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CHAPTER 6. ARRANGEMENT VIEW 88
Consolidating Several
Clips Into a New Clip.
Suppose you have, by editing or improvising, come up with a layout of clips that sound
good in Arrangement Loop mode. Selecting that part of the Arrangement, for instance by
using the Edit menu's Select Loop command, and then executing the Consolidate command
creates a new clip that can be treated as a loop. You can now, for instance, drag the clip
edges to create more repetitions. You might also want to drag the new loop via the Session
View selector into a Session View slot for real-time arrangement purposes.
When operating on audio clips, Consolidate actually creates a new sample for every track
in the selection. The new samples are essentially recordings of the time-warping engine's
audio output, prior to processing in the track's effects chain and mixer. Hence, the new
sample incorporates the effects of in-clip attenuation, time-warping and pitch shifting, and
of the respective clip envelopes; however, it does not incorporate the effects. To create a
new sample from the post-effects signal, please use the Export Audio/Video command.
The new samples can be found in the current Set's Project folder, under Samples/Processed/
Consolidate. Until the Set is saved, they remain at the location specied by the Temporary
Folder.