Duplicating Tracks

The Duplicate Track command lets you duplicate one or more tracks, including their audio or MIDI data, playlists, automation, and other attributes.

To duplicate one or more tracks:

1 Select the tracks you want to duplicate.

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For information, see Selecting Tracks.

2 Do one of the following:

Choose Track > Duplicate.

Press Option+Shift+D (Mac) or Alt+Shift+D (Windows).

Right-click the name of the track in the Track List, or Mix or Edit window, and select Duplicate.

 

Duplicate Tracks dialog

3 In the Duplicate Tracks dialog, configure the following options as needed:

Enter how many copies you want to create in the Number of Duplicates filed.

To copy the currently active (visible) Edit playlist from the source track, select Active Playlist.

To copy all Edit playlists on the source track, select Alternate Playlists

To copy all automation from the source track, select Automation.

To copy all plug-in and insert assignments, select Inserts.

To copy all sends and send assignments, select Sends.

To maintain all Mix and Edit Group assignments, select Group Assignments.

4 If duplicating multiple tracks, do one of the following:

If you want all the newly created tracks to follow the last selected source track (to the far-right of the Mix window, and at the bottom of the Edit window), select the Insert after Last Selected Track option.

– or – 

If you want each newly-created track to be inserted directly after its source track, deselect this option.

5 Click OK to duplicate tracks according to the settings in the Duplicate Tracks dialog. Click Cancel to close the dialog and not create duplicate tracks.

In the Mix window, each duplicate track is created to the right of its original track. In the Edit window, each duplicate track is created below its original track. When duplicating multiple tracks, you can also choose to have the new tracks follow the last selected track (or have each new track follow its source track).