Specifications

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Deleting Unused Portions of Audio Files (Erase Unused)
“Erase Unused” allows you to “trim” down your Audio files so that they only con-
tain the sections actually referenced by that file’s segment. This helps you maintain
as much free space on the hard disk(s) as possible.
The idea behind this is that hard disk space is most often precious, and recorded si-
lence (for example) takes up as much hard disk space as recorded “noise”. When
you adjust Start and End Points in segments to “hide” the sections of audio you
don’t want to hear, you are still using up valuable disk space for those unheard bits.
To “fix” this, use Erase Unused.
Which Parts of the Files are considered Unused?
Unused portions of a file are the sections not played back by any segment in the
“Pool”.
This means that even if the segment isn’t used anywhere in the Song (which you
can tell by looking at the speaker icon beside the segment – unused segments have
no number) the section of the file that the segment plays is considered to be in
use.To avoid keeping a lot of unnecessary audio sections, the program therefore au-
tomatically performs a “Purge Segments” (see page 219) before the actual “Erase
Unused” operation.
Applying Erase Unused
● Erase Unused changes the contents of one selected audio file. If you use the
file in another Song, or if you want to be able to go back to the original re-
cording, make sure you have a copy of the file before you begin!
1. Select either the file or one of it's segments.
This command works on “one sound file at a time”. For this function to work,
two criteria have to be fulfilled:
• The audio file must be used by at least one Event somewhere in the Song.
• There must be some section of the audio file that isn’t used by any Segment
(otherwise there’s nothing to erase, right?).
These segments
are each used in
one place in the
Song.
These segments are
not used in the
Song, and will
automatically be
purged (deleted).