M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 727)

Chapter 34: Memory Locations 709
5 Click OK. The General Properties Memory Lo-
cation is created and appears in the Memory Lo-
cations window.
Creating Memory Locations On-the-Fly
When the Auto-Name Memory Locations When
Playing
option is enabled in the Editing Prefer-
ences page, Memory Locations can be created
during playback, without opening the New
Memory Location dialog. This option can also
be selected from the Memory Locations Win-
dow menu.
This capability is useful if you want to mark cer-
tain locations while listening during a record
pass, or if you want to mark frame locations
while viewing a video scene.
To create a Marker during playback:
1 From the Memory Locations Window menu,
select Default To Marker. This ensures that new
Memory Locations default to being Markers.
2 From the Memory Locations Window menu,
select Auto-Name Memory Locations.
3 For inserted Markers to have a Bar|Beat refer-
ence, make sure to set the Main Time Scale to
Bars|Beats.
4 Click Play in the Transport.
5 When the location is reached, press Enter on
the numeric keypad. A Marker is automatically
created and appears in the Markers ruler.
Auto-created Markers are named with increasing
numbers, for example, “Marker 1,” “Marker 2,”
and “Marker 3.”
When the Default To Marker option is deselected,
new Memory Locations default to whatever type
was last created. Therefore, if a Selection Mem-
ory Location was created last, it will be the type
that is created on-the-fly. In this case, the name
for the created Memory Location is based on the
start of the Edit selection using the time format
for the Main Time Scale (such as “2|2|305” or
“0:02.658”).
In the New Memory Location dialog, you
can Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Mac) any General Property to enable or
disable all properties. You can also Control-
click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac)
any property to toggle its state and the state
of all other General Properties.
When Use Separate Play and Stop Keys op-
tion is enabled in the Operation Preferences
page, it overrides using the Enter key to add
Memory Location markers. When this op-
tion is enabled, press Period (.) and then En-
ter on the numeric keypad to add a Memory
Location marker. The new marker is created
when you press Enter.