Regions overview

Regions are the building blocks of a project. When you record an instrument, drag an Apple Loop to the Tracks area, or add a media file, a region containing the music from the recording, loop, or media file is created. Regions appear as rounded rectangles in the Tracks area.

You can arrange and edit the following types of regions in the Tracks area:

• Audio regions from audio recordings, audio Apple Loops, and imported audio files on audio tracks

• MIDI regions from software instrument (and external MIDI instrument) recordings, software instrument Apple Loops, and imported MIDI files on software instrument tracks

• Drummer regions generated on Drummer tracks or from Drummer Apple Loops.

  

You can edit regions in the Tracks area in several ways. For example, you can:

• Select regions

• Cut, copy, and paste regions

• Move regions to another track or to another point in the Tracks area

• Loop regions

• Shift the playback position of regions to create subtle changes in the rhythmic feel

• Resize regions to change how long they play

• Time stretch regions to change the relative distance between notes and other events

• Split and join regions

• Demix MIDI regions

• Create aliases of MIDI regions and clone audio regions

• Change the color of regions

• Convert audio regions to EXS sample zones

• Delete regions

• Edit region parameters in the Region inspector