<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM, <a href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>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. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think you can create new regions from the old ones by using "playhead" edit mode, then right-click->edit->split (at the bottom somewhere).<br><br>Do that around the audio you want to keep, and then select the regions that you don't need, hit del, and Session->cleanup like normal..?<br>
<br>Haven't tried it out here, but that should work AFAICS :) -Harry <br></div></div>