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Using Audio in the Arrange Window
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this does not change the position of the recording relative
to the time axis.
A small tip: if you wish, you can even define a small auto-
drop zone within a larger Cycle Zone (see below). This can
be handy if a player needs to re-record a difficult passage
in the middle of a song, and requires many attempts to get
it right.
Record and Pause Mode: If MAGIX midi studio genera-
tion 6 is in pause mode you can start audio recording by
clicking “Record Toggle”,“Pause” or ”Play”. Recording
then begins at the current song position.
Audio Cycle Recording: You can make audio record-
ings even when “Cycle” is switched on. A new track is cre-
ated for every cycle. All the tracks created are still played
via the same audio object. This prevents the tracks from
being played simultaneously.
If you stop recording just after the end of a full cycle, no re-
gion is created for the cycle which has just begun. How-
ever, the audio material is not lost, but is recorded after the
last region in the audio file.
The whole recording (during all cycles) is stored in a sin-
gle audio file. This audio file is split into regions which are
as long as the length of the cycle. The region for the previ-
ous cycle is automatically muted at the beginning of the
next cycle.
Audio Cycle Recording also works when you are simulta-
neously recording two channels (e.g. stereo tracks).
After recording, please take note… After you’ve made your
first audio recording in a song, you should not make any
further adjustments to the tempo of that song. Decide on
a tempo and all the changes in tempo well before the first
audio recording, and stick to it! Audio recordings have a
fixed playback rate and can only be matched to new tem-
pos if you’re prepared to go through a great deal of hassle.
The time compression/expansion algorithms currently
available only permit you to match audio to new tempos
when the tempo differences involved are relatively small;
if you try and use them to significantly change the tempo
of your audio recording, its quality may be significantly
compromised.
If you’ve made your audio recordings in real time, playing
them in over the top of, say, an existing MIDI arrange-
ment, we don’t particularly recommend that you move the
Anchor of any of your regions very often. You can make