Harrison Labs V2.0.2 manual Object Region Editing

16.0 Object Region Editing

Object (Region) Editing

The basic element of audio editing in Mixbus is the Region. Another common name for a Region is a "clip". A region represents an audio file (or a portion of an audio file) on disk. Regions can be moved, stacked, trimmed, copied, deleted, and otherwise edited. The maximum length of a region is the length of the file that it uses as a source, but it can be much shorter. A region might represent just a small snippet (such as one syllable or drum hit) from the source file. Editing or deleting a Region does not change the source file in any way. This is called non-destructiveediting. Regions can only exist on tracks. You cannot drop a region onto an audio bus.

Regions have several "hot spots" that can be modified using the left mouse button when in Object or Smart-Object mode. Object edits follow the Grid selection, so operations will snap to the nearest Grid location if it is turned on.

Move	Click in the waveform area to drag the region in time or across tracks.
	Click on the colored bar at the bottom to trim the start/end of the
Start/End Trim	region. If you are nearer the start of the region, you will trim the start
	time. If you are nearer the end of a region, you will trim the end time.
Fade In/Out	Grab the Fade Handle on either end to change the region's fade.
Fade Length	Grab the yellow crossfade area to lengthen or shorten the region's
	fade time, while leaving the endpoint of the fade fixed.

￿ Tip: When you move/drag a range, it becomes visibly transpar-

ent. This allows you to see the regions underneath. This sometimes helps if you are recording an overdub or replac- ing one drum sound with another.

￿Tip: You can select multiple regions at the same time using

Ctrl/Cmd-click or selecting them with a rubberband box. Regions selected this way will edit together: you can move, trim, or fade them all at the same time.

￿Tip: Combining the Trim, Fade In/Out, and Fade Length, you have

complete control when assembling a crossfade between two regions. With these operations you can find the per- fect location and length of a crossfade with a minimum of effort.

Additional mouse commands on regions include:

	Drag the region, overriding the edit mode. If the mode is Slide, then
middle-click drag	the region will be locked in time and will only move up/down across
	tracks. If the edit mode is Lock, then this will override the lock and
	allow the region to slide side-to-side in time
Ctrl/Cmd-click drag	Drag the region, while making a copy
left-click on trim bar	Trim the start of the region to this point
middle-click on trim bar	Trim the end of the region to this point
Ctrl/Cmd-left-click on trim bar	Slide the contents of the audio file inside the region, leaving the region
	start and end times intact
right-click anywhere in a region	Pop up the Region Context menu (see below)
right-click in the yellow crossfade area	Change the shape of the fade in/out

%Note: For many region operations, you don't have to actually select the region. Just hover the mouse over the region, and use the short-

cut key. The shortcut keys are listed in the Region menu. This is a fast way to mute/unmute regions in a session, for example.

￿Tip: When one or more regions are selected, you can use the oper-

ations in the main Region menu to oper- ate on all the selected regions simultane- ously.

Section 16.0 - Object Region Editing 34 Mixbus User Guide