Record Modes

For more information, see the following topics:

Normal (Nondestructive) Record Mode

Destructive Record Mode

Loop Record Mode

QuickPunch

TrackPunch

DestructivePunch

Record Modes and MIDI

For recording audio, Pro Tools provides the following Record modes:

Normal (Nondestructive)

Destructive

Loop

QuickPunch

TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit only)

DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit only)

To select the Record mode, do one of the following:

Select the Record mode in the Options menu. If no Record mode is selected, Pro Tools is in Normal (Nondestructive) Record mode.

– or – 

Right-click the Record button in the Transport and select the Record mode from the pop-up menu.

You can also cycle through the Pro Tools record modes with the Transport stopped, by Start-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac) the Record button.

The Record button changes to indicate the selected Record mode as follows:

Blank for Normal (Nondestructive)

“D” for Destructive

Loop symbol for Loop Record

“P” for QuickPunch

“T” for TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD only)

“DP” for DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD only)

 

Destructive Record mode enabled

When recording, you can preserve disk space by removing unwanted record takes (see Clearing Unwanted Clips) and compacting audio files (see Compacting an Audio File).