M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 775)

Chapter 37: AudioSuite Processing 757
Peak On Each Chan/Track Analyzes and pro-
cesses each selected track individually. If you ap-
ply the Normalize plug-in to multiple tracks or a
multichannel track in Peak On Each Chan/Track
mode, each channel or track will be normalized
independently, without regard to the other se-
lected tracks.
Peak On All Chans/Tracks Uses all currently se-
lected channels and tracks for analysis. If you
apply the Normalize plug-in to a multichannel
track or multiple tracks in Peak On All
Chans/Tracks mode, the tracks will be analyzed
as a single entity and regions will be normalized
relative to the averaged peak level within all se-
lected channels and tracks.
Find Level Button
For some gain processing plug-ins, the Find Level
button can be found next to the Process button
in the AudioSuite Plug-in Window footer. It can
analyze a selection without actually processing
it. For example, using the DigiRack Gain plug-
in, you can use the Find Level button to deter-
mine the maximum peak level on a track at a
specific gain value before you process the audio.
Key Input Selector
Selects a track/bus to be used to trigger process-
ing. In order to use this feature, the key input
source audio must occur at the same time as the
target audio. Side-chain input is monophonic.
See “Side-Chain Input” on page 885.
Channel Mode Button
The Channel Mode button lets you process con-
tiguous channels within a selected region as
though they were mono or stereo tracks (and in
some cases greater-than-stereo tracks), regard-
less of the type of tracks they occupy.
Mono Mode Processes each contiguous channel
within a selected region as a separate mono
track. For example, a region comprised of six
mono tracks would be processed as six mono
tracks.
Stereo Mode Processes each contiguous pair of
channels within a selected region as a stereo
track. When applied to an odd number of chan-
nels, the plug-in processes the last odd, unpaired
channel as mono, using the left channel settings
of the stereo plug-in. If you want the last track to
be processed in stereo, you must select an addi-
tional track to pair it with—an empty one if nec-
essary.
For example, a region comprised of two mono
tracks would be processed as a stereo track, with
the first mono track processed as the left chan-
nel and the second mono track processed as the
right channel.
Multi Mode Processes each set of three or more
contiguous channels within a selected region as
a multichannel greater-than-stereo track, with
the number of selected channels determining
the type of track. For example, five contigu-
ously-selected channels would be processed as a
5.0 track, while seven contiguously-selected
channels will be processed as a 7.1 track.
Side-chain inputs for plug-ins have no effect
on AudioSuite processes when the Selection
Reference is set to Region List.
Multi mode is available only for certain
plug-ins, such as Dynamics III.