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18—Editing Tracks

This chapter provides an introduction to the editing of audio data on VS-2480 tracks.
The first part of the chapter explains important editing concepts. The second part
explains how to use the various available editing methods.
Chapter 6 explains how audio data is recorded on the VS-2480, and provides
explanations for some important terms: take, phrase, V-Track and track. See Page 86.

Editing Concepts and Overview

Phrases and Regions

In editing a track, you can work:
• pre-defined chunks of audio called “phrases.” You can work with one phrase at a time
on each track, or you can work with phrases on multiple tracks at the same time.
Chapter 19 discusses the things you can do with phrases.
• a specified time “region” in one or more tracks. Region editing operations are
described in detail in Chapter 20.
Remember that when you’re editing a track, what you’re really editing is its currently
selected V-Track.
To master the powerful editing features of the VS-2480, it’s important to understand
exactly what a phrase is. See “What’s Pointer-Based Playback?” on Page 87 if you
haven’t already read it.
If you want to edit multiple phrases on a track at the same time, you can define a region
that includes the phrases.
Earlier V-Studios referred to regions as “tracks.” Some of the VS-2480’s editing features
also use this word instead of “region.”
Each rectangle in the Home screen’s playlist is a
phrase
Edit
region
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