Paste Mix Feature No Longer

Audacity 3 Help Forum
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I recall a few versions back there was a feature called Paste Mix. That was rather useful for correcting a split stereo track which had channel drop outs. I’d copy and paste a small segment of one channel directly over at the same original poisition of the opposing track. Since this feature no longer exists in 3.6.1, might anyone know of a newer method to solve this dilemma? Thanks

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That sounds like an old nyquist plugin called “repair_channel”.

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Thanks for your reply. To the best of my recollection, this was not a plugin. From the Edit menu there were (I believe) 3 options to Paste | Paste Mix and Paste At Original Position.

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The “latest version” work for me with Audacity 3.7.1. What’s the problem you are seeing?

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Following additional testing, there is one major caveat: The effect does NOT work correctly if the track has real-time “time stretch”. If real-time (“non-destructive”) time stretch has been used, it is necessary to “Mix and Render” the track before using this effect.

This problem is likely to affect many other plug-ins.

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It modifies both channels …
both channels change
Sounds like a delay is added to both.

Update: now I see the problem : “stereo simulation” was enabled.

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Ah yes, that will be it.

I’m not quite sure what is going on when the track has real-time stretch - can you figure it out @Trebor? One thing that confuses the issue is that when real-time stretch is applied, the visual waveform does not exactly match the sound - if you compare the visuals of a track with real-time stretch against a rendered copy of the stretched track, you will see that the waveforms don’t match.

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Thanks for the help and this repair suggestion should do the trick. However, the article subject title still remains unanswered regarding the Paste Mix feature No Longer. Regarding the real-time stretch, my recommendation is to render the track first into a WAV or FLAC re-open and then apply the Repair option

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WavePad feature ? , (not Audacity).