Reference Guide

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Basic audio editing
Editing audio
To scale a single track or bus
To scale a single audio track, follow the instructions in the following table.
To undo audio scaling
• Press ALT+Z.
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
Click the Track view View menu, point to Display and choose Show Audio Scale.
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
Split tool in the Control Bar or with the Split command.
To do this Do this
Increase/decrease the scale of
individual stereo or mono tracks
There are several ways to increase or decrease the size of an individual
track’s or bus’s waveform:
• Press CTRL+ALT+UP/DOWN ARROW keys
• Click and drag vertically in the track’s Audio Scale Ruler.
When you click and drag in the Audio Scale ruler of a track, your cursor
looks like this:
• Select the Zoom tool, hold the SHIFT key and drag around the clip
you want to zoom in on.
Restore a track to minimum scale Double-click in the track’s Audio Scale Ruler.
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