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Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement 329
Note: You cannot make an audio region longer than the underlying audio file when
using either of the resize operations covered above.
Adjusting the Start Point of Audio Regions
Adjusting the start point of an audio region may also move the region anchor point,
thus affecting its temporal reference point, and making it play back out of sync with
other tracks. It is better, and simpler, to move the entire region to the right, if you want
playback to start later.
If you actually want to cut out the early portion of the region, you have several options,
such as:
 Marquee selection and muting.
 Cutting and muting or deleting.
 Creating a new region, and resizing it in the Audio Bin window.
 Using the Sample Editor to resize, and replace, the Arrange region.
To resize an Arrange audio region from the Sample Editor:
m Directly edit the start and end markers (in the Region row at the bottom of the Sample
Editor window); this affects the size of the corresponding Arrange region immediately.
To resize and replace an Arrange audio region from the Sample Editor:
1 Select the desired portion of the audio file in the Sample Editor by dragging directly
across the waveform display.
2 Choose Edit > Selection → Region (or use the corresponding key command).
This enables you to define an audio passage as a selection, and then convert it to a
region, in place of the originally selected region.
You can also do the reverse …
To resize the Sample Editor selection from the Arrange:
1 Select the desired region in the Arrange (presumably of a different length to the
current Sample Editor selection).
2 Click the Sample Editor title to make sure that the Sample Editor has key focus
3 Choose Edit > Region → Selection (or use the corresponding key command).