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January 9, 2020
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Audition - My delete key splits instead of deletes

  • January 9, 2020
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I'm desperate. In Audacity I can easily highlight a section of audio, hit the delete key, and it just takes out the highlighted part like it was never there, leaving the track as one track. In Audition I do the same thing and it takes out the highlighted audio and leaves me two pieces of audio with a gap in the middle. And while I'm here, I have two voices on a stereo track, left and right. I want to be able to edit those independently. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that in Audition. If there is I'd love to know how. 

 

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Kyle Hannan - Multimedia
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January 12, 2024

I agree that Audacity does things in a simpler, more instinctive and much more efficient way than trying to do the same with Audition. 

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    January 9, 2020

    Doesn't do that here - if you hit the Delete key on a selection, it removes it and joins remaining audio. The Backspace key should do the same thing, FWIW.

     

    As for editing stereo tracks independently, that's easy - but you have to remember that if you try to remove time from one track of a stereo file, it will only silence it - and that's correct. How do you do it? In Waveform view, at the end of each track on the right are two little squares marked L and R. If you click on one of these, it will grey out that channel, so any operations you carry out (with the exception of actually cutting something out of it) will apply to that channel only.

    Comworld
    ComworldAuthor
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    January 9, 2020

    Thanks, Steve. I don't want to silence it. I want to move it. I want to do an L-edit, bring one voice on top of the other. Is there a way to do that. And on the delete key, is there some shortcut setting I can change to get mine to do what yours does?

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    January 9, 2020

    You have to bear in mind that Audition is a lot more flexible than Audacity is, and doesn't require to do strange things with files in Waveform view - you have way more flexibility if you do this in Multitrack, which Audacity doesn't have. Firstly split your stereo file into two mono files - Edit>Extract Channels to Mono Files. Then start a default stereo session, create two mono tracks in it and place your files on each of them. If you shove them up to the LHS to start with, they'll be sample-accurate. Now you can cut, replace, overlap, swap or repeat anything from either channel until you are happy with the result. Either export or mix down the final result and your're done. And if you save the session, you can go back and redo it if you change your mind. I'd say that compared to Audacity, that was pretty flexible...

     

    As far as the Delete key goes, the only thing I can think of is this:

    I had to create this to achieve what you appear to have as a default. You can check yours by opening the Keyboard Shortcuts (Alt+K) and using the search function, as above. Just as an experiment, I reassigned the Delete key to silence audio rather than delete it, and that's the only way I could achieve this (note the warning at the bottom). If yours doesn't look like this then I suppose that it's possible that something external has re-mapped your keyboard but that seems to be rather unlikely, I think. Anyway, have a look at how it's assigned...

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