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Glossary
Punch, punch-in, punch-out (Drop in/out): Going into and
out of record to record over a section of an existing record-
ing.
Quantization: Time-correction of note positions by mov-
ing them to the nearest point on a selectable grid.
Region: Chosen area of an audio file which is registered in
the Audio window for use in the song and, can be placed
in the Arrange window on the audio tracks, just like a se-
quence can be placed on the MIDI tracks. The region
could be the whole length of the audio file, or any portion
thereof. A region is created automatically after every audio
recording.
Replace: Operating mode where a new recording deletes
the previous one (like a tape machine).
Rubber band: Technique for selecting items by click-hold-
ing the mouse, and lassoing it over a group of adjacent
items.
Scroll bars and scroll box: Gray beam at the edge of a win-
dow with a movable box inside it for adjusting the section
of a song displayed in the window.
Screenset: Storage location for the layout of the various
MAGIX midi studio generation 6 windows. Each MAGIX
midi studio generation 6 song may store up to 90
Screensets.
Scrubbing: On tape machines: manually moving the tape
across the tape head. In a sequencer: manually moving the
song position line through the song, triggering playback of
the MIDI events.
Selecting: Choosing. Selected objects are displayed in in-
verted colors.
Sends: Abbreviation for auxiliary sends (used for effect or
monitor sends).
Sequence: A collection of MIDI events which is shown in
the Arrange window as a horizontal beam with a name on
it.
SMPTE: Standard for time coding in a specialized sound
signal used for synchronizing different devices. There are
six formats. Acronym for the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers. Specifies the “counter position”
of a “SMPTE clock”. Composed of hours, minutes, sec-
onds and frames. The MIDI variation of SMPTE is MIDI
Time Code (MTC).
Song Position Line: Vertical line in the Arrange, Matrix and
Score windows which indicates the current song position.
It can be grabbed with the mouse and moved (see scrub-
bing).