Extra Credit - Mackie HDR24 Editing Manual

Extra Credit

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HDR 24/96
Before you take off to create a musical collage with your new editing skills, try
one more exercise. By now you should know where to find all the buttons and
tools. This will help you to get comfortable with them.
Return to your original raw "count to ten" track by opening Playlist 1. You did
follow the instructions and save it, didn't you? Good! Select Playlist Manager
from the Playlist menu and double-click on Playlist 1. That should get you back to
a whole track. We're going to do is change that 1-to-10 count into a different
arrangement of numbers, just as you might rearrange portions of a song, or words
in a speech.
Using the I-Beam tool and the SPLIT button, divide the track up into individual
regions, one spoken number to a region. Place the I-Beam on the track in a space
between numbers and click SPLIT. Do this throughout the track. Then, using the
Region Editor, rename each region so you can identify them visually. The quick
way to do this is to double-click on a region using the Hand tool. This will pop
open the Region Editor, where you can type in a new name. Once the Region
Editor dialog box is opened, a single click on any other region with the Hand tool
will pull that region up in the Editor.
without the CTRL key will move it. Try pulling together the regions to make your
telephone number. Need to call Mackie for help? Here's ours:
Pretty cool, huh? Many thanks to Sheri Fleming for speaking into our microphone.
Now, let's get even more creative. Create a new track with the numbers counting
down rather than up. Turn on SNAP and you'll see that the regions butt right up
against each other as you move them into place.
Now, using the Hand
tool, copy some
numbers to a new
track, or if you choose,
another virtual take
under the track with
the original recording.
Holding the CTRL key
while dragging a
region will copy it,
simply dragging it