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Markers
To rename a marker, uncheck “Automatic naming” and 
type in a name of your own choice. The name of the 
marker will then be visible beside it. The name of the 
marker will also be shown as a “tip” if you move the mouse 
pointer over the marker head and wait for a moment.
The name of the marker is shown as a “tip”.
If the marker is a loop end marker you can change the 
number of loop repetitions by unchecking Infinite and 
specifying your own number of loops.
Moving and duplicating markers
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Markers
Selecting between markers
To select all audio between two adjacent markers, double 
click between them.
You can extend the selection to consecutive markers, by 
continuing to drag to the left/right.
To select all audio between any two markers, double click 
just to the right of the leftmost one, hold down [Shift] and 
double click just to the left of the rightmost one. 
Dropping on markers (Magnetize bounds)
For any operation involving drag and drop of audio mate-
rial you can use a marker...

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The Audio CD Montage 

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The Audio CD Montage
Introduction
The Audio CD Montage is an environment that lets you 
non-destructively edit, play back and arrange audio clips 
as tracks on an audio CD. Features include clip-based ef-
fects, volume automation, wide-ranging fade and cross-
fade functions and direct audio CD recording.
The Audio CD Montage is a great tool for mastering and 
music CD creation, but also for general multimedia work, 
radio spot production, etc.
Basic terminology
The Audio CD Montage can contain two...

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The Audio CD Montage
If the Montage window is too narrow to show all tabs, 
two arrow buttons are displayed in the upper right corner 
of the window.
Use these to “move” the row of tabs so that you can see and click the 
one you want.
About naming
Most of the views contain one or several menus. To make 
it clear which menu is meant in each case, we use the fol-
lowing syntax:
X view : Y menu
For example, “Edit view : Options menu” means the Op-
tions menu in the Edit view.
The ruler
At the top of the...

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The Audio CD Montage
Assembling the Montage
Creating a new Montage
1.Pull down the File menu and open the New submenu.
2.Select the “Audio CD Montage…” item.
The Sample rate dialog appears.
3.Specify the preferred sample rate.
The audio files that you want to use in the Montage must have this sam-
ple rate. 
4.Click OK.
A new Audio CD Montage window appears, containing one stereo track.
Alternative ways to create a Montage
There are other ways to generate a new Montage “auto-
matically”:
By importing...

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Deleting tracks
To remove unwanted tracks, proceed as follows:
1.Click on the track number button for the track that you 
want to delete.
The track pop-up menu appears.
2.Select Delete track.
If there are clips on the selected track, you will be asked whether you re-
ally want to delete the track. Click OK to proceed.
Folding tracks
To save screen space, you can fold tracks that you don’t 
need to have visible. This is done by clicking the arrow 
button at the top left corner of...

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By dragging from the Files view
This way, you can add clips without having Wave win-
dows open:
1.Select the Files view by clicking the Files tab.
The view now shows a file navigation environment, similar to the Win-
dows Explorer.
2.Use the left pane to locate and open the folder con-
taining the audio files you want to import.
The contents of the folder is shown in the right pane.
3.Locate the desired audio file(s) and drag them to a 
Montage track.
By importing files
1.In the...

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Zooming and navigating
Horizontal and vertical zoom controls
The zoom “levers” in the upper and lower right corners of 
the Montage window work just like in the Wave windows. 
Note that changing the vertical zoom does not affect the 
height of the tracks. Rather, it affects the vertical magnifi-
cation of the waveforms within each (audio) clip.
Zooming in the ruler
As in the Wave windows, you can adjust the horizontal 
zoom by clicking in the ruler and dragging the pointer up 
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Zooming in on a single audio clip
If you want to study an audio clip in detail, you can zoom in 
on it so that it fills up the track display:
1.Point at the audio clip.
Make sure you don’t aim at an envelope curve.
2.Click with the right mouse button.
The clip speed menu appears, containing various clip-based functions 
and settings.
3.Select “Zoom”, and from the submenu that appears, 
“Whole Clip”.
The Track View zooms in on the clip.
Zooming and navigating in the Edit Overview...