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17.1. THE CLIP ENVELOPE EDITOR
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ˆ Audio clips have entries for Clip (the clip's sample controls), every effect in the track's
device chain and the mixer.
ˆ MIDI clips have entries for MIDI Ctrl (MIDI-controller data) and every device in the
track's device chain.
The bottom menu, the Control chooser, selects among the controls of the item chosen in
the top menu. In both the Device and the Control chooser, you can easily identify the items
that have a non-neutral clip envelope by a little LED appearing next to their names.
The quick-chooser buttons below the menus select commonly edited controls.
Clicking the menus or the quick-chooser buttons brings up the Envelope Editor showing
the selected envelope, instead of the Sample Display or MIDI Editor. You can toggle the
display by clicking on the title bars of the Sample / Notes and Envelopes boxes.
The techniques for drawing and editing clip envelopes are the same as those for automation
envelopes in the Arrangement View.
If you create a nice section of envelope that you want to have repeat several times, try the
following:
1. Enclose the desired selection in the loop brace, and click the brace so that it is
selected. This will execute the Edit menu's Select Loop command, which selects
all material in the loop.
2. Copy the envelope with
Ctrl
C
(PC) /
C
(Mac).
3. Shift the loop brace to the right by one loop length with
4. Paste the envelope with
Ctrl
V
(PC) /
V
.
(Mac).
Note that you can use the arrow keys to quickly manipulate the loop brace and start/end
markers in other useful ways to expedite clip envelope editing tasks.
To delete a clip envelope (i.e., to set it back to its default value), rst go to Edit / Select All,
then to Edit / Delete.