How to have a pausing point

OfficialKage · Post by **OfficialKage** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:30 am

I'm a rapper And i would like to have a nice mute point. You know like when rappers spit their punchline the beat stops and you just hear them and then the beat continues ..

Post by **steve** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:33 pm

Upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13 (get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/)
Click on the track at the point where you want the pause, then "Edit > Clip Boundaries > Split" (or Ctrl+I).
Switch to the Time Shift tool (F5 key) and drag the right hand section to the right.
When you play back the track you now have a pause.

OfficialKage · Post by **OfficialKage** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:00 pm

Didn't understand after the split part..

Post by **steve** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:03 pm

Which version of Audacity are you using?

OfficialKage · Post by **OfficialKage** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:10 pm

1.3 . But i mean like pause the beat but keep my voicing going

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:58 pm

Right. That's we're talking about. It happens in post production, not in real time. You would record your vocal track and go back and split the backing track (two separate tracks) and push the backing track forward so there's a hole. During the hole, it's your voice with no track.

If your voice and the backing track are all one, you need to start over. Editing depends on you having separate tracks for everything.

You could also do it by playing the track but only rap until the split point. Then cut the split and play that and continue the voice as a third track. Mix together later.
Koz

Post by **kozikowski** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:59 pm

You could also split the backing track ahead of time and record the voice over that. That's probably the easiest.

Koz

OfficialKage · Post by **OfficialKage** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:08 pm

When I try to spit it and move it with time tool it won't move though.. Only my vocals do

Gale Andrews · Post by **Gale Andrews** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:45 pm

As I understand it you only want to split the backing track, so click above the Mute / Solo buttons in the backing track to select just that track, then split (CTRL + I) starting from the left so that you have somewhere to move the clip to.

Or click and drag to select a section for pause and silence (CTRL + L), or Edit > Silence Audio in 1.3.13, Edit > Remove Audio > Silence Audio in 1.3.14. But you don't get a separate clip for the silence that way. A clip can be useful because you can double-click in it to select it.

Gale

OfficialKage · Post by **OfficialKage** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:08 am

I just did silence and it worked thank you

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