Region

A region is an audio effect placed on a stretch of a track or of the whole mix. Its settings are its effect's, listed on the audio effect page.

Put an effect on just part of a track

An effect does not have to cover a whole part. The first effect on a part arrives covering all of it, and each one after that fills the first stretch no other effect covers; drag either end of its box along the picture in the Sound menu to pull it in, so a phone-line effect can sit under one line of a verse and nothing else. Once it covers a stretch rather than the whole part, dragging the middle slides the whole thing. A box always stays within the part's own sound: dragging it, or either end of it, stops where the part starts and where it ends.

• Leave it spanning everything and it treats the whole part — which is the ordinary case, and how effects behaved before.
• Add several and each one covers its own stretch. On a single track they cannot overlap: to layer two effects over the same moment, put the track in a group and treat the group.
• A drag that would collide simply springs back rather than landing somewhere the piece could not be saved.
• When every moment of the part already has an effect on it, Add effect reads Shorten an effect to add another: pull an effect's ends in to make room first.
• Each one has a Strength you can dial back, so you can have a little of an effect rather than all of it. Some effects have nothing to dial — an effect that is only a shape, not a blend — and there the control tells you so rather than pretending to do something.

On a group, an effect can cover only some of the clips

A group's Sound menu shows its arrangement as one lane per clip, so an effect there has a height as well as a width. Drag the top or bottom edge of its box across the lanes and it covers only those clips — reverb on the drums and not the voice, from one effect on one group.

Because two effects over different clips never touch the same sound, they are allowed to share the same moment in time — which is the one place the no-overlap rule above gives way. Widen a box back over every lane and it is once again an effect on the whole group. Delete a clip an effect was sitting on and the effect lets it go; delete the last one it covered and the effect goes with it, because it was an effect on those clips.

Where you can use a region

• Audio — Track

An effect from a song someone has posted can come into yours: in the audio editor's Add menu, press Import, then Starred and community, and pick an effect. It lands on the open track's effects — on the whole mix's when no track is open — in the first stretch no other effect covers, and where every moment is already covered it says so instead.

What you can do with a region you made

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