Column data – M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio User Manual

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To add a secondary sort:

„

Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the

column title for the secondary sort criteria.

To toggle the current sort order between
ascending and descending:

„

Click the Sort toggle arrow, at the top of the

vertical scroll bars.

Column Data

In browsers, each row of data represents an item
in a database (such as a file, session, or volume).
Each column displays specific data for an item,
as follows.

Status

The Status column is the first column on

the left, and it displays the status of each item,
as follows.

Name

Displays the name of the file, folder, vol-

ume, catalog, or session. This text field is edit-
able in all browsers except Catalogs.

A

Designates volumes for audio R (Record and

Playback), P (Playback only), or T (Transfer).
Available in the Workspace browser only.

V

Designates volumes as video R (Record and

Playback), P (Playback only), or T (Transfer).
Available in the Workspace browser only.

Kind

Displays whether the volume, folder, cata-

log, or file. For files, this column displays what
kind of file it is: session file, audio file, video file,
or other. This field cannot be edited. For audio
files, this column also indicates whether the file
is sample-based to tick-based.

Size

Displays the size of a file in kilobytes. For

folders, the total size of all files in the folder is
displayed. This field cannot be edited.

Date Indexed

Displays the last indexed date for

the item. This field cannot be edited.

Capacity

Displays the total capacity of a volume.

This field cannot be edited.

Free

Displays the unused space on volumes.

This field cannot be edited.

Waveform

Displays a graphical overview of an

audio file. See “Waveforms” on page 246 for
more information.

Duration

Displays the duration of a file in abso-

lute time (minutes and seconds), regardless of
the time code format. For region groups, MIDI,
tick-based Elastic Audio files, REX, and ACID
files, Duration displays Bars and Beats. This field
cannot be edited.

Performing a secondary sort

Status Icons and Display

Icon

Text Status

none

Black

Online

none

Blue

italics

Offline

T

Blue

italics

Transfer

Ð

Blue

Elastic Audio
Analysis
Calculated

Primary Sort

Secondary Sort

For more information, see “Audio and
Video Volume Designators” on page 261.

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