is not enabled, Pro Tools creates regular sample-based tracks.

With Pro Tools HD, Elastic Audio is disallowed on voiced tracks. Use dynamic voice allocation for tracks on which you want to use Elastic Audio. (Pro Tools only supports dynamic voice allocation, and cannot specifically allocate individual voices.)