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Track color-coding

Track color-coding - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Track color-coding

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- [Instructor] Pro Tools provides default color coding for the tracks in your sessions based on the session preference settings. You can also apply colors of your choosing to help tracks stand out. Here, you can see the different colors assigned to the various tracks in the Off to Work session displayed here on the left. The preference settings that affect color coding are located under the Display tab in the dialogue box. Here, we can see the available options on the right side. The default setting color codes by track type. So in my session, all of the audio tracks are one color, the instrument tracks are another color, the blasts midi track uses a third color, and the aux inputs and the master fader each have their own colors as well. So you can change these preference settings if needed, but at this point, it's probably best to stick with the default configuration. There is one option in here that you might want to…

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