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inconvenient to have to hear all of it just to check the end point. When the cursor is on the

END field, pressing the ENT/PLAY key will cause the take to play back from the left side of

the screen only. In this way, by adjusting the zoom factor accordingly, you may use this as

a form of pre-roll so that you only need to audition the last 10 or so seconds of the take in

order to assess your end point edit.

HELPFUL HINT: If you are editing a take for use in a song where takes are sequenced,

you might find it helpful to quickly place the edit you are working in an empty song and

have it repeat a few times. If it cycles round with no glitches or tempo disruption, then you

probably have a good edit that will work well with other takes appended to it. If there is a

glitch on the repeat, return to this EDIT screen to fine tune the start and/or end points.

The process can be a bit hit-and-miss but as all editing is non-destructive here, it certainly

beats using a razor blade!

Once you have decided that the edit you have done is right, you may wish to discard the

unwanted portions in order to free up disk space.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The discard function is destructive and non-retrievable. Be careful

when using it!!

HELPFUL HINT: If you are recording in small sections to be compiled as a song later on,

please be careful when using the discard function. For example, you may make an edit

which, in isolation in the EDIT or PLAY pages, sounds fine but glitches slightly and needs

adjustment when playing back-to-back with another take in the SONG mode. If you use

the discard function, you may lose the ability to adjust the edit at a later stage. It is

recommended, therefore, that you don’t use the CUT function until you have successfully

compiled your song.

Of course, you may want to set a start point some way into the recording. An easy way to

do this is to press the ENT/PLAY key and let the take play back up to the point where you

want to set the start point. When you take your finger off the ENT/PLAY key, the play

cursor will stop at that position and you can move the start point to that position. It is

unlikely that such an edit will be particularly precise but you can zoom in for more precise

editing. The same thing can be done when editing the END point.

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