Clip rendering
Print a clip with its effects, reverse it, or save it as a WAV from the clip menu.
Right-click an audio clip and three actions turn its region into new audio. Reverse clip flips it in place. Render clip prints it, with or without the track’s effects, onto a new track. Download as WAV delivers the same renders as a file. Each action works on the selected audio clips and is one undo step; the original source stays in the project for any other clip that uses it.
When to use it
Print a vocal phrase with its reverb and then reverse the print, so the tail swells into the word. Reverse a kick for a pull before the hit. Consolidate a trimmed, faded, gain-adjusted region into one clean file. Download a processed phrase to drop into the sampler.
Controls
Reverse clip
Replaces each selected clip with a reversed copy of exactly its region. Gain stays; a fade-in over the old start becomes a fade-out over the new end, mirrored into place. Reverse again and the clip returns to its original name rather than stacking suffixes. The reversed audio is a new source in the project.
Render clip · To a new track
With effects runs the region, with its gain and fades baked in, through the track’s rack. The chain’s latency is removed so the print sits exactly where the clip was, and the chain’s tail, a reverb or delay ringing past the end, is appended and faded over its last moment just as the mixdown does. The result is stereo. The fader, pan, sends, parent buses and Master are not part of the print, and a bypassed track prints dry. Without effects prints the region with gain and fades only, keeping the source’s channel count: a consolidate.
Download as WAV
The same two renders, saved as a file instead of a new source. Rendering and download work on the clip’s source material even when the clip is muted.
Where the result lands
Rendered clips go to a new audio track right after the original, in its color, at the same timeline position, named after the track with (rendered) or (dry). Several selected clips on one track share one new track.
Tips
- Render with effects before reversing when you want the reverb to lead; reverse first when you want the dry sound backwards and the reverb forwards.
- Render without effects to tidy a chopped-up take into one clip before moving it between projects.
- A whole track, with its instrument and automation, is better served by freezing; rendering is for one clip or a handful.