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Using Audio in the Arrange Window
Erasing recordings: When you erase a region that you have
just recorded (since opening the song), MAGIX midi stu-
dio generation 6 will ask if you also want to erase the cor-
responding Audio File. This is a good way to avoid using
up unnecessary space on the hard drive by storing bad
takes and unwanted recordings.
If the recording was made before the song was loaded for
the current session, this question does not appear. This
prevents you accidentally deleting valuable recordings.
Pressing backspace will only remove the region from the
Arrange area. If you want to delete the corresponding Au-
dio Files from the hard disk, you can do so by choosing
Audio File > Delete File(s) in the Audio window.
Copying Regions
Creating New Regions: Copies of regions are made ex-
actly the same way as MIDI sequences—by dragging them
while holding down ctrl. This automatically creates a new
region in the Audio window. The new region will retain
the same name as the old one, but will be numbered se-
quentially.
This allows you to alter the start and end-points of the cop-
ied region independently of the original. It is comparable
to a genuine copy of a MIDI sequence, which is created in
the same way.
Making Multiple Copies of Regions: By choosing
Functions > Edit > Repeat Objects… you can make multi-
ple copies of both audio regions and MIDI sequences.
Further details of this function are described in section
Making Multiple copies of Sequences.
Another way to make regions repeat is to use the Loop pa-
rameter in the Region parameter box (see section Loop
from page 145 onwards).
The command Functions > Sequence Parameter > Turn
Loops to Real Copies changes the loops into audio regions.
The arrange objects which are created, however, represent
the same region. Thus any alterations in the length of the
region or audio material affect all objects.
Moving Regions
You can grab regions in the Arrange window with the
mouse and move them around just like MIDI sequences.
Movements are made in steps of one beat (e.g. quarter
notes—see below).
If you hold down alt while moving sequences, you can
move them in steps of one division (in sixteenths, for ex-
ample).
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