Hi Andrew,
As Ted has already queried, I think that in step 5, you meant Alt+t, a, c,
rather than Alt+t, a, t.
It should be: Open tracks menu, open the Align tracks sub menu, and then
choose Start to Cursor/selection start.
David.
On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 09:17, 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).
1. Make sure that track 1 is selected and the rest are deselected.
2. 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.
3. Having found the first point, deselect the track by pressing Enter.
4. Arrow to the track you want to start at that point and press Enter
to select it.
5. 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.
6. 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
