Playlists

For more information, see the following topics:

Working with Playlists

Track Compositing

Playlists View

Matching Alternate Clips

Matching Criteria Options

Selecting Alternate Takes on Tracks

Automatically Create New Playlists when Loop Recording

Expanding Alternate Takes to New Playlists or Tracks

Expanding Alternate Channels to New Playlists or Tracks

The ability to create playlists is a powerful feature of Pro Tools. Each track maintains a “main” playlist and any number of “alternate” edit playlists.

Edit playlists let you take a snapshot of a track’s current arrangement of clips, thereby freeing you to experiment with alternate arrangements, returning as necessary to previously saved playlists.

A playlist, which can consist of a single clip or many clips, can only be assigned to a track if it is not in use by another track. While you can create an almost unlimited number of edit playlists, which are shared among all tracks, each track has its own dedicated automation playlist.

Automation playlists for audio, Auxiliary Input, Master Fader, and Instrument tracks store data for volume, pan, mute, and plug-in controls. Automation playlists for MIDI tracks, however, store only mute information; continuous controller events, program changes, and Sysex events are stored in MIDI clips and therefore reside within edit playlists for both MIDI and Instrument tracks (see Automation).