Remove Wrong Note

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Concert band recording. Trumpet starts to come in a measure early. Just one toot. Can I remove it with Audacity? Thanks.

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Assuming that this is a mono or stereo recording (not a multi-track recording), the options are very limited. It “may” be possible to reduce that one note with “spectral editing”, so I would try this first, but otherwise the options are:

  • Get the orchestra to play a few bars including the bad part, and edit the new recording into the full recording
  • Delete a section (a whole number of bars), and perhaps no-one will notice
  • If there’s a similar section elsewhere in the music you could copy from one part of the music to overwrite the bad part.

Spectral editing in Audacity is primitive, but “may” be enough (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectral_selection.html)
There are other programs with much more advanced tools, such as “melodyne by celemony” (about $700), or ISSE (free). To find related software, try searching for “source separation software” and “spectral editing software”.

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Are there any updates to this in the last year? I am new to Audacity wanting to see if it does what I need before committing to the software. I create MIDI files on a device, read them into audio software (now Audacity), then want to do basic editing of the tracks like removing notes, adding notes, deleting sections of the track, then save the file back into MIDI format to play back on devices. I’m running Audacity Ver. 2.3.2 on Windows 10 Pro, 16 GB RAM, on-board sound. Can hear tracks playing in Audacity when file is imported into project. If I can’t easily edit notes I need to use different software.

Thank you - Eric

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Are there any updates to this in the last year?

Probably nothing related to this. Audacity is still an audio program (not MIDI).

I am new to Audacity wanting to see if it does what I need before committing to the software.

It’s FREE so there’s not much “commitment”. And, there’s nothing wrong with using Audacity for some tasks and other applications for other tasks.

I create MIDI files on a device, read them into audio software (now Audacity), then want to do basic editing of the tracks like removing notes, adding notes, deleting sections of the track, then save the file back into MIDI format to play back on devices.

That’s best done in a DAW or other application that works directly in MIDI. You might want to try [u]Cakewalk[/u] which is now FREE, or a [u]different DAW[/u].