Remove first two seconds from every track [SOLVED]

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Remove first two seconds from every track [SOLVED]

Post by thickage » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:06 pm

During the building of my tune, some of the tracks ended up before "time zero" - Audacity automatically corrected latency in my recording. So, I ended up giving myself some room to play around with as I built the rest of the tracks. That said, now I need to remove a couple of seconds from each track.

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Re: Remove first two seconds from every track

Post by steve » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:01 am

The easiest way is if you shift all of the tracks together to the right so that you can see the start of each track.

To do that, Ctrl+A (select All)
then with the Time Shift tool, drag the tracks to the right a bit (does not matter if you move them a bit too far, as long as you can see the start).

Now to delete the start from all tracks:

Select the part that you want to delete in one track.
Then press Ctrl+shift+k to extend the selection to all tracks ("Edit > Select > In all tracks")
Then extend the selection to time = 0.0 with Shift+Home key
Then press the Del key to delete.
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Re: Remove first two seconds from every track [SOLVED]

Post by thickage » Fri Oct 17, 2014 5:28 pm

Perfect, thanks!

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