Hello folks,
I have 700 or so voice clips of various lengths. I can create Macros and want to import all the files and at the press of a button want to apply several effects (EQ, Normalize etc).
At the moment if I “select all” Audacity adds silence to the end of the shorter tracks.
How do I stop this?
I can’t find a way of simply selecting tracks only.
The reason this happens is because Nyquist effects see selected empty space as “silent audio”.
Effects such as Graphic EQ, Normalize, Amplify, Noise Reduction,… are “built-in effects”, so they can avoid the problem because they have full access to clip boundaries.
Effects such as Low Pass filter, Legacy Limiter, Noise Gate, Delay,… are “Nyquist plug-in effects”. These effects do not have full access to the project structure, they just receive the selected audio from Audacity and return the processed audio.
The only ways to stop it are either:
- Don’t include empty space in the selection when applying Nyquist effects.
- Don’t use Nyquist effects.
In many cases the added silence isn’t a problem, but if it is, then delete it.
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