Apple Logic Pro 8 - Manual (Page 331)

Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement 331
The advantage of real copies is that they can be independently resized. This may be
useful in situations where you would like to resize a few loop copies among hundreds
that span the song length.
To convert a loop into aliases or clones:
1 Select the original region.
2 Choose Region > Loops > Convert to Aliases (or use the corresponding key command).
MIDI region loop repeats are converted into aliases. Audio region loop repeats are
converted into cloned audio regions.
As such, any alterations to the length of the original region affect all aliases and cloned
regions.
Dividing, Demixing, and Merging Regions
There are often occasions where some portions of regions may be suitable for use, and
others may not be. This section concentrates on functions that help you to split regions
and reuse portions of them (or entire regions) to create new, combined regions.
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Tip: Don’t forget the Marquee tool (see “ Selecting Parts of a Region ” on page 305) for
similar region editing tasks.
Dividing Regions
You can divide one or more selected regions with the Scissors tool.
To divide one or more regions:
1 Make your region selections.
2 Select the Scissors tool.
3 Click-hold on the desired regions.
The help tag shows the current divide position.
4 Release the mouse button.
All selected regions are cut at the position shown in the help tag.
When selecting a cut point with the Scissors tool, you can move backwards and
forwards in steps of one division. The grid is based on the Snap menu setting.