Good morning Andrew! I was listening to your instruction for this particular
task. I do this kind of thing all the time and I use alt T, for track. A four
align. Then see to move track to cursor. You used T. Is there a difference?
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On May 16, 2023, at 3:17 AM, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel, I am pretty sure that what you want is to align tracks. Track 1 is
your main track and you have music or whatever on subsequent tracks. Let’s
assume that they all start playing at once initially (what a noise).
Make sure that track 1 is selected and the rest are deselected.
Find the point on track 1 where you want the next track to start. Apart from
preserving your sanity, the order of the other tracks does not matter.
Having found the first point, deselect the track by pressing Enter.
Arrow to the track you want to start at that point and press Enter to select
it.
Press alt+t, a, t. To explain, alt+t opens the Tracks Menu, a opens the
Align Tracks option and t aligns the selected track to the cursor position.
Deselect that track, return to the first track and repeat until done.
I just tried it with several tracks and it works well. The benefit of having
your background tracks separate is that you can adjust their levels
individually and add effects to fit with the main track. Depending on the
number of background tracks, it can still be a tedious task, but you don’t
get something for nothing when it comes to doing things well.
One thing to keep in mind is that the process I described aligns the
beginning of the background track with the cursor position. If there is
silence at the beginning of the background track, you either need to remove
it or allow for it.
Shout if I have done more to confuse than enlighten. I suggest practising
before attacking the real material.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Daniel Martin
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:08 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] adding background sounds
Hi, everybody, I have a question related to adding or mixing background
sounds in Audacity. I currently use Studio recorder to copy and paste
background tracks into 1 main file and save it as 1 mp3 file. When I do this
its' called mixing the tracks together. I then use Audacity to clean it up
and add effects to it. This is a lot of work, but I really don't know how to
do this in Audacity. So my idea or thought was if track one is a voice
recording or voiceover voice how do I play tracks 2-10 in the correct spot
when all is said and done?
My thought was this and I'm not sure if there is a plugin or Audacity steps
that could do this. First off, the idea of adding silence in all of the
tracks and then trying to match them up based upon the time of the main track
does not excite me at all. Not sure if this is called mixing in Audacity or
if this can be done in Audacity. So, here is my idea:
with tracks 2-10 press enter on track 2 to select it and go to track 1 press
space until you find the spot and press x, then type a 2 press enter and
track 2 is marked or linked to the correct spot in track 1.
I would then do the same for each following track, for track 3 go to the
spot press x then type 3 press enter and track 3 is marked or linked to that
spot. I hope you get the idea? So, at the end of adding all of the tracks
they would be selected and would be marked to play at the correct spot when
you press j and then the space bar.
So, is this possible or just a pipe dream?
I realize that I'm missing some basic knowledge of audacity and this is able
to be done in the program, but is called something else. this
Thanks
Daniel
