Suppose you have a bunch of sections lined up end to end in the top row of the arrangement grid, and you want to record Clarinet takes for each section while you play the entire song. To do this, select “Follow Song” in the Record menu. When this feature is turned on, the record-enabled section will move to the next section in the top row of the arrangement grid as each section is encountered, as you play. Note, however, that in this case you are not recording a single take like you did when you recorded into the separate “Linear” section. In this case your notes go into the current take selected in each section, in turn, as it is encountered.
Type command-H to bring the Arrangement window to the front again. The View popup menu in the graphic editing/notation window shows “My Song.” Make sure that “Follow Song” is checked in the Record menu and that the record button is on in the control palette. Just to give us something new to record, let’s add a player to the ensemble. Choose “Add Player” from the Setup menu and choose “Clarinet” from the Player Library Entry popup menu. You will see that a Clarinet player has been added in the ensemble palette, and that the Clarinet player is record-enabled. Now click the rewind and play buttons and play Clarinet notes while the first two “Verse” and “Chorus” sections play. This time, when the wiper is over the body of the first Verse section, the notes will go into the Verse and when the wiper is over the body of the first Chorus section, the notes will go into the Chorus. You may notice that as the wiper reaches the end of the Verse section and enters the Chorus section, the red bar in the arrangement window moves from the Verse to the Chorus, indicating that the record-enabled section has automatically changed for you. When the wiper reaches the beginning of the second Verse section, you will hear the Clarinet notes that you recorded in your pass over the first Verse section. Any new Clarinet notes that you play will be overdubbed on top of the existing notes in the Verse. This is because the section “Verse” plays back in exactly the same way wherever it appears in your arrangement.
If you want to make a Verse2 section that can be modified independently from the Verse section, do the following: Click on the second Verse section in the arrangement grid to select it and hit the delete key. Next, click once on the name “Verse” in the section list on the left side of the arrangement window (not on the first Verse section instance that is placed on the arrangement grid). Choose “Duplicate Section” from the Song menu. A section called “Verse Copy” appears at the bottom of the section list. Double-click on “Verse Copy” and type “Verse2” to rename it -- then hit the enter key. Drag out “Verse2” and position it in the hole on row 1 where the second instance of “Verse” used to be. Now you can make changes to Verse2 in your arrangement which will not affect the “Verse” section.
Once you have created a song your are not limited to recording into the song as a whole. You can double click on any section instance in the arrangement grid to view that section in isolation. Then you can record into the section as described on page 76 and your changes will affect all songs that use the section.
