Editing a track or part of a track
Want to reuse a cool lick several times within the same track? Curious
to hear what it would sound like to preview a few bars of your second
track while the first track in your Playlist is still playing? No problem—just
drag segments around, cut segments out, or copy them to other parts of
the track.
If you're creating a fitness podcast, another reason you might want
to edit a track is to make sure that it uses 32-count phrases only. A
musical phrase containing eight measures of music typically equals 32
beats—the perfect building block for fitness choreography. With RecordForAll,
it's easy to cut or add beats and measures so that your students will
always end up on the right foot.
RecordForAll uses non-destructive editing on
the tracks. This means that you can remove and copy sections of the track
without impacting the sound file. This behavior is unlike most wave editors,
which actually manipulate the sound file itself. The benefit of non-destructive
editing is that you can always return to the original sound file, no matter
how much you manipulate it in RecordForAll. Another benefit is that it is
much faster and produces much smaller working files because you are dealing
only with a set of pointers into the music and not the actual music data
itself. Remember also that RecordForAll will undo just about anything you
do in the Playlist and Timeline.
See below
To
drag a segment of a track to a new location
To
insert a copy of a segment at a new location
To
replace one segment with a copy of another segment
To
cut a segment of a track
See also
Working
with Primary and Overlay tracks
Using Snap To Beat
To drag a segment of a track to a new location
In the Timeline, point
to the title bar at the top of a track segment.
Text appears that says Adjust Segment Position.
Drag the segment to the position you want, and
release the mouse button.
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About
dragging and dropping
RecordForAll
does not allow you to drag a track's Outro to come before its Intro. You
can drag a copied segment elsewhere only within its own track, but not
into any other track. In
addition to dropping segments within the boundaries of the actual track,
you can drop segments within the empty spaces before and after a track.
(However, you can't drop anything before the beginning of the first track
on your Playlist.) The Snap To Beat feature
of RecordForAll affects where you place the cursor to select and drag. See
Using Snap To Beat for more information. |
To insert a copy of a segment at a new location
In Primary tracks, pasting at the blinking cursor means that you're
inserting the copied material. You're essentially moving the existing
music or track out of the way to accommodate the new music or track. In
Overlay tracks, pasting at the blinking cursor means that you're pasting
on top of the current track.
In the Timeline, select
the segment you want to copy.
The selected segment has a highlighted title bar.
Right-click the segment,
and choose Copy.
Click in the track where you want to paste the
copied segment.
Right-click the segment, and choose Paste.
To replace one segment with a copy of another segment
In Primary tracks, pasting over a highlighted section first removes
the highlighted section and then inserts the new section.
In the Timeline, select
the segment you want to copy.
The selected segment is indicated by a highlighted header.
Right-click the segment,
and choose Copy.
Drag across a portion of the track that you want
to replace with the copied segment.
Right-click the segment, and choose Paste.
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About
cropping
You
can paste copied material elsewhere only within its own track—not into
any other track. In
addition to pasting segments within the boundaries of the actual track,
you can paste segments within the empty spaces before and after a track.
(However, you can't paste anything before the beginning of the first track
on your Playlist.) |
To cut a segment of a track
In Primary tracks, cutting a segment removes that segment and does not
leave a space where you cut—in other words, it closes the gap. In Overlay
tracks, cutting a segment leaves a space where you cut—in other words,
it leaves a gap.
In the Timeline, either
click a segment to select (the selected segment is indicated by a highlighted
header) or drag across a portion of a track to highlight it.
Right-click the segment, and choose Cut.