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The Sample Edit Window
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ing the switch marked with the “linked chain” symbol or
via the key command.
If you often work in Link mode, give this a try: open a
Sample Edit window and switch on Link mode. Now close
the window. MAGIX midi studio generation 6 now leaves
Link mode permanently on.
Double-click on the audio region you wish to view. You
can see straight away that the display in both windows is
linked.
The Detailed Waveform Display
The Zoom Tool: Just as in the other windows, there is a
zoom tool in the Sample Edit window toolbox (the magni-
fying glass). If you use this tool to draw a rectangle, the se-
lected area of the window will be magnified so that it fills
the whole screen. You can also repeat the action. Clicking
the mouse once (with the tool) returns you to the previous
zoom resolution.
You can access the zoom function even more conveniently
by pressing alt, if the pointer tool is selected. Before you
can draw a magnification box, you have to click on an
empty space in the window.
X- and Y-Axes Scales: The Y-axis has a vertical scale
showing the waveform amplitude in percentage units.
The X-axis (the time ruler) shows the course of the audio
file over time. This corresponds to the display in the other
time-based windows. The “Zero point” is represented by
“1 1 1 1”, but lengths are measured from “0 0 0 0”.
Don’t forget that this display format also affects the fig-
ures shown in the Info line and the selection parameter
field:
Absolute and Relative Time: The different axis scales
in the Sample Edit window can be displayed on the basis
of one of two different reference values:
– by reference to the time axis of the song (absolute posi-
tion)
– by reference to the beginning of the audio file (relative
position)
Relative Position: The units in the time axis (between the
Overview and the waveform display) will be displayed with
dotted lines when it is displaying the Relative Posi-
tion.You will be in this mode if you open the Sample Edi-
tor from the Audio window, or if the Sample Editor is in
Link mode, and you select a region in the Audio window.
The beginning the section is automatically assigned the
value zero, or in Bar/Beat terms, “1 1 1 1”. Please note that