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Working with projects
An audio region is a section within a clip with a length
value, a start time, and a snap point. Audio regions are
shown in the Pool and are best created and edited in the
Sample Editor.
Ö If you want to use one audio file in different contexts,
or if you want to create several loops from one audio file,
convert the corresponding regions of the audio 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.
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.
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
position.
3. Release the mouse button to stop playback.
Scrubbing audio
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio
part or event by playing back, forwards or backwards, at
any speed:
1. Select the Play tool and click a second time on the
icon.
A pop-up menu opens.
2. Select “Scrub”.
3. Click at the desired position of your audio event or
part and keep the mouse button pressed.
The project cursor moves to the position where you click. The mouse
pointer is not visible anymore.
4. Drag to the left or right.
The project cursor moves correspondingly and the audio is played back.
The speed and thus the pitch of the playback depend on how fast you
move the mouse.
You can adjust the volume of the Scrub function in the
Preferences dialog (Transport–Scrub page).
Ö When scrubbing with the mouse, insert effects are al-
ways bypassed.
Ö It is also possible to “scrub” all audio and video tracks
of your project with the Jog wheel and Shuttle Speed con-
trol on the Transport panel see “Playing back with the
shuttle speed control” on page 70.
Scrubbing can be quite a burden on your system. If play-
back problems occur, try deactivating the “Use High
Quality Scrub Mode” option in the Preferences dialog
(Transport–Scrub page). The resampling quality will then
be lower, but scrubbing will be less demanding on the
processor. This can be useful when scrubbing in large
projects.
Editing parts and events
This section describes techniques for editing in the Proj-
ect 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 de-
scribed – you can customize these in the Preferences dia-
log (Editing–Tool Modifiers page), see “Setting up tool
modifier keys” on page 347.
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When auditioning, the Main Mix bus is used.