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To Scale a Single Track or Bus
To scale a single audio track, follow the instructions in the table below:
To Undo Audio Scaling
• Press the U key.
To Scale a Single Track or Bus Using the Audio Scale Ruler
• In the track in which you want to change the audio scale, click in the Audio Scale Ruler and drag.
Drag up to increase the audio scaling. Drag down to decrease the audio scaling.
To Show or Hide the Audio Scale Ruler
1. Right-click in the Clips pane.
2. Select View Options from the menu that appears.
The Track View Options dialog appears.
3. In the Track View Options dialog, click the Show Audio Scale checkbox and click OK.
Splitting Audio Clips
You can split long audio clips into shorter ones. This lets you extract and rearrange individual sounds,
adjust timing and alignment, and apply effects selectively. Audio clips can be split using the Scissors
tool in the Track view or with the
Split command.
To Split Clips with the Scissors Tool
1. If necessary, zoom-in in the Track view and use the Scrub tool to determine where you want to
make a split.
2. If you want the split to be made on a note or measure boundary, a marker, or by an event, open the
Snap to Grid dialog, make the appropriate settings and click the Snap to Grid button to turn on the
Snap to Grid.
3. Click the Scissors tool button on the Track view toolbar.
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Increase/decrease the scale of
individual stereo or mono tracks There are several ways to increase or decrease the size of an
individual track’s or bus’s waveform:
• Press Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down arrows
• Click and drag vertically in the track’s Audio Scale
Ruler.
When you click and drag in the Audio Scale ruler of a
track, your cursor looks like this:
• Select the Zoom tool, hold the Shift key and drag
around the clip you want to zoom in on.
Restore a track to minimum scale Double-click in the track’s Audio Scale Ruler.