User Manual

CLIPPINGS
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Alternately, if you drop the clipping into the Track
Overview timeline or the Sequence Editor
timeline, the data will be dropped at the cursor’s
current timeline location. If the cursor is placed
over existing tracks, and the tracks in the clipping
are compatible with the target tracks (MIDI to
MIDI, audio to audio, etc.), then the clipping data
will be merged into the existing tracks.
If, instead, you wish to place the clipping data into
new tracks at the cursor’s timeline location,
position the cursor near the dividing line between
two tracks in the Sequence Editor or Tracks
Overview. You will see a gap appear between the
two tracks to indicate that you are inserting new
tracks, rather than merging into existing tracks.
Signal routing within a multi-track clipping
If the clipping file was created in Digital Performer
version 10 or later, then any signal routing between
the tracks within the clipping (using buses) is also
saved within the clipping file. Therefore, if you drag
and drop the clipping and create new tracks, the
signal path between the clipping tracks is
automatically re-created for you by DP in a way
that does not interfere with any buses already in the
project. New buses are created automatically, if
needed. (This does not apply to audio interface
output and input bundles, just bus bundles.)
If the clipping file was created in DP earlier than
version 10, then busing between tracks in the
clipping is not saved in the clipping, and DP will
leave tracks with bus outputs unassigned.
Soundbite and audio file clippings
Soundbite clippings, when dragged from a clipping
window, become soundbites. They can be dropped
anywhere in Digital Performer that soundbites can
be dropped. Both Soundbites and audio files show
up with a single-waveform icon in the clipping
window for mono files or a dual-waveform icon for
stereo files.
Plug-in effects clippings
You can select one or more plug-ins for a track in
the Mixing Board (they must be instantiated on the
same track) then turn them into a clipping (as
shown in Figure 70-32 on page 823) by either
dragging and dropping them into a clipping
window (as explained in “Plug-ins as clippings” on
page 823) or by choosing Edit menu> Copy to
Clipping Window.
Saving sequences and songs as clippings
You can select a sequence or song in the Chunks
window and turn it into a clipping by choosing Edit
menu> Copy to Clipping Window.
Selecting clippings
To select a single clipping, click its name. To select
several clippings, drag across their names, or shift
click each one.
Auditioning clippings
To audition a clipping, double click the clipping. To
audition multiple clippings, select them as
described above and then double-click one of the
highlighted clippings.
If you are auditioning audio clippings and don’t
here anything, you may have soundbites whose
parent audio file has been deleted, or they might
not match the current sample rate.
In the case of MIDI data, you may not have a MIDI
device connected properly. Digital Performer
attempts to play MIDI clippings on the devices that
they were originally assigned to when created.
Digital Performer tries to find a suitable device if
the original device is not available.
If auditioning from the clipping window is not
working out, you can always drop the clipping into
a track and set up the playback settings exactly the
way you want.