Hi Orlando and thanks David. I am a clutz indeed. For some reason, my
foggy brain did not grasp the rather tricky terms, "Clip left" and "Clip
right" (smile). Having revisited the Extras Menu, all is now clear.
I then went to Preferences and set a hotkey for clip left and clip right.
As Audacity used alt-comma for previous clip and alt-fullstop for next clip,
I used shift-alt-comma to move the clip left and alt-shift-fullstop to move
it right. I recorded a short item on one track and copied to a second
track. At the end of the recording on the second track I went to Clip
Boundaries under the Edit Menu and split. Using my newly assigned key
combinations, I could then move the clip on the second track back and forth.
Because both tracks started exactly in time, it was easy to put them back
there.
Orlando, as long as you start with the tracks reasonably well aligned, you
should not have too much trouble making the adjustment. As David said,
adjusting zoom level will determine how much each key press causes the clip
to move.
The process I described above will not let you move a clip if it is butted
up against an adjacent clip. That is different to Reaper, which will allow
an item to trample over an adjacent item.
Re the align tracks option, you will find several possibilities. I suspect
you will want to align to cursor if a big adjustment is needed. Then tweak
by moving the clip.
Andrew
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: nudging tracks in real time
Hello David.
concerning moving clips in Audacity. You can do this using the clip
left/right commands which are on the Cursor sub menu of the Extra menu.
The documentation in the manual for these commands is on this page:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/extra_menu_cursor.html
and this is a link to the section of my guide for users of screen readers:
http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.3.2-Guide.ht
ml#time-shifting-clips
If the zoom is set to normal (ctrl + 2), then the step size by which these
commands move a clip is just over one hundredth of a second. Pressing
ctrl + 3 to zoom out doubles the step size, and pressing ctrl + 1 halves
the step size.
Unfortunately, as is the case for the align commands and insertingsilence, >these commands can't be used to affect the playback in real time.
