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Chapter 20: Working with Regions and Selections 423
Healing Separated Regions
The Heal Separation command returns sepa-
rated regions to their original state—provided
the regions are still next to each other and their
relative start/end points haven’t changed since
the separation.
If you have trimmed or otherwise changed the
start or end points of the two regions, or moved
them further away from each other, you will not
be able to repair them with the Heal Separation
command. It is not possible to heal two regions
created from different audio files.
To heal a separation between two regions:
1
With the Selector tool, make a selection that
includes part of the first region, the entire sepa-
ration between the regions, and part of the sec-
ond region.
2
Choose Edit > Heal Separation.
If the regions do not heal with Heal Separation, do
one of the following to return the separated
regions to a single region:
■
Delete one of the two separated regions (ver-
ify that Slip mode is enabled so the gap does not
close) and use the Trim tool to expand the re-
maining region to its original length (see “Using
the Trim Tools” on page 374).
– or –
■
Delete both of the separated regions and drag
the original region from the Region List to the
original location (see “Placing Regions in
Tracks” on page 423).
Placing Regions in Tracks
Once you have created a region, it appears in the
Region List. From the Region List you can drag it
to a track to add to an existing arrangement of
regions, or you can create a new track and start
adding regions from scratch. The exact place-
ment of regions in a track depends on whether
the Edit mode is set to Shuffle, Slip, Spot, or Grid
(see “Edit Modes” on page 363).
To place a region in a track:
1
In the Region List, select the region or regions
you want to place.
2
Drag the selected regions from the Region List
to a location in a track.
If dragging multiple regions, the regions are
placed on adjacent tracks left to right or on mul-
tiple tracks from top to bottom depending on
the selected Region List Timeline Drop Order
(see “Timeline Drop Order” on page 424). If
dragging a stereo region, it must be placed in a
stereo track or in two mono tracks.
For information on locating regions in the
Region List by typing the first few letters of
their name, see “Keyboard Selection of Re-
gions” on page 361.