I completed an overdubbing session and now I need to trim The Performance so the first note of the music is the first thing in the show. It’s not. I don’t want the lead-in and chair shuffling.
Assume I want to do this in the multi-track show, not the stereo mixdown.
Selecting all the tracks doesn’t do it. How do I drag-select the portion I don’t want and have all 37 tracks delete in exactly the same place?
MacBook Pro
OS-X 10.5.8 Leopard
Audacity 1.3.12
Koz
You can click/drag across multiple tracks if they all fit onto one screen, but with 37 tracks they won’t.
The laborious method:
The clever way:
37 tracks they won’t
I think they will with Fit Tracks Vertically.
Koz
I can’t get more than 11 tracks with “Fit Vertically” without removing toolbars.
Amplifying Steve’s point, while the drag-select downwards will stop when you get to the bottom of the visible tracks, you can help it along by dragging down on the vertical scrollbar then dragging down the region again from the last track the region was selected in. Of course, it should simply continue scrolling down.
My method:
1 Click in the first track at 0.5 seconds
2 hold down SHIFT, HOME, hold down DOWN ARROW, release SHIFT and DOWN ARROW.
Gale
1 Click in the first track at 0.5 seconds
Or whichever track is considered the “master” or “important” track. We assume the first track is the click or some other throw-away utility track.
Koz
With nimble enough fingers you can also click/drag and scroll down with the mouse wheel at the same time.
That’s neat - I keep forgetting about SHIFT+Up/Down cursor key.
I suppose that logically Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down cursor key should move the vertical selection the other way (it doesn’t).