Do you often find yourself taking hours to recreate settings in one Pro Tools session in another? When you go to record the second song in a project, do you struggle to remember how many tracks you made with which inputs and outputs, or when it comes to mixing do you forget which tracks you EQed or compressed?

If so, Import Session Data and Match Tracks are two features that you have to know about. Import Session Data allows you to bring in tracks and their settings from one Pro Tools session to another; Match Tracks allows you to copy the settings between sessions that have tracks with the same name.

Import Session Data can be found under the file menu, import - or with the shortcut option+shift+I on a Mac, or alt+shift+I on Windows. Match Tracks is a feature within Import Session Data.

I’ve made a short video demonstrating this, and how it can save you time when you need to quickly build a new Pro Tools session, or use the same settings in another Pro Tools session.