Pro Tools Reference Guide444
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 when viewing MIDI or In-
strument tracks in Notes or Regions Views, se-
lections include all underlying automation 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 any of the Grabber tools (by drawing a rect-
angle around them), only the note data is placed
on the Clipboard. When selecting a time range
of MIDI notes with the Selector tool, all control-
ler data in the track is selected (similar to select-
ing with the Selector tool 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.
If tracks are grouped, copying and pasting on
any of the tracks affects each of the other tracks
in the group. Tracks that are hidden—even if
they are part of a group being edited—are not af-
fected by edits.
The Edit mode affects how material is selected,
copied, and pasted:
• In Slip mode, the Cut command leaves an
empty space corresponding to the data re-
moved from the track.
• In Slip mode, pasted data can overlap an adja-
cent region.
• In Shuffle mode, the Cut command leaves no
empty space, since the regions to the right of
the cut slide over, closing the gap.
• In Shuffle mode, pasted data causes all regions
to slide over to make room for the pasted ma-
terial.
New regions are often auto-created when per-
forming edits. For instance, when clearing a se-
lection from a region, new regions are auto-cre-
ated from the material residing outside of the
selection.
Audio waveform data
Automation data (breakpoint-type data) with Cut and
Pasted audio region
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