On 29/06/2019, Orlando Enrique Fiol <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 08:43 AM 6/28/2019, Robert Hänggi wrote:
>Here's yet another thing that can help with aligning tracks.
>Often enough, the start of a track doesn't have enough content to
>determine how well the tracks are aligned.
>You could therefore add these steps to Andrew's procedure:
>0 assign a shortcut to "Align at Cursor", just press Shift+Enter on
>that menu entry to go directly to its keyboard preferences.
Clever! I didn't know that could be done.
>1. remove any silence that is before the start of track 2 (select it,
>followed by Control+Alt+K to delete without moving)
Delete without moving? Anything deleted inherently moves.
>2. When you're on the second track, go to a playback position that
>let's you easily judge the alignment.
>3. lock the play region (Transport -> Play Region -> Lock)
Why?
Yes, track one will be fixed and track two moves, without it, it is
>4. jump to the start of track two (with j).
>5. use the arrow keys to move the cursor and align the tracks.
>6. On playback, you will always hear the same position, previously
defined.
Because of the region lock?
>Don't forget to unlock the play region after you're satisfied with the
>alignment.
Right.
>I've assumed here that track one holds the whole song whereas in track
>two are the gaps.
>Where such a gap comes up, split the second track.
>If you use "Split new", everything to the right of the split point
>will be moved to a new track (at the same position)
>Thus, you can use the align track command there as well (don't forget
>to deselect tracks 1 and 2).
>This has the advantage that you can align, let's say 1 minute later.
>That's rather cumbersome if you do that with move clip left/right,
>needs a lot of zooming out.
I get that.
>But you can of course also use the clip move commands. It should
>actually work with multiple clips selected. That is, after splitting
>(on same track), you can extend the selection to the end of the track
>(Shift+K) and all clips within that selection should move as one.
>However, you can join the clips (Control+J) to be sure but don't
>include the one that is already aligned.
Good to know.
Orlando Enrique Fiol
Ph.D. in Music Theory
University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018
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