Help with creating clip-fix macro

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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I’m trying to create a keyboard-launched macro that will:

  • select the waveform between the two nearest zero crosses
  • clip-fix that waveform

Problem is, the “select at zero crossings” [sic] only selects A SINGLE zero crossing, as far as I can tell. Anyone know of a trick to select the two nearest ones?

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The documentation for the Select At Zero Crossings command implies that if you start with a cursor position (not a selected region) then the cursor is moved to a nearby (not necessarily the nearest) zero-crossing point. If you start with a selection, then the edges of the selection are adjusted.

You should be able to get around this by first making a small selection around the cursor position. But then you might run into this bug:

You could experiment to find out how big the selection needs to be to avoid the bug. You might end up clip-fixing 2 or 3 cycles of the audio, but I don’t think that would be a disaster.

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This may do what you want.

Clipper.txt (114 Bytes)

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Also, Macros can’t make decisions. There is no If This then Do That. It’s not a terrific programming language.

Koz

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