This will be my only post as I find it hard to believe there is not a more straightforward DAW out there. As a newcomer to this platform, and having not recorded music for 20 years, I have found out the answers to the many obstacles this software throws up not from the Audacity tutorial but from You tube. The most fun was spending hours establishing that the timeshift doesn’t work on pause as I sat baffled by this sudden failure to move tracks etc (and it took a while to ascertain what had replaced the timeshift tool). But I have just returned to a project I saved, when I closed down earlier, only to find that having spent ages learning how to move clips around, and align them etc., the saved project is as it was before I did all that probably due to some other secret I don’t know about. Memo to people who know how this stuff works - you are absolutely useless at telling those who don’t what to do. You’d need to know almost as much as those who prepared the tutorial in order to understand it. Byeee
Well goodbye then Robert - but we’re sorry to see you go …
But before you go can you please explain your use case for needing to move a Clip when in Pause mode?
Do you also need to move a clip during playback?
Peter.
I’m one of the folk who happens to think that the new mechanism of using the drag-bars to move the clips is much more useful than having to switch away from the Selection tool to the Time-shift tool and then back to the Selection tool (I always found that annoyingly clunky).
Peter.
Most of them are fiendishly complicated - I use Reaper from time to time (or rather I try to use it to compare how they do it compared to Audacity) and I really struggle.
Having said that, Reaper’s scrubbing is much easier, intuitive and user-friendly than Audacity’s.
Peter
Well this bit totally baffles me, it never happens with my saved and re-opened projects.
Peter.