M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 733)

Chapter 35: Arranging Regions 715
Chapter 35: Arranging Regions
Placing Regions in Tracks
Once you have created a region, it appears in the
Region List. From the Region List you can drag it
to a track to add to an existing arrangement of
regions, or you can create a new track and start
adding regions from scratch. The exact place-
ment of regions in a track depends on whether
the Edit mode is set to Shuffle, Slip, Spot, or Grid
(see “Edit Modes” on page 445).
To place a region in a track:
1 In the Region List, select the region or regions
you want to place.
2 Drag the selected regions from the Region List
to a location in a track.
If dragging multiple regions, the regions are
placed on adjacent tracks left to right or on mul-
tiple tracks from top to bottom depending on
the selected Timeline Drop Order option (see
“Timeline Drop Order” on page 715). If drag-
ging a stereo audio region, it must be placed in a
stereo track or in two mono tracks.
Regions are placed according to the current Edit
mode:
• In Shuffle mode, existing track regions are slid
as necessary to make room for the new region.
• In Spot mode, you are prompted by the Spot
dialog to enter a location for the dragged re-
gion (see “Spotting Regions” on page 722).
• In Grid mode, the dragged region snaps to the
nearest Grid boundary.
• In Slip mode, the regions are placed exactly
where they are dropped in the destination
track.
Timeline Drop Order
The Timeline Drop Order option in the Region List
menu sets whether tracks dragged from the Re-
gion List are dropped sequentially in a single
track or spread across multiple tracks, as follows:
Top to Bottom When enabled, regions spread
across multiple destination (drop) tracks or on
new tracks (when dragging to the area below the
last track or to the Track List).
For information on locating regions in the
Region List by typing the first few letters of
their name, see “Keyboard Selection of Re-
gions” on page 216.
You can temporarily disable Grid mode
while dragging a region by holding down the
Control key (Windows) or Command key
(Mac) after clicking with the mouse.