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Tutorial 6 – Editing your music
Selection
Let's start by opening the tutorial project Cakewalk Audio Demo.cwb that we used in earlier
tutorials.
One of the most important things to understand in order to edit your music successfully is selection.
Once you become familiar with selecting, the rest is easy. You typically need to have the appropriate
parts selected in order to make edits on them.
There are two aspects of selection:
• Time Range
• Tracks
Let's say you'd like to delete the second measure of a certain track. The time range specifies that the
edit will need to occur between measures 2 and 3. The track selection specifies what track's clips
will be deleted, while leaving its surrounding tracks unchanged.
In order to edit clips, you must set the track’s Edit Filter control to Clips.
Figure 26. Assign the track’s Edit Filter to Clips in order to edit clips with the global tools.
Let's explore some different ways to do this in a sample project. All of the tools described are
available in the Tools module in the Control Bar. For a complete description of each tool in the Tools
module, see “Tools” on page 389.
Figure 27. The Tools module.
Note: If you would like to try both of the following methods, select Edit > Undo after
completeting the first method. Doing so will revert the project to its previous state.