Track Editing Bug 1.3.8

[TSMusic]

I was working on a new song (first one in a long time) over the weekend. The tracks are acoustic guitar recorded in stereo (2 mikes). There was a lead track and a rhythm track. I was doing some adjustments to the rhythm track, deleting small time slices to bring the chords into sync better or inserting a small section of blank track to shift things to the right. I've done this a lot with previous versions (hey I ain't perfect!).

About 2/3's of the way through the song (the total song length was about 4:30) for some reason, when I deleted a section on the rhythm track, it would do the same on the lead track, even though I only had the area on the rhythm track selected. Same for inserting, it would insert across both tracks. I tried closing the project and starting again, same thing. If I went to an earlier spot or a later spot, same thing. I tried moving the rhythm track to the first position, same thing. I had a bass track so I stuck that in between the 2 guitar tracks, it would STILL do the insert and delete on the other guitar track.

I wound up splitting the tracks and making them mono, exported them as 24 bit WAV files, then imported them back into Audacity (after closing out the project) and I was able to finish (which I would do anyways because I do my mixing in Cubase SE).

Very aggravating. I don't know if anyone else has had this problem or not. I'm running Win XP SR2, 2 gigs of RAM and lots of hard drive space (dedicated music drive). Audacity is installed on the music drive.

FWIW

Tony

[Gale Andrews]

About 2/3's of the way through the song (the total song length was about 4:30) for some reason, when I deleted a section on the rhythm track, it would do the same on the lead track, even though I only had the area on the rhythm track selected. Same for inserting, it would insert across both tracks. I tried closing the project and starting again, same thing. If I went to an earlier spot or a later spot, same thing. I tried moving the rhythm track to the first position, same thing. I had a bass track so I stuck that in between the 2 guitar tracks, it would STILL do the insert and delete on the other guitar track.

Do you have linked label and audio tracks?


Gale

[TSMusic]

Do you have linked label and audio tracks? Gale

Nope, I don't use label tracks

Tony

[Gale Andrews]

Do you have linked label and audio tracks? Gale

Nope, I don't use label tracks

Tony

Please give steps 1, 2, 3 to reproduce from launch, and preferably screenshots too. It doesn't make much sense unless Audacity thinks linking is on or tracks are selected when they are not.


Gale

[TSMusic]

Please give steps 1, 2, 3 to reproduce from launch, and preferably screenshots too. It doesn't make much sense unless Audacity thinks linking is on or tracks are selected when they are not.
Gale

I'll work with it over the weekend and get back to you then

Tony