Creating Tracks

For more information, see the following topics:

Default Track Names

Naming Tracks

Adding Comments to Tracks

Track Numbering

Selecting Tracks

Scrolling a Track into View

Deleting Tracks

Duplicating Tracks

Duplicating VCA Slave Tracks

You can create mono and stereo tracks on all Pro Tools systems. With Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools with the Complete Production Toolkit option, you can also create multichannel tracks (from LCR to 7.1).

When new tracks are created, they are given a default name that can be changed at any time.

To insert new tracks next to a specific track in a session, select that track by clicking the track’s name in the Mix or Edit window before opening the New Tracks dialog. The new tracks are added immediately after the selected track.

To insert new tracks after the last tracks in a session, make sure that no track names are selected on-screen before opening the New Tracks dialog.

You can also add tracks to your session by importing them from preexisting sessions. See Importing Session Data.

To create new tracks:

1 Do one of the following to open the New Tracks dialog:

Choose Track > New.

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Right-click any Track Name in the Mix or Edit windows, or Track List, and choose New.

Press Control+Shift+N (Windows) or Command+Shift+N (Mac) to open the New Tracks dialog

2 Select the type of track you want to add from the Track Type pop-up menu.

To auto-scroll the Track Type pop-up menu in the New Tracks dialog, press Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) and use the Up/Down Arrow keys.

3 Select the track format (mono, stereo, or one of the multichannel surround formats) from the Track Format pop-up menu. Surround formats are only available with Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools with the Complete Production Toolkit option.

To auto-scroll the Track Format pop-up menu, press Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) and use the Left/Right Arrow keys.

4 Select the timebase (samples or ticks) from the Track Timebase pop-up menu.

To auto-scroll the Track Timebase pop-up menu, press Command+Option (Mac) or Control+Alt (Windows) and use the Up/Down Arrow keys.

5 Enter the number of new tracks.

If you are creating various multiple new tracks, you can move to the next or previous row’s Number of New Tracks field by pressing Tab or Shift+Tab.

6 Do any of the following:

To add more tracks, click the Add Row button.

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

– or – 

To remove a track, click the Remove Row button.

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

7 To reorder tracks, drag a Move Row icon up or down.

 

Move Row icon in the New Tracks dialog

8 Click Create.