<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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. </div><div><br></div><div>i want the regions left exactly where they are, where they were played, to they remain in sync with the rest of the material. </div><div><br></div><div>Brett suggested "tape mode" so I'm going to look that up in the manual and test it it . </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for replies, </div><div><br></div><div>Jeremy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 5 Oct 2011, at 12:08, Nando wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Brett McCoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:idragosani@gmail.com">idragosani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:30 AM, <a href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:roaming.book@googlemail.com">roaming.book@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thanks for swift replies. Session/Cleanup only cleans up entire audio files that are unused.<br>
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> I would like delete just the unused audio.<br>
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> Thanks for an suggestions or tips<br>
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</div>I don't think there is anything in Ardour that deletes portions of<br>
audio files that aren't used.<br>
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