Audio Montage Creation via the Startup Assistant

The easiest and quickest way to produce output made up of several audio files, such as a podcast episode or an album, is to create an audio montage via the Startup Assistant.

An audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment.

You can import audio files into audio montages. As soon as they are part of the audio montage, audio files are referred to as "clips". Clips are just referenced representations of the original audio files, so you can edit and alter them as you like, without affecting the original audio files.

There are two ways of creating audio montages via the Startup Assistant. You can choose the approach that best suits your workflow:

• You can use existing audio files as a basis and create an audio montage from them.

  As a result, a new audio montage is created in the Audio Montage window, which includes your audio files.

• You can start with the general setup of the audio montage by choosing a template. This allows you to select or record the corresponding audio files at a later point in time.

  As a result, a new audio montage is opened in the Audio Montage window, with the tracks and the sample rate set up as specified by the template. For example, choosing the Podcast Host + Music & SoundFX 44.1 kHz template creates three tracks, labeled as Host, Music, and Sound FX, but without any actual audio on the tracks. You can select and allocate audio files to the tracks at a later point in time.