Making Pro Tools Tracks Inactive

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Summary: Pro Tool is in almost every big studio in the world. Learn how to make tracks inactive in this free video series.

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RT Ouk RT Ouk is the owner of the The Armory Recording Studios in Newington, Conn. He has been a music producer and audio engineer for over 10 years. Ouk is also the... read more

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Making Pro Tools Tracks Inactive

What I'm going to show you next is how to make a track inactive and hide it. Sometimes you may get a track that you may want to keep but, you don't want to erase it completely you may want to keep it for later on. So what you can do is go to voice. Voice basically assigns each of the tracks separate names. So what you can do is you can turn this track off. When I turn it off it's going to kind of fade the way form. I go to the button left hand and I'm going to open up the side menu of my tracks. I can look through verse dp7, look for that name and click it and it'll make my track disappear. I can do that to every track and the tracks still there and if I want to bring them back I can just click back over again. I could also use certain commands within the show and hide to show only certain tracks. I can just show only the auto tracks or only the media tracks. I can also hide and store it the same exact way