Need help with creating a specific macro. I record affirmations. There could be 50 tracks within my recording file. I’m trying to create a macro that will 1st add 10 seconds of silence to the end of each track then, 2nd, align the tracks end to end, then 3rd, mix and render into one track. I can’t seem to get audacity to select every track and add the 10 seconds of silence…Can anyone assist me? Thanks.
You don’t need to write a macro for that. It can be done very quickly and easily without:
- Select All
- Cursor to track start
- Generate 10 seconds of silence
- Tracks menu > Align tracks > End to End
- Tracks menu > Mix and render
- Delete the first 10 seconds of silence.
You missed the point…I can do all that manually, but I want to create the macro to save time. Can you describe how to do that. And the 10 seconds of silence goes at the end of each track, not at the start.
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Steve
Most of it is as I described above. The only tricky bit is generating 10 seconds silence at the start, which is done by duplicating the first 10 seconds (copy and paste), then silencing the first 10 seconds.
SelectAll:
SelectTime:End="10" Start="0"
Copy:
CursProjectStart:
Paste:
Silence:Use_Preset="<Current Settings>"
Align_EndToEnd:
MixAndRender:
SelectTime:End="10" Start="0"
Cut:
CursProjectEnd:
Paste:
SelectAll:
Join:
Steve this macro worked…thanks…I got an error when I first used it, and ended up taking the tracks, select all, and move them 10 seconds to the right so there was room to paste. Thoughts??? and Thanks!!
Perhaps there is a bug in your version of Audacity, or your version is not fully compatible with this macro. I tested the macro on Audacity 3.6.4 on Linux.
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