Many sessions will require the use of existing material, whether it consists of audio and/or MIDI data. Using existing samples, loops and riffs from files stored on your system can be the basis for a new session, or a way to deepen and improve one that is already underway.
You can import audio and MIDI data into your session with the Add Existing Media dialog.
This box will display information about the currently selected file:
If the sample rate differs from the current session rate, it is displayed
in red, which indicates that the file must be resampled before
importing.
Resampling is controlled by the Conversion quality
option described below.
Files can be auditioned before importing. The slider under the play and stop buttons allows you to scrub around, a fader on the right side allows you to control the playback volume.
You can import files into new, automatically created tracks, to the region list (from where you can manually drag them into a track), or as new Tape tracks with the Add new files as... option.
New files will be inserted at either the file timestamp (if available, zero by default), at the edit point, at the playhead, or at the start of the session, as specified in Insert at....
The Channel mapping is either "one track/region per
file", or "one track/region per channel". The latter splits multichannel
source files into mono regions.
If you have selected multiple files and are importing them into a track,
you can also choose whether to sequence all files into a single track in
the order of selection, or to create as many tracks as there are files to
import.
The Conversion quality drop-down controls the quality of the resampling process, if the sampling rate of the source file differs from the session rate.
Finally, and most importantly, you can decide whether to Copy files to session, or to link them. Please read Copying versus Linking for details.
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