HD24/96 Technical Reference

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clipboard along with areas of recorded audio. If pasted elsewhere, the pasted section will include the blank space.

The Copy command is accessible from the pulldown Edit menu at the top of the GUI screen, or by clicking on the COPY button on the Tools panel. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-C.

Paste

Paste places the current contents of the clipboard onto the selected track, beginning at the Current Time. When multiple regions are pasted in, the relative time between the regions remains intact, with the start of the leftmost (earliest) region being pasted falling on the Current Time line. Splice (page 50) and Crossfade (page 53) functions are key interactive parts of the Paste operation.

The Paste command is accessible from the pulldown Edit menu at the top of the GUI screen, or by clicking on the PASTE button on the Tools panel. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-V.

Paste Repeat

The Paste Repeat operation is used in a similar fashion to the Loop region (page 57). It works in the same fashion as Paste except that the Paste operation is repeated automatically for a specified number of times, and at a specified interval. The Paste Repeat function can include multiple regions and silent space in between regions, whereas the Loop Region operates on one region only. The default Paste Repeat interval is the length of the selection so that the pasted regions are placed end-to-end, but this can be edited from the Paste Repeat dialog box.

Splice Mode

The SPLICE button, located near the center of the Tools panel, affects how cut and paste operations are performed. It’s analogous to tape splicing, hence its name. If Splice is turned OFF, cutting a selection out of a region leaves a hole, perhaps to be filled by an equivalent part from an alternate take. If Splice is turned ON, the two sections on either side of the cut are automatically joined together by the Cut operation. The earlier portion of the cut region stays put. The later portion of the region (including everything to the right, even if there are several regions) slides forward in time to join it.

When Pasting, if Splice is OFF, the pasted-in section is simply plopped down on top of the existing region, replacing what was there. If Splice is ON, the region is divided at the point where the section is pasted-in, and the right-hand portion slides over to make room for the pasted-in piece.

With Splice OFF, when multiple regions with a gap (no audio) between them are pasted to another track together, only sections where there is recorded audio will overwrite what’s existing on the track. In other words, audio existing on the pasted-to track will be audible in the gaps between the newly pasted regions. If Splice is ON, gaps in the pasted-in regions will remain. This is consistent with the above, since the original track moves out of the way to make room for the spliced-in section, leaving a space with no audio to poke through the holes.

NOTE: Splice only works with clipboard (cut and paste) operations. It doesn’t apply when dragging a region to a new location with the hand tool.