Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]

[Gale_Andrews]

@AStarr

None of the above. I don’t want to gate. My noise floor is excellent, and I always pass.

No matter how quiet the recording, it is necessary to edit out audible breaths. Even Audible editors do it by cut and paste using clean room tone. Users of other programs can do it with a room tone track, but Audacity doesn’t seem capable of it.

Can you answer my question? Is there a way to swap or replace audio between tracks?

No, you can’t tell the Silence Generator what to generate. It generates zero amplitude samples (absolute silence).

Long method: assuming your room tone track is the length of your speech track, do the following using UP/DOWN arrow to change the track focus and ENTER to toggle the focused track’s selectedness:

1. Select the breath you want to replace.
2. ENTER to deselect the breath.
3. UP arrow on your computer keyboard.
4. ENTER to make the same selection in your room tone track.
5. COMMAND + C to copy
6. ENTER to deselect the room tone.
7. DOWN arrow.
8. ENTER to select in the speech track.
9. COMMAND + V to paste in the speech track.

Shorter method: Use the Punch Copy/Paste Nyquist plugin. You only need to copy the room tone once, then paste using the “Looping” method so that the paste always fills the selection rather than shortening or lengthening it. See here for how to install Nyquist plugins: Missing features - Audacity Support.


Gale