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Chapter 4
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Figure 4.8.2
Track Crop Complete Screen
and will then return to the Track edit display.
4.9 T
RACK
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PLIT
A Track Split is simply the act of taking one Track (and its associated Audio File) and splitting it into
two Tracks (and two Audio Files). Track Splits can be useful in several ways:
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Inserting Track Markers into a long, continuous piece of audio, without interrupting the audio
flow.
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Breaking a long recording into discrete songs.
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Isolating regions of a song for re-sequencing.
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solating regions of a song for different DSP processing.
The point at which the track is split is determined by the
TRACK START pointer, whose operation is
described in section 4.8. Once the TRACK START point has been set, holding PLAYLIST EDIT and
pressing NEW TRACK will cause the Split Confirmation Screen to be displayed, an example of which
is shown in Figure 4.9.1.
Figure 4.9.1
Track Split Confirmation Screen
Pressing
DOWN/NO while this screen is displayed will cancel the Split operation and return the
machine to its previous state. Pressing UP/YES while this screen is displayed will cause the track to be
split at the TRACK START pointer. Because MasterLink defaults to 0.0 seconds of "gap" between
Tracks, the audio during the transition from the first track to the second track will play back
seamlessly, as if the track had not been split. However, if the original Track had DSP applied to it
before it was split, the two resulting Tracks will both have the original DSP applied to them, and will
not play back seamlessly until the DSP is either turned off or rendered to the Audio File (see Section
5.4h for details on rendering DSP to an Audio File).
Note that the second Track will have the characters "Sxx" appended to the track name. This designates
Split xx, where xx designates the split number. For instance if you split a track named "MyHit ", the
resulting Tracks will be named "MyHit " and "MyHitS01". If "MyHitS01" is then split, the resulting
track names will be "MyHitS01" and "MyHitS02".