Editing during Playback

Pro Tools lets you perform many editing tasks while the session plays. This powerful capability lets you interactively modify and edit a session, hearing the changes as you make them.

Use Loop and Dynamic Transport modes for auditioning and editing loops during playback. See Playback Modes.

Following are just a few examples of editing and arranging tasks that can be performed while playing back a Pro Tools session:

Capture, separate, cut, copy, paste, and trim clips

Place, spot, or rearrange clips

Add fades or crossfades to audio clips

Quantize MIDI notes and audio events

Transpose and otherwise modify MIDI tracks

Nudge audio or MIDI clips

Audition different playlists

Adjust or scale automation and MIDI continuous controller data

Insert real-time plug-ins

Apply Real-Time (and Rendered) Elastic Audio processing

Process audio with an AudioSuite plug-in

Automation editing

There are a few things that cannot be changed while Pro Tools plays, as noted in relevant topics.