M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 744)

Pro Tools Reference Guide 726
Replacing Audio Regions
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with Complete
Production Toolkit or DV Toolkit 2 Only)
Use the Replace Region function to replace mul-
tiple instances of an audio region in a playlist
with another region. This is useful in post pro-
duction if you use a sound effect, room noise, or
atmosphere region many times in a session, and
later decide to replace one or all of the original
regions with a different region.
This is also useful in music production if you
want to replace a certain loop or sample (for ex-
ample, a drum beat) with a new one. You can
use this compositionally, if you know the tempo
of a section or session, to create a scratch piece
with “rough” regions of the correct length, and
later replace them with “final” regions of the
same length.
To replace regions by dragging and dropping:
1 Select a region in a track’s playlist that you
want to replace. The selection can extend be-
yond the region’s end point, to include material
from the replacement region that is longer than
the original region.
2 Control-Shift-drag (Windows) or Command-
Shift-drag (Mac) the replacement region from
the Region List to the selected region. The Re-
place Region dialog opens.
3 Configure the Replace Region dialog (see “Re-
place Region Dialog” on page 726).
4 Click OK.
Replace Region Dialog
The following options are available in the Re-
place Region dialog:
Replace: Original Region Only Replaces only the
selected region with the replacement region
dragged from the Region List.
Control-Shift-drag (Windows) or Com-
mand-Shift-drag (Mac) any region from the
Region List to any unselected region on a
track to open the Replace Region dialog
without first making a selection.
Replace Region dialog