Voice Requirements for Recording a Submix

Recording a submix to new tracks requires an available voice for each track that you want to record. Make sure you have enough voices available to play back all tracks that you want to record and enough voices available to record the destination tracks.

In contrast, the Bounce to Disk command lets you bounce all available voices to disk without holding any in reserve, but you cannot manually change any controls during the bounce. For more information, see Bounce to Disk.

For information about voice management, see Track Priority and Voice Assignment.

With Pro Tools HD, RTAS plug-ins placed on Auxiliary Input, Master Fader, and Instrument tracks will use additional voices and may introduce extra latency based on the H/W Buffer Size. For more information, see Voice Usage and Total Latency for Native (Host-Based) Plug-Ins.

To record a submix to a track:

1 Apply any plug-ins or external processors you want to add to your audio tracks or Auxiliary Inputs before you record.

2 Set the main channel output of the tracks you want to include in the submix to a bus path. If you are using stereo or multichannel tracks, set the panning of each track.

3 Make sure Loop Record is not enabled.

4 Choose Track > New and create one or more mono, stereo, or multichannel audio tracks.

5 If you are recording in stereo, pan the new stereo track (or mono tracks) hard left and right.

6 Set the input of each destination track to the bus path from which you are recording.

7 Set the output of your new tracks to your main output path.

8 Ensure that Options > Link Timeline and Edit Selection is selected.

9 Select audio to record. The start, end, and length of the recording can be based on the cursor location or Timeline and Edit selections.

Selection-based recording automatically punches in and out of recording at the selection start and end. Be sure to include time at the end of a selection for reverb tails, delays, and other effects.

If you do not make a selection, recording will begin from the location of the playback cursor. Recording will continue until you press Stop.

10 Record enable the new tracks and click Record in the Transport.

11 Click Play to begin recording the submix.

12 If recording a selection, recording will stop automatically. If performing an open-ended recording, click Stop, or punch out of recording.

13 When the recording has finished, you can export the bus recorded clip using the Export Clips as Files command (see Exporting a Clip as a New Audio File).