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The Project window
An audio clip does not necessarily refer to just one origi-
nal audio file! If you apply e.g. some processing to a spe-
cific section of an audio clip, this will create a new audio
file containing only this section. The processing will then
be applied to the new audio file only, leaving the original
audio file unchanged. Finally, the audio clip is automati-
cally adjusted, so that it refers both to the original file and
to the new, processed file. During playback, the program
will switch between the original file and the processed file
at the correct positions. You will hear this as a single re-
cording, with processing applied to one section only. This
feature makes it possible to undo processing at a later
stage, and to apply different processing to different audio
clips that refer to the same original file.
An audio event is the object that you place on a time po-
sition in Cubase AI. If you make copies of an audio event
and move them to different positions in the project, they
will still all refer to the same audio clip. Furthermore, each
audio event has an Offset value and a Length value. These
determine at which positions in the clip the event will start
and end, i.e. which section of the audio clip will be played
back by the audio event. For example, if you resize the au-
dio event, you will just change its start and/or end position
in the audio clip – the clip itself will not be affected.
Ö If you want to use one audio file in different contexts,
or if you want to create several loops from one audio file,
you should convert the corresponding regions of the au-
dio clip to events and bounce them into separate audio
files. This is necessary since different events that refer to
the same clip access the same clip information.