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Playlists. What Playlists are in Pro Tools is the ability to go between all of our settings that we have that actually have another layer underneath that we can jump to. So let's say I've got everything that I'm working with here and I really like the Pass that I've done or I don't like the Pass that I've done and I'd like to just start everything again but I've got all my headphone sends and my plug-ins and everything's already set up. I don't want to have to go through and set all that back up again; my levels, pan, whatever I've done. I don't want to set that back up so Playlist affords me the ability to be able to go in and have all of those tracks that are set up to currently record and work with, to go into Record again but just disappear from my track and I can go back and get those at any time. So I just went to the left here of the actual track. I held down the Option or the Alt Key on Windows and chose New Playlist. So by doing that, now what I can do on the My Tracks is I can go in and start recording a brand new Pass. So I hit Pass 3. Now, I've got a new pass of audio. I could do this across all of my actual tracks and go into Record and I can keep various takes. So 6.9 we got the option that if we actually create new tracks later with our Playlist, what that's going to do is it's going to keep track of all the new playlists I've created. So I'm just going to create a new playlist real quick and then I'll show you that. So now I want to go back to what I had before. So what was on the previous playlist, I didn't hold down Option so this one is currently on Playlist 1. If I go up to the base, that's still on Playlist 2. So I'm going to hold down Option and then go to my different playlists. So there's my second playlist. Held down Option and everything jumped back to the first playlist. So this new one, track that I just recorded, if I click on this I don't have second playlist that I actually had started recording but since now with 6.9 and above, and I say now, it's been a long time. But with 6.9 and above we have the option to make our new playlist always update with our new tracks. Everything that I created. So if I jump into a new playlist and everything, say New one more time and then go into Record again, so here is my third pass of recording and see that that kept up with that. And again, if I create a new track now on this new track, it will have my individual playlist as I create these. So I'm going to say New Playlist one more time, come into my track and it updates to whatever my current setting was for playlist. So it automatically adds that extension of whatever the track name was plus the number. So other playlists, you can see all of the different tracks that I had and I can choose to show on here. So if I go to something like my Bass DI, I can go ahead and show that track on here, even though this wasn't originally the Bass DI track. So I've got an electric guitar selected in here. I'm going to go and say Piano 1. You can see that's showing me what was originally set up as the Piano 1. So kind of handy. Keep in mind that with our automation that we do, that's not changing with our playlist so if I have drawn in various automation or did various automation and I go to a new playlist, we'll go ahead and choose OK, you can see my volume stays with that. So whatever I had before. And again, that's advantageous so when I start recording, it at least keeps all my settings so I can do a new pass of audio to record onto that track. So pretty helpful. I'm going to go back to something else. So we'll say electric guitar on that and that's staying with my track so I'm choosing what I want to hear through this individual track itself. So that's working with our Playlists. The reason why you have Duplicate Playlist, that's really helpful especially when you're starting to edit and mess up a track. Rather than doing a save as, I'm working with drums is a common place to do that doing some Beat Detective stuff. I want to go back and forth between my settings. So now if I choose my other pass, those are the one and the same. So if I start messing things up when I highlight my tracks and remove things I can at least have something that I can jump back to. So that's what Duplicate's really helpful for. Keep in mind, if you do remove things on playlists, if you choose to delete your playlist, then you're not getting that back so that is destructive. If I go in and start saying, you know, I don't want any of these playlists, any audio that's on those and choose Delete, I can permanently remove any of the stuff that was on there. So I'm not going to be able to get those playlists back and all the settings that I have. The audio files themselves still stay in my Audio Regions Bin or my Regions Bin.