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Using Audio in the Arrange Window
Changing Start and End Points
You can shorten or lengthen any region by grabbing it by
its lower right hand corner with the mouse and dragging
it. You cannot make a region longer than its original audio
file. This means that all the other regions derived from that
region will be lengthened by the same amount.
Of course, the same goes for any changes you make to the
start point of a region. Such a change can be made by grab-
bing the lower left edge of the region with the mouse and
dragging.
You can edit start and end points much more accurately
with the Sample Editor, which can be opened by double-
clicking on the region. Simply slide the “S”and “E” mark-
ers to change the Start and End points of the region. While
moving the start point, use the ctrl-key to make sure that
the Anchor, and therefore the timing relative to the rest of
the arrangement, remains unchanged. Keep in mind that
the Anchor must be inside the region. If you wish to move
the start point to the right, first move it to the approximate
desired position while in the Arrange window. Then open
the sample editor and use the ctrl-key to move the start
point to the exact position.
Region Parameter Box
Name: Just as with MIDI sequences, the top line of the se-
quence parameter box is for giving a name to the region.
You can name several selected regions at once; the regions
are then given the same name and distinguished only by
different numbers at the end of the name. MAGIX midi
studio generation 6 inserts these numbers automatically
unless you deliberately leave a space at the end of the
name.
When you change the title of a region, the corresponding
region is also renamed in the Audio window.
Loop: As with MIDI sequences, you can use the loop para-
meter to set a region to loop automatically. The loop re-
peats until it reaches the next region on that track or the
end of the song. Don’t forget that these loops are based on
the sample grid of the region. This means that even if the
song tempo matches precisely, after a while the loop re-
peats may start to go out of sync. You can avoid this by set-
ting the end point of the region to an exact measure
boundary. In these cases, it may be better to use the Repeat
Objects function (section Edit Functions from page 97 on-
wards).