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You will find an option in the track display drop‑down menu called Playlist. The vocal comping feature in Pro Tools allows us to combine the best of both techniques, because you can now display each Playlist on a track in its own separate lane. This had some advantages, such as not forcing you to mute and unmute individual tracks manually, but has the big disadvantage that you could only see one Playlist at once. The other main technique used by many people is to keep the separate takes as Playlists on a single track and copy the best bits to a new Playlist on that track to create a comp.
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Then I would cut and paste the best bits onto a 'master' track to create the finished vocal comp. Vocal Comping In Pro Toolsīefore the vocal comping feature was added back in Pro Tools 8, I would record a number of takes and then pull them out of the clip list onto separate tracks, then route all these tracks to an Aux track so I could audition them all through the same processing chain. Leave the original playlist empty, when you come to ‘comp up’ you will have an empty playlist to comp onto. That way Playlist 01 becomes ‘take 1’ etc so you won’t need to need to do the mental adjustments to convert playlist numbers to take numbers. When recording make sure that you give each ‘take’ a playlist. Pro Tools also has the option to be able to rate each clip to help you see which is the best take of each segment. You can also use multiple playlists to hold different takes and then combine the best bits into one master track. Using playlists gives you the facility to have different edits on the same track.
PROTOOLS 12 PLAYLISTS HOW TO
In part 11 of our Getting To Grips With Pro Tools series, we are going to take a look at how to use playlists, comping and labels.