User Manual

EDITING BASICS
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Selecting regions
There are many ways to select regions. For a
summary, see “Selecting a time range” on
page 529.
Applying Edit and Region menu operations
After you’ve selected a region, you can choose any
command from the Edit or Region menu. Edit
menu commands affect audio in the same way as
MIDI. See chapter 47, “Edit Menu” (page 551) and
chapter 48, “Region Menu” (page 569) for details
about these basic commands. Region menu
commands affect audio as discussed below.
Region menu exceptions for audio
The Change Duration command does not affect
soundbites. To change a soundbite’s duration, see
“Graphic time stretching of audio” on page 379 and
chapter 82, “Scale Time” (page 923).
The Transpose command has the ability to
transpose the pitch of audio, with or without
formant correction. For details, see “Transpose” on
page 570 and chapter 81, “Transposing Audio”
(page 911).
Some Region menu commands that affect timing
(such as Retrograde) only affect the placement of
soundbites—that is, the attack time of the
soundbite. They do not have an effect on the audio
data within the soundbite. For example, if you use
Reverse Time over a region containing a soundbite,
the soundbite audio data does not play backwards
like a reversed sample. Instead, the placement of
the soundbite within the region is modified, along
with other soundbites and MIDI note data,
according to their attack times within the region.
To reverse the audio in the soundbite, you would
use choose Audio menu> Plug-ins> Reverse. For
details about Reverse Time, Retrograde, and other
Region menu commands for MIDI, see chapter 48,
“Region Menu” (page 569). For information about
reversing audio, see “Reverse” on page 78 in the DP
Plug-in Guide.
TRACK GROUPS
Digital Performer allows you to create an unlimited
number of track groups, and tracks can be linked
for mixing, editing, both, or for a customized set of
operations that you specify. Tracks can be a
member of more than one group. Groups can also
be “nested” within each other. For further details,
see “Track Groups” on page 178.
VIEW MENU
The View menu provides many useful shortcuts for
controlling what you see in Digital Performer’s
windows and how information is displayed.
For details about the Filters command, see “View
Filter” on page 314.
Show/Hide Tracks
The View menu provides several commands for
showing and hiding tracks in any Digital
Performer editor that can display multiple tracks,
such as the Sequence Editor, Tracks List, Mixing
Board or QuickScribe window.
When using these commands, it can be useful to
open the Track Selector to get an overview of the
results.
☛ To zero in on just the tracks you want, it can be
useful to start out with all tracks hidden: choose
View menu > Hide Tracks > All.
Each Show/Hide Track command provides a sub-
menu that allows you specify which tracks you
wish to show or hide. For example, if you choose
Show Tracks > Play Enabled, all currently play-
enabled tracks will be shown.
Showing and hiding is a one-shot operation; in
other words, these commands are not checkable
(i.e. “sticky”). Instead, they produce a result for the
currently active (focused) window, at the moment
you choose the command. You can then further