User Guide

EDITING AND NAVIGATION
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RESTORING A SELECTION
When you change the cursor position (with the mouse or keyboard) without
holding the Shift key down, you lose your selection and only the cursor is
displayed. If you want to return to the last selection, select the Toggle Selection
command under the Special menu or press the ‘S‘ key.
SHIFTING A SELECTION
Sometimes it is necessary to move a selection’s position without changing the
length of the selection.This can be accomplished in one of two ways.
The first is to use the mouse. Hold down the Shift key and grab the edge of the
selection. Now, when you move the mouse left or right, the selection will move
as a block and the length will be preserved.
The second way is more mathematical. Using the ACID Loop creation tools,
you can shift a selection forward or backward by the length of the selection.
This is very useful if you have exactly a beat or a measure selected and you
want to jump ahead to the next beat or measure. Select Shift Selection Left or Right
from the ACID Loop Creation fly-out menu under the Special menu and the
whole selection will jump forward or backward by the length of the selection.
USING THE OVERVIEW
While making data selections and navigating through sound files, you probably
noticed the overview (the thin bar directly underneath the title bar) change.
The overview represents the length of the entire sound file, as if you were
zoomed out all the way. From the overview, you can determine what section of
the entire sound file is being displayed, the data selection made, and the cursor
location.
GETTING THE WHOLE PICTURE
To view zooming using the overview:
1. Zoom out all the way on the TUTOR1 window (Zoom Out Full in the Data
Window shortcut menu) and select the waveform data corresponding to the
word “Wow.” Notice that the entire overview has brackets above and below
it, since the entire sound file is being displayed. Also notice how the
selection and the cursor are displayed on the overview.