Adding A Track

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi Folks,
My set up Laptop, Windows Vista, Audacity 2.
I record on my Zoom R16 and I’m experimenting with importing the tracks into Audacity for processing and editing.

Following earlier advice about adding reverb to a vocal track I add a new track and copy the vocals into the new track then add reverb and mix the two vocal tracks.

A minor irritation and I’m probably missing something. When I add the new track it always appears at the bottom of the exisitng tracks. To move it next to the track it’s relevant to I have to use the move track up controls several times. Is there any easier way of doing this.

Thanks

Mike

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Grab the track by the Track Control Panel and drag it to where you want it.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audio_Tracks#panel
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Track_Drop-Down_Menu
– Bill

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And if you have more tracks than will fit on one screen, use View…Fit Vertically (Ctrl+Shift+F) first to squeeze them all onto the one screen.

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Thanks,

I have also found out that if I name tracks say Guitar 1, Guitar 2, Vocal 1 , Vocal 1 reverb etc I can use sort tracks to place them in alphabetic order.

Mike

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Ctrl + shift + c(collapse tracks) is more convenient than ctrl + shift + f(fit vertically), because you can turn back to the previous track stretching state with ctrl + shift + x (expand tracks)

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That’s useful to know. Thanks!