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Tutorial 5—Editing Audio
1. Click and drag the maracas clip to measure 18 (the Snap Grid is still set
to Measure).
The Drag and Drop Options dialog appears. The Drag and Drop
Options dialog box has options for how the clip you are dragging affects
existing clips. Since the clip we are dragging is not being moved onto
an existing clip, we can just accept the default setting. For more about
the Drag and Drop Options dialog, see Drag and Drop Options dialog.
2. Click OK to accept the default settings.
The clip now appears at the 18th measure.
3. Now move the congas clip to the 18th measure by using the same
method.
Now let’s loop the two percussion clips to make copies of them by using
their Groove clip characteristics:
1. Move the cursor over the end of the maracas clip until a blue line (clip
handle) appears at the edge of the clip and the cursor looks like this .
2. When the cursor changes, click the end of the clip and drag it to the
right until you have created repetitions of the clip through the end of
measure 28.
3. Copy the congas clip the same way until it reaches the end of measure
28.
Next Step: Slip-editing a Clip.
Slip-editing a Clip
Solo the two guitar tracks and listen to the project. We are going to combine
these two tracks and create an automatic crossfade between them. Before
we do, we have to hide the beginning of the second guitar part so it doesn’t
affect the crossfade. We’ll do this using slip-editing.
1. Click the Snap to Grid button to turn off Snap to Grid. The Snap to Grid
settings control slip-editing as well as drag and drop.
2. Move the cursor over the beginning of the second guitar clip.
3. When the cursor turns into a rectangle and a blue line appears at the
edge of the clip, click and drag the beginning of the clip until you have
reached the beginning of the waveform.