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The Audio Window
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Removing Audio Files: To remove an audio file from
the current song, select its name in the Audio window and
press backspace. This does not delete the file from the
hard disk.
Creating Audio Files
Audio files are normally created by making a recording.
After a digital mixdown of regions in the Arrange window
a new audio file is also created (see section Digital Mix-
down from page 153 onwards).
Deleting Audio Files: In theory audio files are dis-
played and organized by theWindows operating system in
exactly the same way as all the other Windows files. You
can therefore delete or copy them in Windows Explorer.
However, this has the following disadvantages:
– If you delete an audio file you may not know if it is
needed in a song.
– If you accidentally delete audio files MAGIX midi
studio generation 6 warns you of this when you load
the song. In addition, there will still be items in the
Audio window and Audio sequences in the Arrange
window which originally referred to the missing audio
file and have therefore been “orphaned”. This detracts
from a clear overview of the song.
For this reason, it is safer to delete redundant audio files
in the Audio window. First, select the audio files which
you want to delete. Be careful, because once files have
been deleted they are gone for good. You cannot use the
Undo function to recover deleted audio files.
Choose Audio File > Delete File(s). You will see an alert
message informing you of the number of audio files about
to be deleted.
Click Cancel to abandon the deletion process, or click De-
lete to permanently delete the files.
Here too, you should make sure that the files about to be
deleted are not being used in any other songs.
Copying Audio Files
The Audio File > Copy File(s) function copies files to a dif-
ferent location on your hard disk (or other storage me-
dium). When you copy a file you can enter a new name in
the file selection box.
MAGIX midi studio generation 6 checks whether there is
enough space to copy the selected file(s) at the target loca-
tion. If there is already a file with the same name there,
MAGIX midi studio generation 6 asks whether you want
to replace it. MAGIX midi studio generation 6 also gives
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