Editing a track or part of a track

Want to reuse a cool lick several times within the same track? Curious to hear what it would sound like to preview a few bars of your second track while the first song in your Playlist is still playing? No problem—just drag segments around, cut segments out, or copy them to other parts of the song.

Important note  MixMeister uses non-destructive editing on the tracks. This means that you can remove and copy sections of the track without impacting the music file. This behavior is unlike most wave editors, which actually manipulate the music file itself.

The benefit is that you can always return to the original music file, no matter how much you manipulate it in MixMeister. It's also much faster than editing the original music file, and it produces much smaller working files because you're dealing only with a set of pointers into the music and not the actual music data itself. Also, Remember that MixMeister will undo just about anything you do in the Playlist and Timeline.

See also

Splitting a song into segments

To drag a segment of a track to a new location

  1. In the Timeline, point to the title bar at the top of a track segment.
    Text appears that says Adjust Segment Position.

  2. Drag the segment to the position you want, and release the mouse button.

Notes about dragging and dropping

To insert a copy of a segment at a new location

In a Primary track, pasting at the blinking cursor means that you’re inserting the copied material, thereby moving the existing music out of the way to accommodate the new music. In Overlay tracks, pasting at the blinking cursor means that you’re pasting on top of the current music.

  1. In the Timeline, click to select the segment you want to copy.
    The selected segment has a highlighted title bar.

  1. Right-click the segment, and choose Copy.

  2. Click in the track where you want to paste the copied segment.

  3. Right-click the segment, and choose Paste.

See also

Working with Primary and Overlay tracks

To replace one segment with a copy of another segment

In Primary tracks, pasting over a highlighted section first removes the highlighted section and then inserts the new section.

  1. In the Timeline, click to select the segment you want to copy.
    The selected segment has a highlighted title bar.

  1. Right-click the segment, and choose Copy.

  2. Drag across a portion of the song that you want to replace with the copied segment.

  3. Right-click the segment, and choose Paste.

Notes about copying

To cut a segment of a track

In Primary tracks, cutting a segment removes that segment and does not leave a space where you cut—in other words, it closes the gap. In Overlay tracks, cutting a segment leaves a space where you cut—in other words, it leaves a gap.

  1. In the Timeline, click to select the segment you want to cut.

  2. Right-click the segment, and choose Cut.

See Also

Using Snap To Beat