User Manual

AUDIO EDITING IN THE SEQUENCER
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Common audio editing functions
The functions below apply to all audio clip types.
Delete Unused Recordings
After you have edited your audio clips in the Comp Editor, there might be unused recordings left on Comp Rows that
you don’t plan to use. To reduce the file size of your song, you can choose to delete all unused recordings in one or
several audio clips.
D Select the clip(s) in the Clip Overview area in the Comp Editor, or select the clip(s) in the Arrange View, and
then select “Delete Unused Recordings” from the Edit menu or context menu.
All recordings that are not used in the clip(s) will be permanently deleted.
• If a clip is in Single Take Mode, only the selected Comp Row will be played back - all other Comp Rows are per
definition “unused”. However, there may still be Cuts and assigned Segments among these Comp Rows, visi-
ble and audible if you switch the clip to Comp Mode.
As a safety measure, if you use the “Delete Unused Recordings” function on such a clip, you will be asked to con-
firm that you really want to remove all Comp Rows other than the selected one.
• After deleting audio recordings, you will have to use the “Save and Optimize” function on the File menu to
minimize the Song file size - see “Saving and optimizing a Song”.
Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s)
You can bounce one or several Audio Clips to new Song Samples. You could then edit the samples in the Edit Sam-
ple window and then load into a sampler device for playback. Proceed as follows:
D Select the clips in the Clip Overview area in the Comp Editor, or select them in the Arrange View, and then se-
lect “Bounce > Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s)” from the Edit menu or context menu.
The Audio Clips are bounced to new Song Samples and named according to the Audio Clip name (if the clip was
named) or according to the Audio Track name with serial numbers. The bounced Audio Clips then end up as sam-
ple files in the Song Samples location in the Browser. Refer to “Sampling” for more details about sampling and
sample editing.
About the “Bounce Clip to Disk” function
The “Bounce > Bounce Clip to Disk” function on the Edit menu and clip context menu allows you to export the audio
of a selected clip to disk as a single WAV or AIFF file. This might be useful if you want to process an audio clip in an
external application and then re-import the clip to the track again. See “Bouncing Audio Clips” for more details.
Bouncing audio to MIDI notes
It’s possible to convert Single Take audio clips to note clips. This is especially useful for monophonic audio that can
be edited in Pitch Edit mode. But if you like to experiment you could try it on polyphonic audio as well. The result in
any situation will be a monophonic note clip on a default Subtractor instrument track.
D Select one or several Single Take audio clips in the Arrange View and select “Bounce > Bounce Audio Clips To
MIDI” from the Edit menu or context menu.
A Subtractor instrument track is automatically created for each of the audio tracks. On the Subtractor track(s) a
note clip for each of the selected audio clips are created.
D Alternatively, drag one or several Single Take audio clips and drop onto an Instrument track.
The audio clips are automatically converted into note clips as you drop them on the Instrument track. Once
dropped, you could play back the note clips using the present Instrument sound.