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MX-View 1.4 and MX-OS 3.10
New Features
Pencil Tool
The pencil tool provides the ability to repair audio events that suffer from a pop or click.
In order to use the pencil tool, the following criteria must be met:
1. The waveform zoom level must be fully zoomed in (+) so that the audio waveform is displayed down
to the sample level. Attempting to alter the waveform data at any zoom level other than the sample level
will have no effect.
2. The entire audio event, which contains the waveform to be edited, must be set to full gain. Attempting
to alter the waveform data of an event that has gain less than maximum will have no effect. This applies
to any portion of the event waveform.
3. No portion of the audio event that has an applied fade will be editable. This includes any portion of the
event that is ramped up/down or cross-faded. Attempting to alter the waveform data in the region of an
event where fade is applied will have no effect. This applies only to the region where fade is applied.
4. No portion of overlapping audio events will be editable. This applies even if both events are at full gain
and there is no fade. Overlapping audio events are mixed whether there is fade or not and mixed
waveform data cannot be edited.
To use the pencil tool, click and drag on the portion of the waveform that you wish to change. As you
drag, the waveform will be altered and redrawn as you move the pencil, much the same as with a pencil
tool in a graphics drawing program. However, unlike a drawing program the pencil tool will always draw
over the waveform as you move it left and right so that there is always just one value per sample.
If pencil tool editing is first applied in a valid portion of the waveform and the pencil tool is then moved
over a faded region, the tool will affect only that portion of the waveform that is not faded.
When the mouse button is released, the altered waveform data is sent to the MX-2424 as a single unit.
This action is undoable and redoable. If you make 2 pencil edits (2 mouse ups) and then select undo
twice, the waveform will be back to what it was originally.
To cancel a pencil edit in progress, press the escape key; the waveform data will be reverted to the
original form.
When using the pencil tool, the result is that the original audio sample data from the sound file is altered
each time you release the mouse. Note that this may actually affect more than one track or clip if you
have made any copies of the audio event.
Because the pencil tool alters the original sound file, you can take advantage of this if you need to get
around limitations 2-4 above. Just copy the portion of the audio event that you wish to edit to a blank a
of a track, adjust the gain to maximum, remove any fades or overlaps and then zoom in to the sample
level and edit the waveform. All audio events that reference the affected sound file will then reference the