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2. When you place the Move Region Tool
cursor within the range selected in step 1,
it will turn into the double I-Beam Select
Region cursor. Use the Move Region Tool
to select the region that you wish to move.
3. When you place the Move Region Tool
cursor within the region selected in step
2, it will turn into the Move Region cursor.
Click and hold anywhere within the
selected region and move it forward or
backward in time as desired.
Tracked Dat a Management
To help manage the recorded audio data
required for time shifting, Auto-Tune 8
provides a convenient Data File Management
dialog that allows you to establish or move the
location of the data files, rename the folder
where they’re stored, as well as delete them if
they are no longer necessary.
The File Management System will also alert
you if the data files are not where Auto-
Tune 8 expects them to be and will provide
information to help you find them.
Before getting to the details, here are some
basic principles for managing your tracked
audio data files:
•
Most important: Unless you have a clear
reason for doing so, do not move or rename
any of Auto-Tune 8’s data files or the folders
they are stored in without using the Data
File Management Dialog described below.
That is, don’t just find the files on your
computer and manually change their names
or move them to another location. This will
cause Auto-Tune 8 to lose track of them.
You will still be able to use the Data File
Management Dialog to find them again, but
it will be an unnecessary annoyance.
•
If you will be moving your project to a
dierent computer, you must copy all of the
data files used by all instances of Auto-Tune
8 in the project and move them as well.
•
If you will be making an archival copy of
your project, copy all of the project’s Auto-
Tune 8 data files and save them with the
archive.
•
Each instance of Auto-Tune 8 that is used
for time shifting will have its own data
folder. So if, for example, you have instances
of Auto-Tune 8 on five separate tracks in
your project, you will have five data folders
associated with that project which must be
copied if the project is moved or archived.
•
Be sure to use the Data File Management
Dialog’s ability to rename data file folders
to make it easy to identify the project
and track the data is associated with. This
will save much time and hassle when you
need to copy them for moving or archival
purposes.
•
Practice good data housekeeping. Once you
no longer need particular data (because
you’ve bounced or frozen a track or have
finished and archived a project), use the
Data File Management Dialog to delete
it. This will prevent the messy build-up of
large, useless files on your computer.
The Data File
Management Button
Click this button to
display the Data File
Management dialog.
If Auto-Tune 8 is unable
to find previously recorded audio data at the
location it expects, the Data File Management
button will flash red to alert you to this
problem. If this happens, click the button and
the Data File Management dialog will appear
with information that should help you locate
the data (assuming it’s still around to be
located).
The Data File Management Dialog
The various data management options
available in the Data File Management Dialog
are dependent on whether or not you have
already tracked any audio using the Track
Pitch + Time function and on whether or not
Auto-Tune 8 has encountered any problem
accessing data at an expected location. We’ll
look at each of these situations in turn.