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Arranging in the master track
This chapter is about working with objects and track markers. Descriptions of the
individual control elements can be found further on in the „Track window“ (view page
34) chapter.
What is an object?
Objects provide you with a wave form-interpretation of your audio material. The
starting point of each object is related to one single point in the audio file. The length
of the object determines the length of the excerpt from the audio recording. So, an
object does not represent the audio material itself, it is just a replay command. While
editing objects you just define additional commands which will be executed in real
time each time you listen to the object. For this reason, the original audio material
never gets altered and nevertheless your personalized settings are permanently
saved. This kind of data treatment is known as "non destructive-editing".
As objects are merely replay commands and they only indicate which audio material
has to be played, you can move them to any desired position within the track window
or even delete them without changing the content of your audio file.
Objects are important for differentiated sound editing of single tracks or loops.
Objects are subdivisions of your audio material which can be edited separately.
Tracks are in contrast simple markers for an audio CD.
Objects can be cut into an arbitrary number of smaller objects, and they can be
moved to the master track or even deleted.
Should you move or delete an object in the track, all objects that appear after the
deleted object will move up one position including their track markers, so that the
pause between the songs will be preserved.
You do not have to move the objects themselves to change the sequence of the
songs. As the following objects will all move up one position, this would only be
possible using a second track. It is much easier to move the corresponding track
markers in front of or behind another track marker. Doing this will regroup the
corresponding objects. The most comfortable solution is to use the arrow keys in the
CD track list.
Project
The project (*.vip file) contains all data MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2013 uses. It does
not contain audio data but only the names of the imported and recorded audio data
and the saved locations on the hard drive, all edits, reductions and most effects
processing. Furthermore, the object display on the tracks is referred to as a project.