Creating New Paths

For more information, see the following topics:

New Paths Dialog

New Path Row Settings

Add Default Channel Assignments Option

Auto-Create Sub-Paths Option

The I/O Setup lets you create new paths with custom names, formats, and assignments to physical I/O. Custom path names appear in a session’s track Input, Output, Insert, and Bus selectors.

To create a new path:

1 Choose Setup > I/O.

2 Click the Input, Output, Insert, or Bus tab to display the corresponding path type.

3 Click New Path.

4 In the New Path dialog, specify the number of new paths you want to create, the channel width for each path, and the path name.

 

New Paths dialog

5 Do one of the following:

To add more paths, click the Add Row button.

– or – 

To remove a path, click the Remove Row button.

Add a new path by pressing Command+N (Mac) or Control+N (Windows), or by pressing Command+Plus (+) (Mac) or Control+Plus (+) (Windows) on the numeric keypad.

To remove the last path from the New Path dialog Command+Minus (–) (Mac) or Control+Minus (–) (Windows).

6 Enable (or disable) the New Paths options Add the Default Channel Assignments and Auto-Create Sub-paths.

7 Click Create.

When you create a new Output path, an output bus is automatically created on the Bus page of the IO Setup, and is automatically mapped to the output path you created. See Output Busses.

8 Assign the path to a specific audio interface (Input, Output, and Insert pages only) in the Grid column. See Assigning Paths to Hardware I/O.

9 Repeat the previous steps to configure all path types (Input, Output, Insert, or Bus).

10 Click OK to save changes and close the I/O Setup. If there are any identically named paths, you will be instructed to correct them before the I/O Setup will close. For more information, see Valid Paths and Requirements.

Multichannel paths and mixing are explained in Pro Tools Setup for Surround.