Fades Dialog Box

Select, view, edit and audition settingsAudition controls:

– Audition = current selection– View First Track– View Second Track– View Both Tracks

Fade shape displays – In = red– Out = blue

Slope/Link Settings

Equal Power – Retain more of their amplitude for a greater

portion of the fade.– Use this when crossfading between two

completely different types of material. Equal Gain

– Use when crossfading between two identical regions/instruments.

Use Dither– Improves audio performance and reduce

quantization noise when mixing or fading.

Fades & Elastic Audio

Fades can be created on regions on E.A. enabled tracks, however, E.A. processing cannot be applied to fades.

The fades will always retain their absolute duration.

Micro-fades will be applied at region boundaries to lessen the artifacts at fade files.

Audiosuite

Software-based audio effectsApplied in whole or partial sectionsDo not operate in real-time

– Create new audio source files or alter original source files.

File basedUtilizes computer’s processing powerOnly 1 AudioSuite plug-in can be active

at a time.

Region List

In the Edit WindowAnything recorded, imported or createdAudio,MIDI, Video, auto-created

regions, and region groupsAudition itemsDrag items from the list

Selecting Ranges

Selecting a Range of Regions– Shift click– Marquee cursor (left of unhighlighted

region name)Deselect a range of regions

– Command click– Marquee cursor (left of highlighted region

name)

Regions List Pop-up Menu

Search, select, sort, export, clear, and manage items.

Find itemsRemove Unused regions

– Remove = removes unused regions from the session.

– Delete = permanently remove the file from our hard driveCannot be undoneMust be a whole-file

Compacting Sound Files

Conserves disk spaceExamines selected source audio file

and irretrievably deleting any data that has not been defined as a region in the current session.

You can pad the files so that you have extra audio on either side of its regions.– Crossfades– Edit adjustments

Exporting Region Definitions

Pointers that tell P.T. which parts of an audio file to play.

Normally stored with the session document

By exporting the region definitions you can write the pointers into the parent file.