User Guide
17.3. MIXER AND DEVICE CLIP ENVELOPES 229
17.2.5 Using Clips as Templates
As you are making creative use of clip envelopes, the clips containing them develop a life
of their own, independent of the original sample. You might wonder at a point: What does
this clip sound like with a different sample? This is easy to nd out by selecting the clip
so that it is displayed in the Clip View and dragging the desired sample from one of the
File Browsers, or the Session or Arrangement View, onto the Clip View. All clip settings,
including the envelopes, will remain unaltered; only the sample will be replaced.
Notice this procedure affects only the selected clip, whereas replacing a sample with the
Clip View's Replace button will affect all clips using that sample.
17.3 Mixer and Device Clip Envelopes
Clip envelopes can be used to modulate mixer and device controls. Since mixer and
device controls can also be controlled by the Arrangement's automation envelopes, this is
a potential source of confusion. However, clip envelopes differ from automation envelopes
in one important way: Whereas automation envelopes dene the value of a control at any
given point in time, clip envelopes can only inuence this dened value. This difference
allows the two types of envelopes to work together in harmony when controlling the same
parameter.
Imagine that you have recorded volume automation for an audio clip so that it gradually
fades out over four bars. What happens to your fade-out when you create a clip envelope
that gradually increases the mixer volume over four bars? At rst, your fade-out will become
a crescendo, as the clip envelope gradually increases the volume within the range allowed
by the automation envelope. But, once the decreasing automated value meets with the
increasing clip envelope value, the fade-out will begin, as automation forces the absolute
control value (and the operable range of the clip envelope) down.