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Menu Reference
Project menu
Add Track
Select a track type from the Add Track submenu to add a
new track. The “Browse Sounds…” option opens a dialog
in which you can search for track presets or VST presets.
Duplicate Tracks
This will create a duplicate (copy) of the selected track.
Remove Selected Tracks
This will remove all selected tracks and any parts or events
on them from the Project window.
Show All Used Automation
This will open the used automation for all tracks.
Hide All Automation
This closes all open automation tracks.
Pool
This opens the audio Pool, which contains all clips (audio
and video) that belong to a project.
Markers
This opens the Marker window. Markers store positions to
facilitate quick navigation to important locations in a project.
Tempo Track
This menu item opens the Tempo Track Editor. For tempo
based tracks, the tempo can follow the tempo track (acti-
vated with the Tempo button on the Transport panel), which
may contain tempo changes.
Beat Calculator…
This opens the Beat Calculator window. The Beat Calcu-
lator is a tool for calculating the tempo of recorded audio
or MIDI material.
Project Setup…
This dialog contains general settings for a project. See the
dialog help for specifics.
Auto Fades Settings…
This opens the Auto Fades dialog, where you can specify
various fade options. Use the Help button in the dialog for
details.
Audio menu
Process
Basically, you apply audio processing by making a selec-
tion and selecting a function from the Process submenu.
For details about the functions and parameters in the vari-
ous processing dialogs, use the Help button in the corre-
sponding dialog.
Option Description
Envelope The Envelope function allows you to apply a volume en-
velope to the selected audio.
Fade In/Out Allows you to set fade-ins and fade-outs.
Gain Allows you to change the gain (level) of the selected audio.
Merge
Clipboard
This function mixes the audio from the clipboard into the
audio selected for processing, starting at the beginning
of the selection.
For this function to be available, you need to have cut or
copied a range of audio in the Sample Editor first.
Noise Gate Scans the audio for sections weaker than a specified
threshold level, and silences them.
Normalize The Normalize function allows you to specify the desired
maximum level of the audio. It then analyzes the selected
audio and finds the current maximum level. Finally it sub-
tracts the current maximum level from the specified level,
and raises the gain of the audio by the resulting amount
(if the specified maximum level is lower than the current
maximum, the gain will be lowered instead). A common
use for normalizing is to raise the level of audio that was
recorded at too low an input level.
Phase Reverse Reverses the phase of the selected audio, turning the
waveform “upside down”.
Remove
DC Offset
This function will remove any DC offset in the audio selec-
tion. A DC offset is when there is too large a DC (direct
current) component in the signal, sometimes visible as the
signal not being visually centered around the “zero level
axis”. DC offsets do not affect what you actually hear, but
they affect zero crossing detection and certain processing,
and it is recommended that you remove them.
It is recommended that this function is applied to complete
audio clips, since the DC offset (if any) is normally present
throughout the entire recording.
Reverse Reverses the audio selection, as when playing a tape
backwards.
Silence Replaces the selection with silence.