Specifications

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To compact an audio file:
1 Choose Select Unused > Regions from the Au-
dio Regions List pop-up menu. All regions that
have not been placed in a track in the current
session are highlighted in the Audio Regions
List.
2 To remove all of these unused audio regions,
choose Clear Selected from the Audio Regions
List pop-up menu. When the dialog appears,
choose Remove.
3 In the Audio Regions List, select the region or
regions you want to compact.
4 Choose Compact Selected from the Audio Re-
gions List menu.
5 Enter the amount of padding in milliseconds
that you want to leave around each region in
the file.
6 Click Compact to compact the file or Cancel
to cancel the command.
Once the Compact operation has been com-
pleted, the session is automatically saved.
Naming and Displaying
Regions
A typical session can become quite busy with
many tracks and dozens of regions. There are a
number of things you can do, however, to keep
track of and manage a session’s regions, which
include:
• Renaming existing regions
• Specifying how auto-created regions are
named
• Hiding auto-created regions
• Removing unused regions
Renaming Regions
In the course of a session you can rename re-
gions to give them more descriptive names, or
merely to shorten or simplify an existing name.
When renaming a region that was auto-created
from an edit, the region becomes a user-defined
region and is displayed in the Regions List when
auto-created regions are hidden.
Perhaps the easiest way to rename a region, if it
resides in a track, is to double-click it with the
Grabber. However, if the region does not yet re-
side in a track, or if you want to rename several
regions, use the Rename Selected command.
To rename one or more regions:
1 If you will be renaming an auto-created re-
gion, make sure to select Display > Auto-Created
Regions.
2 Select one or more regions to be renamed in
either the Audio or MIDI Regions List.
3 Choose Rename Selected from the Regions
List pop-up menu.
4 When prompted, enter a new name for the re-
gion. If a whole-file audio region was selected,
specify whether to rename just the region, or
both the region and the disk file.
If the Editing Preference for “Regions List
Selection Follows Track Selection” is en-
abled, you can highlight a region in the Re-
gions List by selecting it in a track.
Rename Selected dialog