MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 112)

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Crosshairs
If View X-Hairs is enabled in the Options menu,
three vertical alignment guides or “crosshairs” will
pop up when you grab a Region with the Hand tool.
These extend over the full height of the screen, with
one at each end of the Region and one at the point
where you’ve clicked. They’re often convenient
when you’re trying to line one region up with
another on a different track.
Snap edit mode will affect the standard Move Region -
drag and drop (click, drag and release) functionality, as
well as the Copy Region - copy, drag and drop
([C
TRL +click], drag and release) functionality. With
Snap on, as soon as the region is dropped (mouse button
released) its snap edge, if close enough, may be drawn
to a Snap-to edge.
Insert Time
Insert Time inserts a specific amount of blank space into the selected track(s). Insert Time is a
combination of Split and Paste with Splice enabled, except that blank space is pasted instead of
the contents of the Clipboard. The default position for the Insert is the location of the Current
Time bar. If the Current Time bar intersects a Region on a selected track, then the Region is split
so that blank space can be inserted at that point.
When an area has been selected with the I-Beam tool, and the Insert command is given, the length
of blank time inserted defaults to the length of the selected area and the blank time starts at the
beginning of the selection area. When the insert point is selected with the Hand tool, the length
of the inserted blank space defaults to 0 and must be manually entered in the Insert Time dialog
box.
To insert blank time into one or more tracks (GUI operation only):
Select the Insert point and track(s) into which you want to Insert Time
Select Insert Time from the Edit menu, or use keyboard shortcut [C
TRL
+i] .
In the Insert Time dialog box, modify the Insert Time Position and the Amount of time
to be inserted as necessary.
Click OK.
Fades
A 10-millisecond fade is automatically generated at the beginning (fade in) and end (fade out) of
each region. These fades appear at the beginning and end of any recording, and are also added to
the ends of any Cut, Split, or Crop within a region.
The purpose of the fade is to prevent a click at a region boundary by assuring that the playback
always starts and ends at zero amplitude rather than in the middle of a cycle. Normally the
default fade in and out time is too short to hear, but it may affect how an edit sounds.
The duration of the fade and its shape can be adjusted from the Region Editor dialog box (page
116) or by expanding the display so that the fade area is visible and dragging the inside edge of
the fade area with the Hand Tool.
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