The Quick Way To Create New Tracks In Pro Tools - In Less Than A Minute

Summary of the video (Pro Tools track creation shortcuts)

The video demonstrates a fast workflow for creating new tracks in Avid Pro Tools using mouse double-clicks combined with keyboard modifiers.

Quick track creation shortcut

• Hold Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) and double-click to create an audio track.

Track type modifiers

• Alt: creates an instrument track
• Control / Start: creates an auxiliary track (Aux)
• Shift: creates a master track

Repeat last track type

• If you double-click without any modifier, Pro Tools creates the same type of track you created last time.
  • Example: audio track → next unmodified double-click also creates an audio track.

Track width = number of channels

• The track width determines how many channels the track has.
• Example behavior:
  • Creating a mono audio track produces mono versions.
  • Creating a stereo (or other multichannel type) produces the corresponding versions that match the track width/type.

Main speaker/source

• The speaker is not clearly identified in the provided subtitles (no name shown).