Cutting with the MuSyC Overview Project

After the analysis, the takes of the reference tracks of the source projects are arranged in the overview project. The overview project does not display the entire audio material in the chronological sequence of takes determined by the recording, as normal projects do. Instead, it presents an overview mode for better handling of all takes of all source projects collected, sorted by musical context.

The representation of the objects on the tracks is used to sort and select the takes: The takes - with all tracks on each - from the source projects are represented by a single reference object for each one. Matching takes are displayed synchronized in time one above the other, different takes one after the other. Small time deviations are compensated visually by the time alignment. The adjusted objects are marked with TIME.

The takes in the overview project are thus "proxies" for a particular take in a particular source project: the selection of the track and the positioning of the play cursor determine which take it is. Accordingly, the play cursor is also moved to the appropriate position in the associated source project.

In the overview project, therefore, only exactly one track can be active at a time, which thereby determines the active take. When you start playback, this take will be played back from the playback position. If you change the active track during playback, you can compare takes this way. Click in the track header or on an object to do this.

Normally the reference track of the source project is played. To play the entire source project, use Edit > Multi-synchronous cut > Play source. The default behavior can be changed in the system settings for MuSyC (see below).

If you select a range in a take in the overview project or set a source-in or source-out marker, the markers are set to match the take or the corresponding range is selected in the corresponding source project. This connection between these time positions in an object of the overview project and those of the associated take in the source project is independent of the position of the object in the overview project. The positions in the overview project are meant to mark audio material as "simultaneous" that is present in the source project in succession. You can therefore also move the objects in the overview project to correct errors in the analysis or to manually arrange the objects one below the other and thus use them as different recording takes of the same musical material.

Note: If, after analysis, you move objects that represent different takes of the same piece and for which you have performed a time alignment to visually align the takes, you must perform the time alignment again after moving it (menu Edit > Multi-synchronous cut > Time alignment > Align selected objects). The time reference is always the top object.

So you use the overview project to select audio in the source project for an edit. Then, when you perform an edit, the audio is copied from the source project to the destination project; the overview project is not involved. You can perform the actual editing using the source-destination cut functions, as described in detail above. However, it is also possible to simply copy and paste a range selection from a take from the source to the destination project without SD functions.

To do this, the option Command "Copy" copies source when called in overview must remain active in the SD-Edit/MuSyC- options. If it is deactivated, the copied area contains only the content of the object from the overview project, i.e. only the contents of the reference track from the source project.