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Showing or hiding a timeline volume envelope

You can display the timeline volume envelope to set the volume levels, and hide it from the view again when you are done, if desired.

Hiding the volume envelope does not affect playback. The points that you set still automate the volume, even though the envelope is

not visible. To show the timeline volume envelope, from the View menu, choose Show Volume Envelope (or press V). Choose this

option again to hide the envelope at any time. When you display this envelope for the first time, it appears as a straight blue line in the

center of your timeline.

Locking envelopes to events

Envelopes extend for the length of a layer and are independent of the events on a layer. This means that the envelope remains in place

when you move the events. Carefully adjusted envelopes can be set to move with the underlying events, thus preserving the timing. If

you want envelope points and their position to move with events as they move along the timeline, use the Lock Envelopes to Events

option on the Options menu to toggle this lock on and off.

Grouping events

CD Architect software allows you to create groups to lock events together. Once you create a group, you can move all the events in the

group as a unit and apply event-specific edits at the same time.

You can still edit properties of individual events within a group without affecting the other events in a group.

Creating a new group

Grouping is useful when you want to preserve timing of events and move events together along the timeline.

Select the events you want to group. For more information, see Selecting multiple events on page 45.

From the Edit menu, choose Group, and choose Create New from the submenu.

Adding an event to an existing group

Right-click an event in the existing group, choose Group from the shortcut menu, and choose Select All from the submenu to

select all of the members of the group.

Press Ctrl and click the event to be added to the group.

Right-click the event, choose Group from the shortcut menu, and choose Create New from the submenu.

Note:

Events can only be in one group at a time. Adding an event to an existing group essentially clears the old group and creates a new

one that includes all of the selected events.

Removing events from a group

You can remove individual events from a group without affecting the other members of the group. An event you remove from the group

is not deleted from the project and remains on the timeline.

Select the event you want to remove from the group.

From the Edit menu, choose Group, and choose Remove From from the submenu. The event is removed from the group. The rest

of the grouped events remain intact.

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