M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 371)

Chapter 18: Record Setup 353
3 Do one of the following:
• Click in the Tempo field so it becomes
highlighted and tap the “T” key on your
computer keyboard repeatedly at the new
tempo.
– or –
• If the Use MIDI to Tap Tempo option is en-
abled in the MIDI Preferences, click in the
Tempo field so it becomes highlighted and
tap in the tempo by playing a note repeat-
edly at the new tempo on your MIDI key-
board controller.
To compute the new tempo, Pro Tools averages
the last eight (or fewer) taps to determine the
correct tempo. The computed BPM value ap-
pears in the Transport window’s Tempo field.
To lock in the new tempo:
„ Take Pro Tools out of Manual Tempo mode by
clicking the Tempo Ruler Enable (Conductor)
button, then set the default tempo for the Song
Start Marker to the new tempo.
Record Modes
For recording audio, Pro Tools provides the fol-
lowing Record modes:
• Normal (Nondestructive)
• Destructive
• Loop
• QuickPunch
• TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD only)
• DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD only)
To select the Record mode, do one of the
following:
„ Select the Record mode in the Options menu.
If no Record mode is selected, Pro Tools is in
Normal (Nondestructive) Record mode.
– or –
„ Right-click the Record button in the Transport
and select the Record mode from the pop-up
menu.
The Record button changes to indicate the se-
lected Record mode as follows:
• Blank for Normal (Nondestructive)
• “D” for Destructive
• Loop symbol for Loop Record
• “P” for QuickPunch
• “T” for TrackPunch (Pro Tools HD only)
• “DP” for DestructivePunch (Pro Tools HD
only)
You can also cycle through the Pro Tools
record modes with the Transport stopped,
by Start-clicking (Windows) or Control-
clicking (Mac) the Record button.
Destructive Record mode enabled
When recording, you can preserve disk
space by removing unwanted record takes
(see “Removing Unwanted Regions” on
page 221) and compacting audio files (see
“Compacting an Audio File” on page 507).