Clip Modes and Editing

After you have recorded your audio clips, you might want to adjust levels, trim starts and ends, add fades etc. If you have recorded several takes in your audio clips, or several cycles in Loop Mode, you can also cut out segments of the various takes and compile (comp) them into a final “perfect” audio clip.

You can also quantize audio clips, manually change the timing of individual notes or beats in the clips and even export audio clips as REX files.

Inline editing vs. the Comp Editor (Edit Mode)

There are two main ways you can edit your audio clips:

•	Inline, in Arrange Mode.

Inline editing can be made on Single Take clips (see “Clip Modes” below). Single Take clips can be opened for editing in Arrange Mode, similar to when editing parameter automation clips. Inline editing allows you to adjust the positions (timing) of the automatically detected and distributed transient slice markers that appear in the audio clip. The timing can be adjusted by moving and stretching (warping) the audio slices.

•	In the Comp Editor (Edit Mode) to create compiled clips out of multiple recordings in the clip.

The Comp Editor is where you can cut out segments of several Takes (recordings) and compile into a final clip. Here you can also insert silence segments to e.g. remove noise from silent parts in your audio clips.

Clip Modes

An audio clip can be either in Single Take Mode or Comp Mode:

•	A clip in Single Take Mode is set to play back only a single Take (Comp Row) throughout the audio clip.

If you have recorded only once in an audio clip, or recorded several complete Takes, the clip is automatically set to Single Take Mode.

•	A Single Take clip which contains only one single Comp Row does not have any special visual indication:

A Single Take clip could also contain several Comp Rows, where one Comp Row has been manually selected for playback.

•	Single Take clips that contain more than one Comp Row are distinguished by two parallel lines in the lower right corner:

You can create a Comp clip out of a Single Take clip by opening it in the Comp Editor/Edit Mode and adding Cuts, see “Adding Cuts”.

•	A Comp Mode clip is built up by segments from several recordings on multiple Comp Rows in the clip.

If you have recorded (or imported) several takes in the same audio clip - or recorded several loops in Loop Mode - and then compiled segments of the various Comp Rows in the Comp Editor, the clip is in Comp Mode. You can manually turn a Comp clip into a Single Take clip by clicking the “Bounce” button in the Comp Editor (see “Turning Comp clips into Single Take clips”) - or by opening the clip and manually selecting a single Comp Row for playback by clicking the desired Single Take Mode button (see “Single Take Mode button”).

•	Comp Mode Clips are distinguished by a couple of dots in the lower right corner:

The dots indicate that there are compiled Comp Rows in the clip.

Opening audio clips for editing

In Arrange Mode, audio recordings are displayed as one or two (mono or stereo) waves in the audio clips. The selected audio clips in the pictures below contain mono recordings.

Opening a Single Take clip

If the audio clip only has one single Comp Row, or several Comp Rows but only plays back one of these, it means it’s in Single Take Mode (see “Clip Modes”). Open the clip as follows:

Open a Single Take clip by double-clicking it, or by selecting it and pressing [Return].

Double-click a Single Take audio clip in Arrange Mode...

...to open it for editing inline in Arrange Mode.

The Single Take clip opens inline in Arrange Mode, i.e. the sequencer does not enter Edit Mode. This behavior is similar to when you open automation clips in the sequencer.

When the audio clip is open inline you can stretch, move and quantize audio slices etc., see “Editing audio inline”.

To open another Single Take clip on the same track inline (and thus close the currently open clip), double-click the other clip.

It is also possible to open a Single Take clip in the Comp Editor:

Select the Single Take clip and its track, and hold down [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and press [E].

Click the “Open in Comp Edit” button in the Track List when the Single Take clip is open inline.

Closing a Single Take clip

To close a Single Take clip which is open inline, press [Esc] or [Return].

Alternatively, click outside the open clip on the Arrange Pane, but not on the same track.

Opening a Comp clip

If the audio clip is in Comp Mode (see “Clip Modes”), you can open the clip as follows:

Open a Comp clip by double-clicking it, or by selecting it and pressing [Return].

The sequencer automatically opens the clip in the Comp Editor (Edit Mode).

Double-click a Comp clip in the Arrange View...

...to open it for editing in the Comp Editor.

To exit and return to Arrange Mode, either press [Esc], [Return] or click the “Close” button in the Comp Editor.