M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 366)

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In general, the Use All Available Space preference
makes hard drives work harder. In addition to
record and punch lag times, many systems see
better overall recording performance when the
Open Ended Record Allocation
setting is limited.
To allocate a specific amount of time to recording:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences and click the
Operation tab.
2 Under Open Ended Record Allocation, select
Limit To and enter the number of minutes to be
allocated.
The number of minutes specified is allocated for
each record-enabled track.
3 When you are finished, click OK.
Monitoring Drive Space
Pro Tools lets you check how much drive space
is available. The Disk Usage window shows the
available drive space for each drive connected to
your system as text and as a gauge display.
To monitor available space on your drive during a
Pro Tools session:
„ Choose Window > Disk Space.
To display available drive space in Text Only view
only:
„ From the Disk Usage menu, select Text Only.
Recording with a Click
(Optional)
If you intend to work with MIDI or Instrument
tracks in your session, or if the audio you’re
working with is bar and beat-oriented, you can
record your tracks while listening to a click. This
ensures that recorded material, both MIDI and
audio, aligns with the session’s bar and beat
boundaries.
When your track material lines up with the
beats, you can take advantage of some very use-
ful editing functions in Pro Tools, such as quan-
tizing MIDI and audio events or regions, quan-
tizing individual MIDI notes, and copying and
pasting measures and song sections in Grid
mode.
Open Ended Record Allocation, Operation preference
Disk Usage window
Disk Usage window, selecting Text Only view
Material that is recorded without listening
to a click can still be aligned to bar and beat
boundaries in Pro Tools with Beat Detective
(see Chapter 28, “Beat Detective”), or by us-
ing the Identify Beat command to determine
the tempo (see “Identify Beat Command”
on page 689).