User Manual

Chapter 24: Audio Recording 527
An audio file for the new take is written to disk and
appears as an audio clip both in the track’s playlist
and in the Clips List.
The audio from the original take remains on your
hard drive, and is still available as a clip in the
Clips List.
To destructively record over a previous take:
1 Do one of the following:
•Select
Options > Destructive Record. When in
Destructive Record mode.
• Right-click the Record button in the Transport
and select
Destructive.
A “D” appears in the Record button.
2 Record enable the track.
3 Do one of the following:
• To record from the beginning of the track, click
Return to Zero in the Transport.
• If
Options > Link Timeline and Edit Selection is
enabled, click anywhere in the track’s playlist to
begin recording from that point.
4 Click Record in the Transport to arm Pro Tools
for recording.
5 Click Play to start recording.
6 When finished, click Stop to stop recording.
The audio for the new take is written to disk, per-
manently overwriting the original. The new mate-
rial replaces the original material within the exist-
ing clip and the clip is not renamed.
Appending New Material to the
End of a Track
You can also append new material to the end of a
track.
To append new material to the end of a track:
1 Do one of the following:
• Click the Go to End button in the Transport to lo-
cate to the end of the track (this locates the end
of the session).
• Tab to the end point of the last clip on the track.
2 From there, begin recording.
Pro Tools adds the new material to the end of the
track. If using Destructive Record mode, the new
audio is appended to the audio file and clip from
the first take. In Nondestructive Record mode, a
new file and clip are created.
Recording to a New Playlist
Instead of recording over existing audio clips,
there is another way to nondestructively record
new takes to the same track. Do this by creating a
new playlist for the track, then record just as be-
fore.
Tracks can have multiple edit playlists, each of
which stores a list of clips strung together in a par-
ticular order. Also, since playlists follow groups,
duplicating or selecting alternate playlists for a
track in an enabled group will affect all tracks in
the group.
Destructive Record mode enabled
To record a specific track range, with precise
start and end points, see “Audio Punch Record-
ing Over a Specified Range” on page 525.