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AES/EBU: Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcast Union. A professional transmission protocol that specifies two channels of data through an XLR cable as the standard for digital audio.

Audio region: A visual representation of a Pro Tools audio file. Regions can be whole audio files or segments of audio files and are usually displayed during editing as audio waveforms.

Audio signal flow: The path that audio takes through a mixer. In Pro Tools, this path is generally fixed, moving from top to bottom through audio track, auxiliary input, and master fader channel strips.

Audio track: In Pro Tools, a channel that holds and controls recorded or imported audio files.

AudioSuite plug-ins: Digidesign’s nonreal-time plug-ins. They process ...

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