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☛ Reload Soundbite affects all instances of a
soundbite in a Digital Performer file. In other words,
reloading affects the soundbite and all “clones” of
that soundbite wherever they may exist in audio
tracks.
Yo u’ l l n o t i c e t h a t Reload Soundbite isn’t really going
to be used much if you don’t use any other
programs besides Digital Performer to work with
the audio file. However, any time that you edit
regions or audio data in an audio file, think about
what impact the editing has on any Digital
Performer files that contain soundbites from that
audio file.
Reloading all soundbites in an audio file at one
time
Often, you’ll have several — and usually many —
soundbites that originated the same audio file, and
you’ll need to reload all of them. Certainly a
tedious task if you had to do so one at a time. But
there is a shortcut for reloading all of them at once:
1 Command–double-click the name of the parent
audio file next to one of the soundbites in the
Soundbites window.
It doesn’t matter which soundbite you choose, as
long as its from the parent audio file you need to
reload from.
2 In the dialog box that appears, locate and select
the parent audio file.
If you are doing this procedure after having moved
the entire project from one hard disk location to
another, be sure to select the newly copied version
of the audio file — not the original.
That’s it. Digital Performer automatically reloads
all of the soundbites in the file.
If reloading fails
The Reload Soundbite command fails if Digital
Performer cannot find a region with the same
name as the soundbite in its parent audio file. Or, it
may not be able to find the parent audio file. If so,
Digital Performer warns you that this is the case
and asks you to select another region to replace the
soundbite. For information about replacing
soundbites, refer to the next section.
REPLACE SOUNDBITE
The Replace Soundbite command is similar to
Reload Soundbite but gives you more flexibility. It
allows you to replace a soundbite with any audio
file region—even an entirely different region from
another audio file. In addition to updating the
soundbite’s start and end pointers, Replace
Soundbite also updates the name if the soundbite is
being replaced by a region with a different name.
Just like Reload Soundbite, Replace Soundbite
replaces all instances of a soundbite in a Digital
Performer file. Here’s an example. Let’s say that you
recorded a vocal soundbite, named it Ye ah ! , and are
using it as an effect in a mix. You have placed it
fifteen or twenty times throughout the mix. During
the course of the session, you decide that you
would like to replace all the Ye a h ! ’ s with a different
soundbite that you recorded and named Hey!
Replace Soundbite makes substitutions like this
easy.
To replace a soundbite:
1 Select the soundbite that you wish to replace.
These soundbites
all belong to the
same parent
audio file called
“Gtr Leads-13”.
Command/Ctrl-double click the
audio file name to reload all sound-
bites from the file.