troubles in arranging multiple tracks
After endless searching thru the menu bars, can’t figure out how to put a 25-second gap in a track, fill the gap with another 25 second track, and then resume from original place in the main track.
Does this make sense? cheers.
Here’s how it SHOULD work - my beta version won’t un-group parts or I’d post some images (grrr)
if you want to create a gap - click in the timeline where you want the gap to start and then simply press the ‘s’ key all by itself - this will Split it. Drag the crosshair in the bottom left of the new part to where the gap will end. Or hold control and drag it.
find your new part and drag it into the gap.
Of course when you only have one track it seems impossible because the track hasn’t been minimized and we are used to n acting a surtain way.
But in the 2009 nTracks we have to click out side of the track somewhere to unhighlight the track before ungroup will work.
So just shrink it down a little.
Are we talking midi track here? or wav. file?
Without getting too complicated and trying to figure out all those buttons I always just create a new track then I copy the old track (duplicate track).
I would put the new 25 sec part where I want it on the timeline in the new track.
Then I would take the original track and slide the right end of it over to end where I want the first part to end (probably fade it out so that ending of it is not so abrupt)
Then I would take duplicated track and slide the left side of it over to the part I want the end of it to continue…(probably fade in that track as well)
This may require your 25 sec piece to be a bit longer than that and to be faded in and out as well, to avoid a chunky sound when it suddenly begins or ends.
If it is digitally a created track, like a drum samples that already have clean beginning and endings it shouldn’t matter.
welcome to the world of wav. editing! unfortunately this is where a majority of qualified musicians and song writers spend their time these days…
keep shinin
jerm
An ‘Add Silence’ feature would be nice. (Like on CoolEdit or some other DAW software) i.e place cursor - select from toolbar ‘Add Silence’ - select TIME in seconds.
It seems he is wanting to do more than add silence.
But for that task alone doesn’t highlighting the part and cutting it work?
or highlighting a part and clicking silence selection, put volume to zero?
keep shinin
jerm