Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide280
Muting/Unmuting Regions
Choosing the Mute/Unmute Region command
mutes playback of a selected region. Choosing
the command a second time unmutes the re-
gion. Regions that are muted become dimmed
to indicate their status.
To mute a region or regions:
1 With the Grabber, select the region or regions
you want to mute. The regions can even reside
on multiple tracks.
2 Choose Edit > Mute/Unmute Region. The se-
lected regions become dimmed, indicating they
are muted.
To unmute a region, select it and choose Edit >
Mute/Unmute Region.
Edit Commands
Cut, Copy, Clear, and Paste
Use the Cut, Copy, Clear, and Paste commands
to rearrange and edit track material. Edits can
operate on entire regions selected with the
Grabber, or on track ranges selected with the Se-
lector. Edits can also work across multiple tracks
(see “Editing Across Multiple Tracks” on
page 283).
Track View and Edit Content
When cutting or copying track material, the
Track View determines the type of data placed
on the Clipboard. When displaying waveforms
for audio tracks, or notes or regions for MIDI
tracks, selections include all underlying automa-
tion and controller data. Thus, cutting an audio
region also cuts any volume, pan, mute, send, or
plug-in automation that is also on the track.
This saves you from having to individually cut
from each automation playlist on the track.
However, when selecting groups of MIDI notes
with the Grabber (by drawing a rectangle
around them), only the note data is placed on
the Clipboard. When selecting a time range of
MIDI notes with the Selector, all controller data
in the track is selected (similar to selecting with
the Selector for audio tracks in Waveform view).
When a track is displaying automation data or
controller data, only that data is placed on the
Clipboard. Also, whenever you cut or copy auto-
mation data, bounding breakpoints are created
at each end of the selected area, in order to pre-
serve the slope of the automation both inside
and outside the selection.
Muted audio region (middle)
For TDM systems, you can cut, copy, and
paste discontiguous regions selected with
the Object Grabber.
Audio waveform data
Automation data (breakpoint-type data)