I will start with the easy one. Option is as close as the Mac gets to
Alt to the best of my knowledge. That said, they are not always
equivalent, as the two systems are independent of each other. When
running Windows on a Mac Command becomes the Windows key and Option
becomes the Alt, but that doesn't always indicate how they behave back
home. For example, pressing Alt opens the top menu in Windows but does
not on the Mac.
Now to your sound clips. My explanation is likely to make it sound
harder than it is, but here goes and seek clarification if you believe
there is a faint hope of my description improving.
There are a few paths to the top of the mountain, depending on equipment
and exactly what you want to achieve. If you have Audacity set to
record in stereo and you are coming in through a stereo source you may
be halfway there. That assumes you can bring in both sound sources
simultaneously. Then, by pressing shift-m on the track you can firstly
split it into two tracks. Then you can press shift-m on each of the
resulting tracks and make one left and the other right.
The other approach is to create a mono track and record one clip. Then
create another mono track and record the other clip. With the shift-m
command you can then make one track left and the other right. Hmmm,
before doing that last step you may find it better simply to pan each
track as far left and right as you want. Do that with shift-p and play
with values until you get the separation you want. The scale is between
1 and minus 1.
Andrew
On 20/12/2016 7:08 PM, Jane Phillips wrote:
Hello!
Does anyone know how to allocate different sound clips to the left and right
channel of a track in Audacity using a Mac?
Cheers
J
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