For a while now, Clip Gain has given Pro Tools users the ability to modify the level of audio regions directly in the Edit Window, and the new Clip Effects extend this idea considerably. Each audio clip can now, in effect, have its own mixer-style processing derived from Avid’s Channel Strip plug-in, incorporating equalisation, compression and an expander/gate.

There are also changes to the way clips behave during editing. Previously, if you moved a clip over the top of another, then moved it away again, a gap would be left; now, Pro Tools ‘remembers’ what’s underneath. It is now also possible to enable a behaviour whereby moving one clip wholly on top of another automatically ‘pushes’ the obscured clip onto a new Playlist. One obvious context in which this behaviour makes sense is when loop or cycle recording, where it means that each subsequent take is automatically allocated to its own Playlist.