The basics of Playlists have been covered several times before in SOS, and I’d refer anyone who hasn’t used this feature to Mike Thornton’s introduction back in April 2009 ( I’ll try to avoid covering familiar ground in this article instead, I want to untangle some of the less obvious aspects of the way Playlists behave when edited. Better still, you can create an additional empty Playlist and use Pro Tools’ advanced comping tools to piece together a composite of the best bits from all the takes. Each new Playlist you create is ‘stacked’ on top of its predecessor, and once you’ve finished recording, you can select whichever Playlist contains your favourite take. Creating a new Playlist on a track lets you record anew into that track whilst keeping whatever you have previously recorded. The basic idea of Playlists is to allow you to record multiple takes of the same audio or MIDI parts, without having to create a new set of tracks or move further down the timeline every time you want to do so. Playlists are one of those Pro Tools features that have long been coveted by users of other DAWs, and most rival products now offer similar functions, although not all of them are as elegant as Avid’s original implementation. Playlists in Pro Tools are usually invaluable, but once in a while, they can trip you up. A fourth, empty Playlist has been created to serve as a receptacle for my composite edit. In this simple example, three takes have been recorded to separate Playlists in two audio tracks, which have been Grouped.
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