Logic-Pro

When selecting Audio Regions in the Audio Window or Audio Bin, it would be very useful to display the start point of a selected region in Sample values in the context of the overall audio file.

Scenario

A typical example is rendering a multi-track mix to stereo or even editing a bounced file that may require further edit cuts.

Once you have cut an audio file or region a new region representing that cut is automatically created. Removing this cut from the Arrange area leaves a gap and you then fill this gap by shifting one of the regions to meet the other. 

Selecting any of the shifted regions in the Arrange area will display its Start Point relative to the Timeline and subsequent length in the Help Tag. There is no reference to the cut region’s start point (anchor point) in relation to the overall audio file that it originates from.

The only way to access this absolute time specific information is by selecting the region in the Audio Window (not the Audio Bin) and viewing the info display of the selected region in the Sample Editor. Selecting the same region in the Arrange Area will show a region start point and region length relative to the time-line and not the mother audio file.

Why is this important? Here’s why…

If parametric adjustments are required at the multi track stage prior to rendering (bouncing) and after having made cuts to the bounced file, it is inevitable that a fresh bounce of the multi track stage will require cuts at the exact same points as the previously edited bounce.

Having immediate visual access to sample accurate start points, relative to the overall audio file time, of a region that has been shifted left or right to bridge a cut, will enable quick application of the scissor tool or split by playhead function on the latest bounce to replicate exactly the cut points of the previously edited bounce and therefore quickly dispose of unwanted regions. 

This information would be a valuable inclusion as an optional display along side the Region Length field in the Audio Window and Audio Bin.

Only by selecting a region in the Audio Window can one access the true Region Start Point value relative to the mother audio file and even then, this information is only available via the Sample Editor info display.

To summarize, I have written to  Apple’s Logic Team to please offer a Region Start Field as well as a Region Length Field in the Audio Window.

For sample Accurate editing in the Arrange Area, set Snap: to Samples. In the Sample Editor set View to Samples to reference the correct Region Start value in the info display.

-MC-

Tags: Arrange, Audio, Region, Sample Editor