So when we are working with a number of tracks together such as drums, we will be wanting to create new playlists for them all at once, that can be done using track groups, if you are new to track grouping you can learn about them in our tutorial here I’ll start by talking about how the playlist function labels your takes, Pro Tools will add a numeric count to the end of your track name, for example if you original track was labelled ‘Guitar’, the next playlist would title the track ‘Guitar.01’ then ‘Guitar.02’ and so on….īut hang on, isn’t your second take then going to be labelled ‘Guitar.01’? If you’re ok with this then go right on, but if you suddenly need to locate take 16, wouldn’t it make more sense to look for ‘Guitar.16’? This can be achieved by labelling the original track ‘Guitar.01’ from which Pro Tools will increase the number per each additional take, makes sense to hold this habit when creating and labelling your sessions. Playlists allow you to record multiple takes on one track keeping everything clean, and a dream when it comes to combining different sections of takes to one master. Pro Tools thankfully thought ahead and offers a solution in ‘playlists’. When in the studio tracking a large number of microphones at one time, such as a drum kit, a session can quickly become messy an unorganised as more takes and dubs are recorded as well.

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