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Editing Audio
Basic Audio Editing
To Scale a Single Track or Bus Using the Audio Scale Ruler
• In the track in which you want to change the audio scale, click in the Audio Scale Ruler and drag.
Drag up to increase the audio scaling. Drag down to decrease the audio scaling.
To Show or Hide the Audio Scale Ruler
1. Right-click in the Clips pane.
2. Select View Options from the menu that appears.
The Track View Options dialog appears.
3. In the Track View Options dialog, click the Show Audio Scale check box and click OK.
Splitting Audio Clips
You can split long audio clips into shorter ones. This lets you extract and rearrange individual
sounds, adjust timing and alignment, and apply effects selectively. Audio clips can be split using the
Scissors tool in the Track view or with the Split command.
To Split Clips with the Scissors Tool
1. If necessary, zoom-in in the Track view and use the Scrub tool to determine where you want to
make a split.
2. If you want the split to be made on a note or measure boundary, a marker, or by an event, open
the Snap to Grid dialog, make the appropriate settings and click the Snap to Grid button to turn
on the Snap to Grid.
3. Click the Scissors tool button on the Track view toolbar.
4. Click once to make a single split, or to make two splits, click where you want the first split, drag
within a clip and release to make a second split.
To Split Clips with the Split Command
1. Select the clip you want to split.
2. Right-click the selected clip and select Split from the menu.
The Split Clips dialog appears.
3. In the Split Clips dialog, select from the following options.
Option Description
Split At Time Specify the time at which you want to split the clip and the time format.
Split Repeatedly Specify the first measure at which you want to split the clip in the Starting
At Measure field and the intervals at which you want to split the clip in the
And Again Every field.
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