DigiNews Tips & Tricks: September 2007

By David Gould and Steven Webb
Pro Tools 7.3 for HD, LE and M-Powered systems has a handy hidden feature that isn’t documented anywhere! Make it easier to manage your sessions and grouping tasks by coloring tracks and channels. Here’s how:

• Open the color palette by double-clicking any track's colour label or by opening from the window menu
  
  
• For Mac OSX hold the following keys: Command+Control+Option
  
  
• For Windows hold the following keys: Control+Start+Alt
  
  
• Now using the mouse, click, hold and drag in the color palette (Dragging up will make the tracks go darker in relation to the existing track color, dragging down will make the tracks go lighter in relation to the existing track color)
  

You will now see the colour of your Pro Tools Mixer and Edit pages change in intensity, looking similar to this:





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