User`s guide

Chapter 15: Working with Regions and Selections 183
To identify a region sync point:
1 Set the Edit mode to Slip by clicking its
button in the upper left of the Edit window.
2 With the Selector, click in the region at
the point, usually the peak of the wave-
form, where you want to define the sync
point.
3 Choose Edit > Identify Sync Point. A
small down arrow appears at the bottom of
the region, indicating the location of the
sync point.
To remove a sync point, select the region
and choose Edit > Remove Sync Point.
Shuffling Regions
In Shuffle mode, you can move regions
freely within a track or onto another track,
but their movement is constrained by
other regions. That is, if you place several
regions in a track, their start and end points
automatically snap to each other. You can
then “shuffle” their order, but you cannot
separate them from each other and you
cannot make them overlap as in Slip mode.
In Shuffle mode, adding another region to
the beginning of a track moves all subse-
quent regions to the right by the length of
the region added.
To shuffle regions:
1 Set the Edit mode to Shuffle by clicking
its button in the upper left of the Edit win-
dow.
2 Drag a region from the Regions List to an
empty track. The region snaps to the begin-
ning of the track.
3 Drag a second region from the Regions
List to the same track, somewhere in the
middle. The start point for the second re-
gion snaps to the end of the first region.
4 With the Grabber, drag the second region
to the beginning of the track.
Pro Tools “shuffles” the position of the two
regions. The second region now occurs
first, yet the two still cling together.
Experiment more with Shuffle mode by
dragging additional regions to the track
and rearranging them.
Locked regions (see “Locking Regions” on
page 189), and all regions occurring after
the locked region, are not displaced when
other neighboring regions are moved in
Shuffle mode. If there is not enough room
to place or duplicate a region in front of a
locked region, the insertion area is dis-
abled.
If you place a region in Slip mode and
switch to Shuffle mode, Pro Tools preserves
the relative timing and position of the
slipped region, and any blank space be-
tween it and other regions.
Sync point defined
Regions placed in Shuffle mode