Using the Pro Tools First Grid mode ensures that when you move a region, or select part of a region, it snaps to the grid. By clicking on any of these, you will enter a different edit mode. The different Pro Tools First edit modes give you different options for the way that you can move and edit regions on your timeline. Whilst in grid mode, your regions will always snap to the grid when you move them. The same is true if you try to select a portion of a region or trim a region.
Your selection or trim will snap to the grid. You can toggle between hiding and showing the grid here:. Clicking the arrow to the right of these digits reveals more options that you have to customize your grid into shorter or longer segments:. Using this mode allows you to achieve consistent and accurate placements of your regions. Whats more, the grid is totally customisable too. Do you think that using grid mode is something that will come in handy in your sessions?
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Adding a clip to the end of a track will instantly place it next to the final clip in the track with no gap. Placing a clip at the start of a track will move all later clips later in the track by the same length as the clip being inserted.
Removing a clip, or a section of a clip, in a track will move all tracks after the removed clip to be moved earlier by the length of the removed clip. This mode can be used to try new arrangements in loop-based music, by shuffling the bars around.
This is probably the Edit Mode we use the least for music production, but it remains incredibly powerful. Spot Mode can be used to place clips at exact locations, using any of the Time Scales. This Mode is incredibly useful for post-production where clips need to be positioned to precise frame locations. Each one changes the behaviour of the Pro Tools Edit window, enabling you to edit your session in different ways.
E ngage Slip mode by clicking on the Slip button or pressing [F2]. This is the simplest of the four modes to understand. With this mode engaged you can make selections, and move the cursor or clips freely. Selecting tools with the Smart Tool engaged Pro Tools will automatically select the Trim, Selector or Grabber tools depending on exactly where the mouse pointer is relative to the clip.
You can now freely select audio from the timeline with the Selector tool. Highlight a region of audio and press [B] to separate it to create a new clip requires AZ mode engaged. Now highlight the new clip with the Grabber tool and move it to a new part of the timeline.
Note how you can place it on top of other clips, and you have complete freedom over where it lands. Engage Grid mode by clicking on the Grid button or by pressing [F4]. If you accidentally find yourself in Relative Grid mode, press the button or [F4] again to revert to standard Grid mode. Similarly, when you try to select audio from within a clip with the Selector tool you can only select a full bar at a time.
The Smart Tool can also be used to quickly draw fades by clicking with the mouse pointer in the top left or right of the clip the pointer should change to display a square with a diagonal line and shading and dragging inwards. With Shuffle Mode engaged [F1] any clips you move will automatically position themselves next to the previous clip when moved. By moving the clip that we chopped out back next to the clip at the start we should find that we have put this edit back together.
Use the Trim tool to expand the clip to the end.
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