<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I have also wondered about this question.<br></span></div><div><span>I would say select the part of the file you want to use (using range and snap to) and bounce down to create another file,</span></div><div><span> place the new file in the track and then delete the original if you need to.</span></div><div><span>I bounce all the time when using ardour but i dont usually throw away the original, just in case.</span></div><div><span>I believe that bouncing down (without processing) doesn't sacrifice any quality but i'm not entirely sure about that.</span></div><div><span>Nick<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
 style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brett McCoy <idragosani@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "roaming.book@googlemail.com" <roaming.book@googlemail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> ardour-users@lists.ardour.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11:19<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions<br></font><br>On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:08 AM, <a ymailto="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com" href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a><br><<a ymailto="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com" href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Is there a way of deleting unused regions and then deleting unused portions of audio file?<br><br>Session->Cleanup<br><br>-- <br>Brett W. McCoy -- <a
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