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 methoda 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 > > > > > > The audacity4blind web site is at > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > > Audacity keyboard commands, and m... > > > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with subject line > > unsubscribe > > > > The audacity4blind web site is at > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > > Audacity keyboard commands, and m... > > > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with subject line > > unsubscribe > > > ________________ Dang Manh Cuong HCMC University of Pedagogy: The > Educational Psychology Mobile: +84 902-572-300 E-mail: > dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx Yahoo! 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