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Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Pro Tools – The world's leading digital audio workstation

Learning Pro Tools

Chapter 2 Using Pro Tools

2.1 Introduction

Getting started

2.2 Starting the Engines

The Playback Engine

Automatic Delay Compensation

Manual Delay Compensation

Auditioning audio from other applications

2.3 The user interface

The QuickStart dialog

Opening sessions with plug-ins deactivated

Setting the Color Palette

Managing your Window Configurations

Creating Window Configurations

Window Display Settings

The Universe View

2.4 The main windows

Organizing the Transport window

Transport Preferences

Scrub/Shuttle and the Numeric Keypad modes

Using the Scrubber Tools

Scrub/Shuttle ...

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