Keeping tracks in sync after deletion

[st33ve]

Suppose I have a project that's 5 minutes long and has 3 tracks. Track 1 runs the full 5 minutes. Tracks 2 and 3 are short snippets that overlap the first track, and neither one starts until after 3:00.

Now I want to delete a segment from the first minute (which only involves Track 1). I can't select the same time segment in all 3 tracks (for deletion), since Tracks 2 and 3 haven't started yet. And if I just delete the segment from Track 1, Tracks 2 and 3 are now out of sync with Track 1.

I know of several somewhat cumbersome ways to both accomplish the deletion and have the 3 tracks remain in sync. Is there a quick and easy way?

[waxcylinder]

You will need all tracks to start from Time=0 - my guess is that your tracks 2 and 3 just start when they start? If that is the case you can fix this bit by selecting track 2 only and doing a "Quickmix" on it - this will insert silence before your track so that it starts from zero. Similarly track 3.

Then the more general point of deleting from multi-tracks so that things stay in synch relative to each other. To do this all you need to do is select in the top track and then drag across and downwards - this will select the same time segment from all tracks. Then do do the delete do not use the Delete key but rather use Edit>Delete or use shortcut Ctrl + K.

Note this this multi-track deletion also works on label tracks and is the way of keeping your labels in synch with the tracks when you need to make deletions after labelling.

WC

[st33ve]

Thanks for the reply. The Quick Mix trick was just the kind of shortcut I'd been hoping for.