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allington76
Participant
June 6, 2019
Question

Selecting multiple parts of the same file

  • June 6, 2019
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Hello all,

I'm dealing with a situation where I'd like to select multiple portions of one file and then add them to mulit-track all at once

Is there a way I can highlight multiple parts of one file? in the same way I can select audio files to add all at once?  In this case I'd like to add multiple selected bits of one file.

many thanks!

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Participant
August 8, 2024

true, i want to select those parts between spoken sentences, and do some bizzare noise reduction (which would be terribly wrong if done on the spoken part), but this software just don't allow us to make multiple selection, even when ERA bundle plugin CAN do select multiple when i ran deEsser

_durin_
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 6, 2019

In this case, I would recommend finding the sections you want to use in the original recording in Waveform view, selecting each section and adding as a new marker. Markers with duration (made from a time selection instead of a single point) can be dragged into a multitrack project as clips from the Markers panel. There's a toggle in the Markers panel to show makers for all files, instead of just the active one. When enabled, you can select one or more marker ranges from the file, then drag or insert them into the MT timeline en masse. ALT/OPTION modifier keys will allow you to specify whether to place them on a single track in order of selection, or at the same starting position on multiple tracks.

Participant
September 17, 2021

Right, but how do you select another part of the same track without the first selection disappearing? (I have tried various modifier keys, but so far nothing has worked.)

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 17, 2021

You don't - you select the marker ranges from the marker list, as Durin said - you can pick up as many as you created and place them all in Multitrack, either on a single track or across multiple tracks. When you've highlighted the list, right-click on it and you get the insertion option.