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<section id="editor-window-region-list">
- <title>Region List</title>
- <para>
- To the right of the track display is the region list, which uses a tree
- display to show all regions in the session. There are sections in the region
- list, &#8220;Captured&#8221; and &#8220;External&#8221;.
- &#8220;Captured&#8221; contains all regions that were either recorded by
- Ardour or imported as native audio files. &#8220;External&#8221;contains
- regions created using audio files external to Ardour (from a sample library,
- for example).
- </para>
-
- <section id="region-list-organization">
- <title>Organization of the region list</title>
- <para>
- In both sections of the region list, any regions containing multiple
- channels will have its name followed by &#8220;[N]&#8221; where N is a
- number indicating the number of channels. Any region that ends in
- &#8220;-N&#8221;, where N is a number, is a region that describes an entire
- audio file. Any region that ends in &#8220;.N&#8221; is a region that
- describes part of an audio file. Any subtree within the region list can be
- hidden or displayed by clicking on the box left of its name.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Within the Captured part of the tree, each track is represented by its own
- subtree (strictly speaking, its not each track but each playlist that is
- represented). Within that subtree is an entry for each take recorded for
- that track. Remember that each take is stored as one and audio files
- (strictly, one per channel). Within the take tree is an entry for each
- region created from that take.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Within the External part of the tree, there is a subtree for each audio
- file embedded into the session. Within that subtree are entries for each
- region created from that audio file.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="region-list-operations">
- <title>Region list operations</title>
- <para>
- Click on the box to the left of the name of part of the tree to hide/show
- that part of the subtree.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Click the name of a region and then drag it to the track display area to
- insert a region into a track.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Click on the title bar of the region list to display a menu allowing you to
- </para>
- <table id="tbl-region-list-operations-menu"><title>Region List Context Menu</title>
- <tgroup cols = "2">
- <colspec colnum="1" colname="Snap Option" colwidth="1"/>
- <colspec colnum="2" colname="Action" colwidth= "2"/>
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Menu Item
- </entry>
- <entry>
- Description
- </entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Find
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Show/Hide All
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>
- fully expand or collapse the region list
- </para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Sort
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Display Automatic Regions normally,
- </entry>
- <entry>
- Ardour does not display regions created as a result of a side effect of
- user actions. If this option is selected, all regions will be included
- in the region list.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Import audio files
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>
- copy (and if necessary convert) audio files into the session. See
- Importing for more details.
- </para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- Embed audio file
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>
- embed external audio files into the session. No new files are created,
- and no format conversion is done. See [[editing:Embedding]] for more
- details.
- </para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- </section>
+ <title>Region List</title>
+ <para>
+ To the right of the track display is the region list, which uses a tree
+ display to show all regions in the session. There are sections in the
+ region list, &#8220;Captured&#8221; and &#8220;External&#8221;.
+ &#8220;Captured&#8221; contains all regions that were either recorded by
+ Ardour or imported as native audio files. &#8220;External&#8221;contains
+ regions created using audio files external to Ardour (from a sample
+ library, for example).
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="region-list-organization">
+ <title>Organization of the region list</title>
+ <para>
+ In both sections of the region list, any regions containing multiple
+ channels will have its name followed by &#8220;[N]&#8221; where N is a
+ number indicating the number of channels. Any region that ends in
+ &#8220;-N&#8221;, where N is a number, is a region that describes an
+ entire audio file. Any region that ends in &#8220;.N&#8221; is a
+ region that describes part of an audio file. Any subtree within the
+ region list can be hidden or displayed by clicking on the box left of
+ its name.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Within the Captured part of the tree, each track is represented by its
+ own subtree (strictly speaking, its not each track but each playlist
+ that is represented). Within that subtree is an entry for each take
+ recorded for that track. Remember that each take is stored as one and
+ audio files (strictly, one per channel). Within the take tree is an
+ entry for each region created from that take.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Within the External part of the tree, there is a subtree for each
+ audio file embedded into the session. Within that subtree are entries
+ for each region created from that audio file.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="region-list-operations">
+ <title>Region list operations</title>
+ <para>
+ Click on the box to the left of the name of part of the tree to
+ hide/show that part of the subtree.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Click the name of a region and then drag it to the track display area
+ to insert a region into a track.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Click on the title bar of the region list to display a menu allowing
+ you to
+ </para>
+
+ <table id="tbl-region-list-operations-menu">
+ <title>Region List Context Menu</title>
+ <tgroup cols = "2">
+ <colspec colnum="1" colname="Snap Option" colwidth="1"/>
+ <colspec colnum="2" colname="Action" colwidth= "2"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Menu Item
+ </entry>
+
+ <entry>
+ Description
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Find
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Show/Hide All
+ </entry>
+
+ <entry>
+ <para>
+ fully expand or collapse the region list
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Sort
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Display Automatic Regions normally,
+ </entry>
+
+ <entry>
+ Ardour does not display regions created as a result of a side
+ effect of user actions. If this option is selected, all
+ regions will be included in the region list.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Import audio files
+ </entry>
+
+ <entry>
+ <para>
+ copy (and if necessary convert) audio files into the
+ session. See Importing for more details.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ Embed audio file
+ </entry>
+
+ <entry>
+ <para>
+ embed external audio files into the session. No new files
+ are created, and no format conversion is done. See
+ [[editing:Embedding]] for more details.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+ </section>
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