User Manual

SOUNDBITES WINDOW
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window as your “catalog” of audio data. It lists all of
the portions of audio that you are dealing with in
the file. It helps you save the ones you want to keep
and throw away the ones you don’t.
Sorting the soundbites list
The View by menu at the top of the Soundbites
window lets you sort soundbites by any criterion
shown in the list. For details, see “View By menu”
on page 37.
Auditioning soundbites with Audible Mode
There are two ways to audition (play back) a
soundbite in the Soundbites window:
1 Click the Audible mode button in the Control
Panel so that it is highlighted.
2 Click the name of the soundbite you wish to
hear.
3 To stop playback, wait for the soundbite to finish
playing, or click the mouse.
Alternatively, you can do the following, regardless
of whether the Audible Mode button is highlighted
or not:
1 Highlight the name of the soundbite you wish to
hear.
2 Option/Alt-click the Audible Mode button.
3 To stop playback, wait for the soundbite to finish
playing, or click the mouse.
Changing the audio output for auditioning
See “Specifying audio output for auditioning” on
page 323.
Renaming a soundbite
To rename a soundbite in the soundbites window,
Option/Alt-click its name.
Figure 3-10: Renaming a soundbite.
When you change the name of a soundbite, Digital
Performer updates the name of the corresponding
region in the audio file. For example, if you use the
Split command to create a new soundbite, it
appears in the Soundbites window with a name like
Soundbite.3. Digital Performer adds a new region
to the audio file region list called Soundbite.3 as
well. At this point, if you viewed the audio file’s
region list with third-party waveform editing
software, you would see Soundbite.3 in the audio
file’s region list. If you change the name of
Soundbite.3 to Low whistle in Digital Performer’s
Soundbites window, Digital Performer updates the
name of Soundbite.3 to Low whistle in the audio file
region list as well.
Lost soundbites
At times, Digital Performer may lose track of the
location of an audio file. For example, the audio file
may have been dragged to the trash since the
Digital Performer file was last saved. Or the hard
disk on which the audio file is located may be off
Audio data
Regions Playlists
Audio file
Phasor Loop
Phasor Loop-02