Reference Manual

85 Arrangement View
Consolidating Several Clips Into a New Clip.
Suppose you have, by editing or improvising, come up with a layout of clips that sound good in
Arrangement Loop mode. Selecting that part of the Arrangement, for instance by using the Edit
menu’s Select Loop command, and then executing the Consolidate command creates a new clip
that can be treated as a loop. You can now, for instance, drag the clip edges to create more rep-
etitions. You might also want to drag the new loop via the Session View selector into a Session
View slot for real-time arrangement purposes.
When operating on audio clips, Consolidate actually creates a new sample for every track in
the selection. The new samples are essentially recordings of the time-warping engine’s audio
output, prior to processing in the track’s effects chain and mixer. Hence, the new sample incor-
porates the effects of in-clip attenuation, time-warping and pitch shifting, and of the respective
clip envelopes (page 267); however, it does not incorporate the effects. To create a new sam-
ple from the post-effects signal, please use the Export Audio/Video command (page 43).
The new samples can be found in the current Set’s Project folder, under Samples/Processed/
Consolidate. Until the Set is saved, they remain at the location specified by the Temporary
Folder (page 214).