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The Project window
Creating parts
Parts are containers for MIDI or audio events. If you record
MIDI, a MIDI part is automatically created, containing the
recorded events. You can also create empty audio or MIDI
parts and later add events to them.
There are two ways to do this:
• Draw a part on a MIDI or audio track with the Pencil tool.
You can also draw parts by pressing [Alt]/[Option] and using the Arrow
tool.
• Double-click with the Arrow tool on a MIDI or audio
track, between the left and right locator.
To add events to a MIDI part, you use the tools and func-
tions in a MIDI editor (see “The Key Editor – Overview” on
page 184). Adding events to audio parts is done in the
Audio Part Editor (see “Window overview” on page 139)
by pasting or by using drag and drop.
• You can also gather existing audio events into a part, by
using the “Events to Part” function on the Audio menu.
This creates an audio part containing all selected audio events on the
same track. To remove the part and make the events appear as indepen-
dent objects on the track again, select the part and use the “Dissolve
Part” function on the Audio menu.
Auditioning audio parts and events
Audio parts and events can be auditioned in the Project
window with the Play tool:
1. Select the Play tool.
Note that the Play tool and the Scrub tool share the same tool button. If the
tool icon on the toolbar doesn’t show a speaker symbol, first click on the
icon to select it, then click again and select “Play” from the pop-up menu.
2. Click where you want playback to start, and keep the
mouse button pressed.
Only the track on which you click is played back, starting at the click po-
sition.
3. Release the mouse button to stop playback.
Scrubbing
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio
by playing back, forwards or backwards, at any speed:
1. Select the Scrub tool.
Note that the Play tool and the Scrub tool share the same tool button. If the
tool icon on the toolbar doesn’t show a “scrub symbol”, first click on the
icon to select it, then click again and select “Scrub” from the pop-up menu.
2. Click at the desired position and keep the mouse but-
ton pressed.
The project cursor is moved to the position at which you click.
3. Drag to the left or right.
The project cursor follows the mouse pointer and the audio is played back.
The speed and pitch of the playback depend on how fast you move the
pointer.
You can adjust the responsiveness of the Scrub function
in the Preferences (Transport–Scrub page).
• Note that scrubbing can be quite a burden on your sys-
tem. To avoid playback problems, you will find the “CPU
Saving Scrub Mode” option in the Preferences (Transport–
Scrub page).
When you activate this option, scrubbing will be less demanding on the
processor. This can be very useful when scrubbing in a large project,
where the “normal” scrub behavior leads to processing overloads. When
“CPU Saving Scrub Mode” is activated, the effects are disabled for scrub-
bing and the resampling quality is lower.
Editing parts and events
This section describes techniques for editing in the Project
window. If not explicitly stated, all descriptions apply to both
events and parts, even though we use the term “event” for
convenience.
Ö When you are using the tools for editing, you can in
many cases get additional functions by pressing modifier
keys (e.g. pressing [Alt]/[Option] and dragging with the
Arrow tool creates a copy of the dragged event).
On the following pages, the default modifier keys are described – you
can customize these in the Preferences (Editing–Tool Modifiers page),
see “Setting up tool modifier keys” on page 271.
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When auditioning, the Main Mix bus is used.