Pro Tools Reference Guide632
TrackInput
The VCA TrackInput button toggles the input
monitor status of only those audio tracks in a
VCA-controlled group that are record-enabled.
You can toggle Input Monitor status for those
tracks using the VCA Master TrackInput button.
To temporarily force all slave tracks to toggle their
input monitoring status:
■ Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the
VCA Master TrackInput button on the VCA Mas-
ter.
Level Meter
On VCA Master tracks, Level meters indicates
the highest level occurring on any of its individ-
ual tracks, not a summed level of all slave tracks.
The channel format of Level meters on the VCA
Master is set according to the channel formats of
its slave tracks, as follows:
• If all slave tracks are the same channel for-
mat (mono, stereo or a multichannel for-
mat), the number of level meters on the
VCA Master track is identical to that of the
slave tracks.
• If the slave tracks are different formats, the
number of level meters on the VCA Master
track is set to one.
Record Enable, TrackInput and Slave
Tracks
When a slave track is record-enabled (the Record
Enable button is lit) or set to Input Only mode
(the TrackInput button is lit), its automation is
temporarily turned off, and its Volume fader is
no longer affected by the VCA Master.
Allowing Grouped Behavior of Slave
Track Controls
When a track is a VCA slave track, its Volume,
Mute, Solo, Record Enable, and Input Monitor-
ing controls follow VCA functions, and nor-
mally do not follow Mix group behavior.
However, these slave track controls can be set to
allow Mix group behavior in addition to their
VCA functions.
To allow grouped behavior of VCA-related controls
on slave tracks:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click Mixing.
2 In the Automation section, deselect the “Stan-
dard VCA Logic for Group Attributes” option.
Volume, Mute, Solo, Record Enable, and Input
Monitoring are made available as Mix group at-
tributes in the Group dialog.
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