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Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement 349
Handling Overlapping Notes in Divided MIDI Regions
If any notes in a divided MIDI region overlap other notes by more than a 1/16 note, the
following dialog will appear:
 Keep: Click to leave all notes unaltered. The MIDI region is cut as expected, but you
can end up with notes in the left-hand half (earlier region) that are much longer than
the MIDI region containing them. Such notes will play normally, unless Clip Length is
enabled (see “Note Handling Options When Changing MIDI Region Lengths” on
page 330).
 Shorten: Truncates (shortens) all overlapping notes, so that they end at the point
where the original MIDI region was divided.
 Split: Divides overlapping notes across the two MIDI regions; two notes are created,
with the same pitch and velocity as the original, and with the same total length as
the original note.
About Zero Crossings When Dividing Audio Regions
The Audio > Search Zero Crossings setting in the local Arrange menu has no effect
when dividing audio regions, using any of the methods outlined above.
Audio > Search Zero Crossings, when enabled, only applies to alterations of the start or
end point of a region, not divide operations.
If you want to automatically divide an audio file into multiple regions, make use of the
Strip Silence function.
Dividing Audio Regions With Strip Silence
The Audio > Strip Silence function in the Arrange menu launches a window which
allows you to slice an audio recording into different audio regions. This division is based
on analysis of amplitude levels within the audio file. A detailed description of this
function can be found in Chapter 22, “Removing Silent Passages From Audio Regions,”
on page 549.