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About regions

Each time you record a Real or Software Instrument, you create a “region” in the instrument’s track that contains the music you record. When you drag a loop to the timeline, you create a region from the loop. Any changes you make to the region, such as splitting or transposing it, do not change the original recording or loop.

Real Instrument regions you record are purple, Real Instrument regions created from loops are blue, and Real Instrument regions from imported audio files are orange. Software Instrument regions, from recordings, loops, or imported MIDI files, are green.

Regions, along with tracks, are the building blocks of a project. There are several ways you can edit regions, including:

For more information on editing Real and Software Instrument regions, see Related Topics below.

Related Topics

Editing Real Instrument regions

Editing Software Instrument regions

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