[Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions

[Brett Clark]

> probably the faster "handmade" way will be :
> - set the edit point on mouse
> - grow the height and wide of the track to see the sound / silence
> difference (Ctrl+mouse roll and Cap+mouse roll)
> - put the mouse pointer after 1st sound ending
> - press s to split
> - put the mouse pointer before 2nd sound start
> - press s to split
> -click on the silence region
> -press del
> ---------------------------and repeat many times the 6 last lines !!


The original request was to make the actual wav file smaller.  Splitting
regions doesnt effect the size of the wav file.

--Brett




On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM, fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:

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> Le 05/10/2011 13:19, roaming.book at googlemail.com a écrit :
>
> When recording a live performance I have all the tracks in record for the
> length of the piece. Each instrument and effect has it's own track. When an
> instrument only plays for a short time this leaves a lot of unused silence
> in the audio files. Deleting this unused space would save me considerable
> amount of disk space and make backups to DVD easier.
>
>  i want the regions left exactly where they are, where they were played,
> to they remain in sync with the rest of the material.
>
>
> probably the faster "handmade" way will be :
> - set the edit point on mouse
> - grow the height and wide of the track to see the sound / silence
> difference (Ctrl+mouse roll and Cap+mouse roll)
> - put the mouse pointer after 1st sound ending
> - press s to split
> - put the mouse pointer before 2nd sound start
> - press s to split
> -click on the silence region
> -press del
> ---------------------------and repeat many times the 6 last lines !!
>
> If someone here have a beter idea, please tell,
> Fred
>
>
>
>  Brett suggested "tape mode" so I'm going to look that up in the manual
> and test it it .
>
>  Thanks again for replies,
>
>  Jeremy
>
>
>
>
>
>  On 5 Oct 2011, at 12:08, Nando wrote:
>
> Could it be that the work you're doing is better addressed by a wave editor
> like Audacity? Does your recording need to be in sync with other tracks?
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Brett McCoy <idragosani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:30 AM, roaming.book at googlemail.com
>> <roaming.book at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for swift replies. Session/Cleanup only cleans up entire audio
>> files that are unused.
>> >
>> > I would like delete just the unused audio.
>> >
>> > Thanks for an suggestions or tips
>>
>>  I don't think there is anything in Ardour that deletes portions of
>> audio files that aren't used.
>>
>> --
>> Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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