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This section covers a set of region editing operations that you are likely to use again and again while working on a session. Depending on your work habits (and experience of other DAWs) you'll find some of these operations critical while others used only rarely.
You can carry out all of these operations from the keyboard (see Default Keyboard Shortcuts for a list). Equivalent operations can be done with mouse in most cases.
You may want to review your understanding of the edit point/range and which regions will be affected by region operations.
- Spot (Align)
- move selected regions to the edit point
- Split
- split selected regions at the edit point
- Trim Start
- Adjust the start of selected regions to the edit point (or as close as possible)
- Trim End
- Adjust the end of selected regions to the edit point (or as close as possible)
- Duplicate
- Make a copy of each selected region and position it immediately after the original
- Crop
- Truncate selected regions to the edit range
- Separate
- Split selected regions at both ends of the edit range
- Set Fade In
- Adjust selected audio regions' fade in to end at the edit point
- Set Fade Out
- Adjust selected audio regions' fade out to end at the edit point
- Toggle Fade In
- Turn selected audio regions' fade in on or off
- Toggle Fade Out
- Turn selected audio regions' fade out on or off
- Play Region
- Play session from the start of the earliest selected region
- Zoom To Region
- Zoom horizontally so that the selected regions span the editor track view
- Set Sync Point
- Set the sync point of all selected regions to the edit point
- Insert
- Inserts the currently selected regions in the Region List at the edit point