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The Sample Editor
Cut, Copy and Paste
The Cut, Copy and Paste commands (on the Edit menu in
the Process tab of the Sample Editor Inspector or in the
main Edit menu) work according to the following rules:
• Selecting Copy copies the selection to the clipboard.
• Selecting Cut removes the selection from the clip and
moves it to the clipboard.
The section to the right of the selection is moved to the left to fill the gap.
• Selecting Paste copies the data on the clipboard into
the clip.
If there is a selection in the editor, this will be replaced by the pasted
data. If there is no selection, the pasted data will be inserted starting at
the selection line. The section to the right of the line will be moved to
make room for the pasted material.
The pasted data will be inserted at the selection line.
Delete
Selecting Delete (on the Edit menu in the Process tab of
the Sample Editor Inspector or in the main Edit menu or by
pressing [Backspace]) removes the selection from the
clip. The section to the right of the selection is moved to
the left to fill out the gap.
Insert Silence
Selecting “Insert Silence” (on the Edit menu in the Process
tab of the Sample Editor Inspector or in the Range sub-
menu of the main Edit menu) will insert a silent section with
the same length as the current selection, at the selection
start.
• The selection will not be replaced, but moved to the
right to make room.
If you want to replace the selection, use the “Silence” function instead
(see “Silence” on page 211).
Processing
The Processing features (on the Select Process menu in
the Process tab of the Sample Editor Inspector or in the
Process submenu on the Audio menu) can be applied to
selections in the Sample Editor, as can the effects (on the
Select Plug-in menu in the Process tab of the Sample Ed-
itor Inspector or in the Plug-ins submenu on the Audio
menu). See the chapter “Audio processing and functions”
on page 204.
Creating a new event from the selection using drag&drop
You can create a new event that plays only the selected
range, using the following method:
1. Make a selection range.
2. Press [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag the selection range
to the desired audio track in the Project window.
Creating a new clip or audio file from the selection
You can extract a selection from an event and either cre-
ate a new clip or a new audio file, in the following way:
1. Make a selection range.
2. Holding [Alt]/[Option], right-click to open the context
menu and select “Bounce Selection” from the Audio sub-
menu.
Provided that the “Popup Toolbox on Right Click” option in the Preferen-
ces dialog (Editing–Tools page) is activated, a right-click holding a mod-
ifier key brings up the context menu.
A new clip is created and added to the Pool, and another
Sample Editor window will open with the new clip. The
new clip will refer to the same audio file as the original clip,
but will only contain the audio corresponding to the selec-
tion range.
Working with regions
Regions are sections within a clip. One of the main uses for
regions is Cycle recording, in which the different “takes”
are stored as regions (see “Recording audio in cycle mode”
on page 75). You can also use this feature for marking im-
portant sections in the audio clip. Regions can be dragged
into the Project window from the Sample Editor or the Pool
to create new audio events. From the Pool, you can also ex-
port a region to disk as a new audio file.
Regions are best created, edited and managed in the
Sample Editor.