[audacity4blind] Re: Drop-in Recording

  • From: Daveed Mandell <daveedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:40:41 -0700

I'll keep all of the suggestions in mind and will try everything out. I 
appreciate the prompt replies and helpful hints here. Great list! 

Daveed

----- Original Message -----
From: Dang Manh Cuong <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 12:36 am
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Drop-in Recording

>
>
> Hi
> Gale Gave a link in his reply, but I'll post this again for you to easily 
> find. Sorry because English isn't my native language
> Append record into the middle track using Audacity
> This tip may be useful for blind users when complete recording, but realize 
> there're something to say, or correct any mistake.
> Tip 1:
> 1. Make sure the track you want to append record is selected, and move 
> cursor to the position where you want to append record.
> 2. Select from that position to the end of current track.
> 3. Split this to a new clip by pressing Ctrl+Alt+I, or go to menu edit->clip 
> boundaries->split new.
> 3. (Optional) Move to the track you've just splitted, and press Shift+us to 
> mute it.
> 4. Move back to the track you want to append record, then press shift+rather 
> to 
> continue recording.
> 5. Move cursor to the end of the track you appended record.
> 6. Deselect this track, then move to the splitted track then align it with 
> cursor
> 7. (Optional) Select both of these tracks, then go to menu track, choose 
> mix and render to join it into one track.
> Tip 2:
> 1. Move cursor to the position where you want to append record.
> 2. (Optional) mute the original recorded track
> 3. Press R to record into a new track.
> 4. Select the new recorded audio, then cut or copy to clipboard
> 5. If you want to slide recording, just move cursor to the position where 
> you want in the ooriginal track, then paste the new recorded.
> If there are mistakes you want to correct, select it and paste your newly 
> recorded audio. Remember to delete the unused track you recorded and cut.
> Tip 3 given by David Bailes from audacity4blind mailing list
> Assuming that the track you're interested in is selected, and others are not 
> selected.
> 1. move the cursor to where you want to insert some recording.
> 2. press shift+knowledge to select to the end of the track, and ctrl+it to 
> cut it.
> 3. press shift+rather to append record, and spacebar to stop.
> 4. press k to move to the end of the track, and ctrl+very to paste.
> HTH
> Cuong
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daveed Mandell" <daveedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:30 PM
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Drop-in Recording
> 
> 
> > I'm very sorry.  My laptop crashed, and I must have lost your reply, along 
> > with several other emails.  Can you tell me again where to find that 
> > accessible collection you spoke of?  Thanks so much.
> >
> > —Daveed—
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Gale Andrews
> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 12:00 AM
> > To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Drop-in Recording
> >
> >
> > | From Daveed Mandell <daveedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > | Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:38:33 com0700
> > | Subject: Drop-in Recording
> >> Thank you so much for your explanation. I hadn't been able to read
> >> your entire message earlier. However, it's a very awkward way of
> >> handlling drop-ins. I think Audacity needs a much smoother, cleaner,
> >> quicker method—a basic punch-in, punch-out method. I hope this  will be
> >> intrnuced someday. To my mind, it's a serious drawback to a very fine
> >> program.
> >
> > Hello Daveed,
> >
> > I did actually reply the same day (you asked under another topic called
> > "Fantastic Program!"). It was here:
> > //www.freelists.org/post/audacity4blind/Fantastic-Program,1 .
> >
> > As you can read there, I pointed you to the collection of accessible
> > workarounds for doing punch-in recordings that Cuong had kindly
> > collected together.
> >
> > As stated, we'll count your vote for a basic punch-in record method
> > that overwrites in the same track. However that is rather like the
> > days of old "destructive" punch-in on a tape recorder.
> >
> > There are now better, "non-destructive" ways of doing a recorded
> > replacement in the same track in a computer program, for example
> > by storing each re-recorded "take" that you do and letting you
> > choose the take you want.
> >
> > Audacity cannot do either the "destructive" or "non-destructive"
> > methods yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gale
> >
> >
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Steve the Fiddle <stevethefiddle@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:51 pm
> >> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Drop-in Recording
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 25 March 2013 00:38, Daveed Mandell <daveedm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > Hello:
> >> > >
> >> > > I sent a message about this issue a fdw days afo with no response. 
> >> > > Does
> >> > > anyone know if it's now possible to do drop-in, or punch-in, 
> >> > > recording
> >> > > with Audacity? If not, has anyone heard about this feature being
> >> > > implemented in an upcoming version of the program? Thanks so much.
> >> > >
> >> > > Daveed Mandell
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Audacity does not "punch in" in the sense of over-recording a
> >> > previously recorded track, and does not have "virtual tracks". What
> >> > Audacity does have is an "unlimited" number of  tracks (subject to the
> >> > hardware capabilities of the computer being used, but on modern
> >> > machines this should be a lot of tracks).
> >> >
> >> > I've not worked out a step-by-step procedure for keyboard operation,
> >> > but I can describe a brief overview of how to do a drop-in recording.
> >> > If you need more detail I hope that other users on this list will be
> >> > able to fill in the gaps.
> >> >
> >> > The basic procedure is to record the "drop in" into a new track. For a
> >> > really professional finish to the task the original track and the new
> >> > recording can be cross-faded from one to the other.
> >> >
> >> > Taking an example, let's say that you have a recording and there is a
> >> > mistake that you wish to correct.
> >> > First you need to locate the mistake and select it. The selection can
> >> > then be silenced using Ctrl+L.
> >> > Then wind back a few seconds so that you have a run in.
> >> > Start recording. The recording will be on a new track.
> >> > You will probably want to trim the drop-in so that it blends nicely
> >> > with the original take. To to that you could select the part that you
> >> > want to keep and then press Ctrl+That to trim the track.
> >> >
> >> > If you need to adjust the position of the new track, you can move it
> >> > so that it plays a little earlier by selecting a short section of the
> >> > track before the part that you want to keep and delete it. To move the
> >> > new recording so that it plays a little later, position the cursor
> >> > (playback position) before the new recording and generate a little
> >> > silence (generate menu).
> >> >
> >> > When the project is exported, all tracks in the project are
> >> > automatically mixed own into a single file.
> >> >
> >> > Steve
> >
> >
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