Cut And Splice; Copy & Paste; Pasting With Splicing - Mackie HDR24 Editing Manual

different place instead, you'll have to mark and crop again. The keyboard shortcut
to Redo is CTRL+Shift+Z.
Play with this a bit until you get the feel of it. When you are done, restore the 6-10
region intact so you'll have something to work on for the next exercise.

Cut and Splice

With the Hand tool, click on the "Three Four" region to select it. Select Cut from
the pulldown Edit menu, click the Cut button or use the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+X. Poof! The region disappears. The selected region is not gone forever,
mind you — it's just hiding on the clipboard.
With the I-Beam tool, select the area containing "Seven" from its region and Cut.
"Seven" disappears and the beginning and end portions remain as separate,
disconnected regions.
In the tape-editing world, the cutting we just did would also result in three pieces;
the piece on the supply reel, the piece on the take-up reel, and the piece left in the
splicing block. Obviously, the leading and trailing pieces then have to be attached,
or spliced - tape decks aren't good at playing broken tape. The HDR24/96 doesn't
mind, however, if what you want is a gap rather than joining the sections.
In the Splice mode, the HDR24/96 behaves like a human tape editor with a
splicing block, automatically connecting the leading and trailing pieces when
you've cut something out in between:
Put "Seven" back in place using the Undo function. While you're at it, put "Three,
Four" back as well.
Click on SPLICE in the Tools panel to engage the Splice mode
With the I-Beam tool, select "Seven". Cut it. Note that the "seven" portion of the
region disappears, and the remainder of the region slides to the left to fill the gap.
Now we have "six-eight-nine-ten". If there had been more regions on the track to
the right of this one, they would have moved also.
The Cut and Splice process works across multiple tracks, so you can remove a
verse from a song with a single operation, just as if you were slicing across a
piece of 2" tape. When we get into copying and pasting, we'll show you how.
See what's happening here? The HDR24/96 has freed your audio from the
constraints of time and tracks, and your old tape machine has just become a, well,
um ... "Drop anchor!"
Copy & Paste
Pieces are always copied to the clipboard and pasted from the clipboard, just like
a word processor. We've seen how the Splice mode takes up the space where
we've cut out an area. Here, we'll see how the Splice mode affects the track when
you paste something new into it.

Pasting with Splicing

Get back to a known version of the "count to ten" track by repeatedly
Undoing until you're back to the four regions we had before we started
cropping. [1,2] [3,4] [5] [6,7,8,9,10]
With the hand tool, select the [3,4] region. Click Copy. Although nothing
appears to have changed, behind the scenes, that region was copied onto the
invisible clipboard. Choose a track you'd like to copy that region to and click
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