Using the Playback Action Menu and File Field

The Action menu is found to the top right of the waveform display and contains the following items:

The File field, which is located to the left of the Action menu, shows the name of the currently loaded audio file. You can load an audio file in several ways.

To load an audio file
Do one of the following:
  • Click the File field to show an Open dialog, from which you can choose the file you want to load.

  • Choose Open File from the Action menu to show an Open dialog, from which you can choose the file you want to load.

  • Drag an audio file to the File field.

  • Drag an audio file into the waveform display.

  • Drag an audio file to the Instrument slot containing the Playback plug-in.

  • Drag an audio file between two channel strips. This creates a new channel strip with the Playback plug-in inserted. The (dragged) audio file is automatically loaded into this new Playback instance. You can drag multiple files between channel strips to create a new channel strip for each file.

    Note: Using either of the first two methods, you can preview files in the dialog before adding one to the Playback instance. To preview the selected audio file in the dialog, click the Play button. Click the Stop button in the dialog to stop playback.