Re: [Audacity-devel] Simpler way to add reverb-like effects to track?

[<Mar...@ao...>]

 
Markus
 
This is pretty normal, I think, although reducing the number of steps would  
be desirable.  (How many times have I told my students to leave time for  the 
reverb tails, be it on tape or computer?)
 
You can speed operations up a little by not changing tools and using the  
keyboard.  Here is my suggestion, with a couple of ideas of changes that  could 
be made:
 
1. Select word in first track
2. Edit / Duplicate (I think this is just  a typo) (Ctrl+D)
3. Down arrow - Enter/Return - Up arrow
4. Ctrl+L
5. In the second track, click anywhere to the right of the new clip.
6.  Create/Silence/OK. (Ctrl+L could 'Generate Silence' here in the selected  
(blank) region of the selected track)
7. Select (click-sweep  mouse over) end of new 'word' and new 'silence'
8. Edit Join Ctrl+J
9. Double-click on new clip (now with silence)
10. Do  Effect/Echo (or Reverb, or whatever) (Could continue effect into the  
space after the clip, if  there is any, not easy)
11. Select  All, then "Mix and Render".
 
HTH
Martyn

In a message dated 06/11/2006 18:09:47 GMT Standard Time, me...@me...  
writes:

Hi,

imagine the following use case: User has a vocal track and  wants to add
an echo/reverb effect to a certain word/phrase (as is common  e.g. with
electronic music). However, the user can't just select the word  he wants
to add reverb, too, because then the reverb effect will stop at  the end
of the phrase. To do this properly, I found a way which involves no  less
than 11 (!!) steps in Audacity 1.3.2 (in Audacity 1.2.5 this only  needs
8 steps, but still too many):

1. Select word in first  track
2. Edit/Copy into new track. A new track is created, both tracks  are
then selected.
3. Click on track head of new track with shift down  => only first track
is selected
4. Edit/Silence
5. In the second  track, click anywhere to the right of the new clip.
6.  Create/Silence/OK.
7. Use Time Shift Tool to move "silence" clip to the  left until it hugs
the other clip.
8. Click on black line to join both  clips.
9. Choose Selection Tool again and double-click on new clip (now  with
silence)
10. Do Effect/Echo (or Reverb, or whatever)
11. Select  All, then "Mix and Render".

Any (implementable) ideas to make this more  user-friendly?


Markus


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