[audacity4blind] Re: New Tracks
- From: David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:06:27 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Eloh,
If you've got a narration track and a music track, then the volume of the music
track isn't automatically decreased during any speech. If you want this to
happen you have to do something, and the easiest something to do is to use
the Auto Duck effect which is on the effects menu. This can automatically
reduce the volume in one or more tracks when the volume in a control track is
above a certain threshold. There is a fade in and fade out for the volume
reduction.
The requirements of the Auto Duck effect are that:
1. The tracks whose volume is going to be reduced are selected, and a
time-range is selected to include all the audio you want to be modified.
2. The control track is the next track after the above tracks, and it isn't
selected.
So if you've got one music track and one narration track in the project:
1. Make sure that the music track is the first track. You can move tracks up
and down the table using the tracks context menu (application key).
2. Arrange for the music track to be selected and the narration track
unselected.
3. Select a time range to include all the audio in the selected track: press j,
and then shift + k.
4. Open the Auto Duck effect from the effects menu, and press Enter to press
the default OK button.
In fact the Auto Duck dialog contains a number of controls for setting various
parameters which you may want to adjust. All the time parameters are specified
in seconds, and the volumes in db.
1. The first control is a panel which graphically illustrates the parameters,
and you can just ignore this.
2. The duck amount is the reduction in volume.
3. The maximum pause is the maximum time that the volume in the control track
can be below the specified threshold before the volume in the selected tracks
is faded up again.
4. The time over which the volume in the selected tracks is faded down to the
reduced volume is made up of two parts: the time before and the time after the
time when the volume in the control track exceeds a threshold. These are known
as the outer and inner fade down lengths.
5. Similarly, there are outer and inner fade up lengths.
6. The threshold is the volume in the control track which if exceeded causes
the volume in the selected tracks to be reduced.
Note that whatever value of maximum pause is set, it is always at least the sum
of the outer fade down and fade up lengths.
Note also that Undo (ctrl+z), and redo (ctrl+y) are very useful when playing
around with effects.
David.
----- Original Message ----
From: key stone <eloheem123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 13 April, 2010 4:20:41
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: New Tracks
Hi, I'm using Jaws 11 with Vista home premium; When starting a project I first
open a audio file if I wish to use it; when adding on I then import
Cntrl'shift'I; then proceed; I have figured out that Hitting solo or mute is
necessary for working with the new track.. Question: after creating a narration
track and importing some background music, I then go to the transport menu, go
down to "skip to start' home," and this should soften the background music and
play my narration in front until done, then increase the background music when
narration is done, right? This isn't working for me anymore.. Any help?
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bailes" <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:43 AM
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: New Tracks
Hi Eloh,
If you import an audio file, then audacity uses the name of the file as the
name of the track, so I'm not sure why this isn't happening in your case. A
couple of questions: which screen reader are you using? Secondly is this what
you are doing:
1. Opening or importing your first audio file.
2. Importing a second audio file (ctrl+shift+I).
Normally a screen reader only reads the track name as something like table
track 2 if a track has a default name: for example if you create a new empty
track using the add new sub menu on the tracks menu. Note that the number, in
this case 2, indicates the number of the track in the track table.
After you've imported a second track, if you start playback you'll hear both
tracks together. If you need to hear tracks on their own, then you can mute or
unmute the focused track using shift+u.
David.
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From: key stone <eloheem123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, 10 April, 2010 23:43:52
Subject: [audacity4blind] New Tracks
Hi, after importing a new audio file into the project Audacity isn't
recognizing it as a "Track," but it states it as "Table 2," witch it plays both
audio files simultaneously.. How do I get audacity to recognize the new audio
file as it's own track? Thanks, Eloh
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