Re: [Audacity-devel] More Audacity tests...
A free multi-track audio editor and recorder
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From: Anthony A. O. <ai...@gm...> - 2004-07-09 03:11:40
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Congratulations on being Project of the Month on Sourceforge. :) On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:09:33 -0700, Dominic Mazzoni wrote: >> I would be surprised if other multitrack software makes "delete" >> affect inter-track timing. What I think region-based editors usually >> do is let you delete whole regions. If you want to delete part of a >> region, you split the region and delete the one you don't want. And >> naturally, deleting a region won't move the regions around it. >Yes, that's correct. A lot of multitracking programs work this way. I >always found it unintuitive and I specifically did not want Audacity to >work that way. That's not to say that I don't want to support this >style of workflow; I just don't want to use very commonly understood >metaphors like Cut, Delete, etc. in a different way than just about >every other program. The default behaviour for region based multitrackers is to remove the selected material without affecting anything surrounding it. Protools has a mode specifically for sliding up material this way, and it's called "Shuffle". It is usefully mostly only in dialog editing and grid-based loop editing. If you want to support both, I suggest you implement it in a similar fashion, supplying a 'SLIP' mode(name in Protools) and a 'SHUFFLE' mode, where audio automatically moves the trailing audio up to the preceding material. The only editors I've ever used that default to closing the gap this way are two-track editors like Soundforge. There it is natural for this behaviour to occur, but noboy expects it anywhere else. Take care Tony |