User`s guide

Chapter 15: Working with Regions and Selections 177
To turn a selection into a region without
affecting the original region:
1 With the Selector, drag within an exist-
ing region to select the material for the new
region.
2 From the Grabber pop-up, choose the
Separation Grabber.
3 While pressing Option (Macintosh) or
Alt (Windows), drag the selection to the
new location, or to another track.
A new region containing the previous se-
lection is created and placed at the new lo-
cation. The original selection and region
remain intact.
Trim To Selection Command
The Trim To Selection command removes
data before and after a region or MIDI note
selection, leaving only the selection. This
command provides a handy means of
quickly removing all data in a region (and
in some instances the entire track) except
for the current selection.
To trim unwanted data from a region or note:
1 With the Selector, select a portion of a re-
gion or note (or a range of notes).
2 Choose Edit > Trim > To Selection to re-
move material outside of the selection.
Healing a Separation
The Heal Separation command returns sep-
arated regions to their original state—pro-
vided the regions are still next to each
other and their relative start/end points ha-
ven’t changed since the separation.
If you have trimmed or otherwise changed
the start or end points of the two regions,
or moved them further away from each
other, you won’t be able to repair them
with the Heal Separation command. It is
not possible to heal two regions created
from different audio files.
To heal a separation between two regions:
1 With the Selector, make a selection that
includes part of the first region, the entire
separation between the regions, and part of
the second region.
2 Choose Edit > Heal Separation.
If the regions won’t heal, there are other
ways to return the separated regions to a
single region.
◆ Delete one of the two separated regions
(make sure you’re in Slip mode so the gap
doesn’t close) and use the Trimmer to ex-
pand the remaining region to its original
length. For information on using the Trim-
mer, see “The Trimmer Tool” on page 180.
– or –
◆ Delete both of the separated regions and
drag the original region from the Regions
List to the original location. For informa-
tion on placing regions, see “Placing Re-
gions in Tracks” on page 178.
Dragging to another track with Separation Grabber