Editing while recording

A major shoutout goes to Oleg Pertsovsky and Slava Nesmeyanov, who developed and shared this technique with me (and permitted me to share it with you in this book). Editing while recording a track is typically not possible. In the previous recipe, we showed you how to edit a track as you listen to it, but due to the way audio is captured to disk, it is not possible to do the same thing to a track while it is being recorded. There are ways of achieving the same result using an alternate track as a proxy for your edit points. We’ll go over how to do this in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a Pro Tools session with three mono audio tracks. We will be performing the work as if you are recording someone as they speak, so you may do this with your own microphone if you have one, or you can simply record a blank track to simulate the workflow.

The commands in this recipe require Keyboard Focus to be active in the Edit window...