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July 29, 2018
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Swapping which track is being recorded to live

  • July 29, 2018
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Hi,

I am a voice over artist that records audiobooks. I have started using audition and have thought of a feature I would like but am not sure if its possible. I have one input (my microphone) and I want to have a multi-track set up with my microphone recording to one track. The tricky part is that I want to be able (ideally via hot key) to switch which track of the multi-track my microphone is recording to.

This is helpful for character voices. I would record the narration in one track and have separate tracks for each character voice. Whenever a character came up, I would like to be able to hit a specified hot key and change it so that things are no longer recorded in track 1 but now in track 2. when I hit a different hot key the recording would swap back to track 1.

The result would hopefully look something like this:

Track 1) -------------       -----------      ----------

Track 2)                  -----

Track 3)                                       -----

This is helpful as I can then easily apply different EQ to each character voice.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Kevin J. Monahan Jr.

Voraces,

Thanks for your thoughtful request. In order for the developers to be aware of it, please make your feature request here: Audition: Hot (158 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks!
Kevin

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Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Correct answer
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August 16, 2018

Voraces,

Thanks for your thoughtful request. In order for the developers to be aware of it, please make your feature request here: Audition: Hot (158 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks!
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
ryclark
Participating Frequently
July 29, 2018

That might be a bit tricky. However it might be worth requesting it as a new feature.

The current way of doing this would be to record all the dialogue on the one track and then select and split out the various character's audio to another track after recording. to assist with this you can use the F8 keyboard shortcut to drop markers on the fly to make it easier to find split and isolate each character post recording.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 29, 2018

Do you really have to go through all that? You can set up any track to record from the same source easily - so why do you have to do anything more than just hit the appropriate record-enable button and disable it afterwards? Or am I missing something?

VoracesAuthor
Participant
July 29, 2018

Is there a way to give each track a hot key to enable and disable it?