Apple Logic Pro 7 - Manual (Page 175)

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Audio in the Arrange Window
This chapter discusses the importing, creation, editing,
and handling of Audio Regions in the Arrange window.
You will also learn a number of automated recording techniques, discover crossfading,
looping, and tempo matching. Further to this, you’ll find out about the Freeze facility,
which allows you to create projects that are beyond the real time capabilities of your
computer.
Regions
Creating Regions
MIDI Regions are containers for MIDI events in the Arrange window. Containers for
audio data are referred to as Audio Regions, or simply Regions.
Audio Regions can be compared to MIDI Regions in the ways that they are used and
edited. When you record audio in real time, Logic not only creates an audio file on the
hard disk, but also automatically creates a Region, which represents the recorded audio
file. Regions can be seen in both the Arrange window (on tracks), and in the Audio
window (see “Audio Window—Introduction” on page 349), which lists all audio files and
Regions used in the song.
Drag and Drop into the Arrange Window
You can import existing audio files into a song by dragging and dropping them directly
into the Arrange window from either; the Audio window, or directly from any folder on
your hard disks. A Region, encompassing the entire audio file, will automatically be
created at the “drop” point.
Note: You can only drag Regions onto Audio tracks.