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Summary: The slip feature in Pro Tools is used to trim and adjust sound waves. Learn how to use the slip editing feature of Pro Tools with the tips in this free video on music recording software from a professional musician.
"The slip is basically how you're going to grab the audio files that you're working with. If you go into your session and you have slip on, it's going to let you really just move anywhere you want. You can grab anything, anywhere, up to any point. It's really just kind of like a free kind of drawing, you know. You can take this, I can go back to my volume and cut this part anywhere I want. I kind of just move it anywhere I want and do with it really anything I want. "I can show that this is on the waveform", I can really just bring this over here and move over here. Do all types of things. This is great for like trimming and things like that 'cause I can trim like right up to the point so I can cut off thing, I can cut off certain parts right here. "Let me see how this is group". I kind of just edit my waveforms you know, so they're like, I can get rid of all these extra space, center, and since this is not a structure, I can always bring it back."
eHow Article: Pro Tools Editing: Slip Feature