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Expanding Alternate Takes to New
Playlists

Expanding alternate takes to new playlists
readily facilitates track compositing. Once you
have expanded alternate takes to new playlists
on a track, you can audition and edit them in
Playlists view to assemble the best takes in the
main playlist.

To expand alternate takes to new playlists:

1

Identify the region on the main playlist with

matching alternate regions (takes).

2

Do one of the following:

• Right-click the region and choose Matches

> Expand Alternates To New Playlists

.

• If the region is selected, with the Selector

tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) anywhere on the se-
lected region and choose Matches > Expand
Alternates To New Playlists

.

• If the region is not selected, with the Selec-

tor tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) at the precise begin-
ning of the loop or punch range and
choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New
Playlists

.

All matching alternate regions are copied to new
playlists on the track. To view all playlists for the
track, select Playlists view. In any track view,
you can also select any available alternate playl-
ist as the main playlist from the Playlist selector.

Expanding Alternate Takes to New
Tracks

Expanding alternate takes to new tracks readily
facilitates auditioning, editing, and mixing al-
ternate takes, each on separate tracks.

To expand alternate takes to new tracks:

1

Identify the region on the main playlist with

matching alternate regions (takes).

2

Do one of the following:

• Right-click the region and choose Matches

> Expand Alternates To New Tracks

.

• If the region is selected, with the Selector

tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) anywhere on the se-
lected region and choose Matches > Expand
Alternates To New Tracks

.

• If the region is not selected, with the Selec-

tor tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) at the precise begin-
ning of the loop or punch range and
choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New
Tracks

.

3

Then choose one of the following from the Ex-

pand Alternates To New Tracks sub-menu:

By Track Name

Names all new tracks after the

source track name.

By Region Name

Names each new tracks after

the corresponding original region names that
you see in the Matches list.

By Track and Region Name

Names all new tracks

after the source track name, but with the corre-
sponding original region names in parenthesis.

All matching alternate regions are copied to new
tracks.