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Crop and bring the band in or out

Crop and bring the band in or out - Music Memos Tutorial

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Crop and bring the band in or out

- [Voiceover] A lot of times when you're getting down your musical ideas you'll have a lot of empty space, especially at the beginning or the end of your idea. A lot of times the creation process can be a little bit chaotic and loose and you might want to trim some of the stuff that's not golden from your musical idea. So we can crop these musical ideas. So I'm going to press the Crop icon here, and you can see the red handles. Now the start is actually nice and tight like right where I want it, but the end looks like it is not so tight. So let's hear this one more time. (country music) I'm gonna move this crop handle and let's hear what this ending sounds like now. (country music) Alright, that sounds about right. That sounds like a pretty perfect loop of this little idea. So now that I have the trim markers where I want them, I'm going to commit to the trim and press the big red Trim button at the bottom. And now we are going to save as a new idea. That's really the only option if…

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