Hi all,
first of all thanks for the great software!
Wanted to report a bug, but I see you fixed it in the Alpha already. (the one that a track loses focus on Alt+Tab)
So now I have a question about this use case:
I am working on my voice, and I am looking for a tool to rapidly record and playback, then record again, like 100 times in a row.
Though I found several ways to do that, all involve punching multiple key combinations each time.
This is a problem, because one gets distracted having to think about keyboard combinations (instead of concentrating on their voice or musical instrument, which is a thing that requires concentration)
Can anyone suggest a streamlined way to achieve this iterative record-playback-record? Involving one key-press for each step?
Best way I found is to open a New window after each record+playback, then kill the 100 windows with ‘killall audacity’.
Another would be automatic track overwriting, but I understand this is explicitly disabled (or am I wrong?)
Thank you for your reply! (I just came in to see it, unfortunately no e-mail notifications)
This is indeed a nifty way to do this, I agree.
However I still think it falls short of what I feel is needed for this rapid kind of rehearsing.
Problem is, for each playback, one needs to hit space and then seek on the Timeline with a mouse.
As I mentioned, I’m looking for something that is done easy, so that it does not divert concentration. Exactly 1 key between each human action (recording<->listening)
Here is the difference I see:
Pressing a keyboard key is easy. It is always there and is very easy to hit.
Seeking a position on the Timeline requires being accurate in pinpointing on a thin, dynamically progressing band. This requires quite some concentration and can be especially hard when working with anything but an expensive mouse or mac touchpad.
Should I instead request some kind of feature here? Should require literally just 1 or 2 optional key binds.
I ave spent a good deal of time looking into those, and didn’t find what I was looking for.
Can you be more specific about which shortcut exactly achieves what I am talking about?
That implies doing a Ctrl+A, which makes a total of 4 keys on top of hitting space to start\stop. That’s a heck of a lot of keys to press each time.
My best option seems to remain hitting Ctrl+N for each recording, then killing all instances with a shell command (so I don’t have to press “Discard” 30 times)
I was thinking that I might create a macro to do this: Cursor To Track End, Record; this records at the track end, but when the space key is pressed the cursor reverts to the start of the time line.
Similarly, I tried to create a selection by wrapping Set Left/Right Selection around the Record Command, but the space key seems to abort the macro and then end of the selection never gets set.