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The Arrangements Panel

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THE ARRANGEMENTS PANEL

The My Arrangements panel manages multiple arrangement versions of the same project. Try a different song structure — a shorter radio edit, a version with a doubled chorus, an extended outro — without ever disturbing the original timeline. Open it by selecting Arrangements in the View menu, or via the Arranger sub-tab in the details area.

MAIN AND VARIANT ARRANGEMENTS

The original timeline is always preserved as the Main arrangement at the top of the panel. Click the + New button in the My arrangements header to create a new named arrangement (a "variant"). A variant is an ordered list of your arranger sections; reorder, duplicate, or omit sections freely, and the underlying clips are never touched.

  • Each arrangement header has its own buttons: Play, Duplicate, Mix Down, and — on variant arrangements — Finalize and Delete. Right-clicking opens the full menu with the same actions plus color, rename, and clipboard commands.

  • A disclosure caret collapses an arrangement out of the way. The collapsed state is saved with your project.

  • Section rows have a six-dot drag grip for reordering (the drag is animated), a play button, and per-section Duplicate and Delete buttons that appear on hover.

  • Click a section row to move the play indicator to that section's start and scroll it into view; double-click to play it or rename it. Selection stays in sync between the panel and the timeline.

  • Click a section's color swatch to recolor it.

  • While dragging sections, the insertion line color shows the operation: white for a move, orange for a copy (Alt+drag, or dragging between two arrangements).

PLAYING AN ARRANGEMENT

Press an arrangement's Play button and Mixcraft plays the sections in the arrangement's order, jumping seamlessly between them. Playback ends after the arrangement's last section.

MIXING DOWN AN ARRANGEMENT

Use Mix Down on an arrangement header to render that arrangement to an audio file. The render follows the variant's section order, honors the Match Project Sample Rate preference, and doesn't affect the project timeline.

FINALIZING AN ARRANGEMENT

Finalize commits a variant arrangement permanently to the timeline: Mixcraft splits clips at section boundaries and reassembles the whole project in the arrangement's order. Because this restructures the timeline, Mixcraft asks for confirmation first — and the operation is fully undoable.