Apple Soundtrack - Manual (Page 93)

Chapter 6 Working in the Timeline 93
Working with the Playback Region
You can create a playback region in a project, an area that plays back repeatedly. This is
sometimes called “cycling” or “looping” playback. A project has only one playback
region, but you can move and resize it as often as you want.
You also use the playback region when recording multiple takes. For information on
recording, see Chapter 10, “
Recording Audio in Soundtrack ,” on page 159.
To set the playback region:
m Drag in the bottom half of the Time ruler from the beginning of where you want the
playback region to the end.
The playback region is lighter in color than the rest of the Time ruler, with triangular
markers indicating its start and end points. If a playback region already exists, you can
drag anywhere in the Time ruler outside of the current playback region to set the
playback region to a new position.
If cycling is turned off, you must turn it on for the playback region to be active. The
Cycle button darkens to indicate that the playback region is activated.
To activate the playback region:
m Click the Cycle button in the transport controls.
To move the playback region:
m Click in the bottom half of the playback region and drag it to a new position in
the Timeline.
To resize the playback region:
m Select either the start point or end point handle in the Time ruler and drag to resize the
playback region.
To remove the playback region:
m Click in any part of the Time ruler outside of the current playback region.
Drag in the Time ruler to
set the playback region.
Playback region