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Iain Churches wrote:
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Audio scrub was one of the features added to bring
CEP into line with professional audio editors, hence the
suffix Pro. Conductors and producers are part of the
professional scene.

Part of the professional music-recording-industry scene maybe.
No "maybe". It's a fact:-)
We still need to meet the expectations of the
client/ conductor/producer, even at the editing stage.

My own editing experience goes back to splicing 2"
24-track analogue tape. It required a stout heart and a firm
hand to take a Chinagreaph pencil and a razor-blade to the
one and only tape, especially when ten pairs of beady eyes
were watching:-) I appreciate the multiple layers of undo that
a large digital workstation offers. Two layers would suffice:-)

But it would be nice if you could undo for instance, the change before
last. As it stands if you can only do it on a "last in, first out"
basis. Obviously this can't be done for all edits because they aren't
necessarily linear.

So is there only one level of undo in Audition. Don?

Even the early versions of audio workstations from
Opus, New England Digital, Fairlight etc offered 99 layers.


No, there are many levels (100 I think), but you must go back through them
in the reverse order you applied the changes. You can't select one several
levels back to undo, while leaving more recent ones intact.


Ahaa. Similar to what one does in a word processor then?
That not too good for audio editing. I liked the approach
used by ProDisk which took snapshots of the cue marks
inserted on the sequencer screen, keeping a record of each
edit (EDL edit decision list - compatible with professional
video editing systems) so that you could go back to a particular
point to fix something while still keeping the splices that followed.

In say a twenty edit sequence you could simply click on Cue 6
and Undo for that particular edit. The EDL was a part of the
back-up info, exported to a a diskette or CD-ROM


Iain