moving up the all tracks

[musicman12]

I've recorded almost a full song of guitar parts with tracks and i was wondering if there was a way i could move the parts on each up ahead along the click so that i have extra space to add stuff at the beginning of the song for example or add a part in between two parts ive recorded already without having to re record everything

[kozikowski]

You can do some pretty amazing track manipulation, adding and subtracting tracks, cutting, pasting, and moving music earlier and later -- in Audacity 1.3.12.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both versions, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2.

Add a blank track:
Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track

Move music sooner and later:
Time Shift Tool (two left and right black arrows.

Add Silence at the cursor location:
Generate > Silence > set duration

Koz

[kozikowski]

When you start into heavy track management (editing) it's good to make protection copies of your show. Any time you play an instrument to capture in the computer, Export As WAV and make at least one copy of the performance on a thumb drive or external drive -- or data CD or data DVD.

You can save projects if you want to and when you get into multi-track work, you have very little choice, but Projects are not sound files and they're brittle and easily damaged. If your show is currently on one timeline beginning to end, Export As WAV. Then go crazy with extra tracks and overdubbing, etc. You can always go back to that one very high quality wav file if everything goes in the toilet.

And they might. Search the forum for: "I can't open my Audacity Project..."

Koz