Ripple Delete

[jmarck70]

Real life scenario: 

I'm working on a multi-track project that's 20 minutes long
I'm almost done with my mix
I realize there's an "ummm" in the voicetrack (Track 2) that needs to be taken out
I have music and/or sound effects running under that on Tracks 3 and 4
I have a ton of stuff all lined up behind this and want everything to move over (ripple) once I take out the "ummm" 

I can't just do ripple delete time selection on selected track---because that'll only move everything on THAT TRACK, and all the other tracks will be out of sync
I can't do ripple delete time selection on all tracks---because it not only cuts the ummm from my track, it cuts everything on every other track directly above or below it! 

Just moved from Vegas (the program) where this was super easy: you snip the umm, everything to the left of the clip with the snip ripples, but you're not cutting other things on other tracks. 

What's the solution, or at least the best workaround? Thanks very much! 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

I don't quite get this - if you want to silence an 'umm' in one track without affecting anything else, why do you want to ripple-delete it at all? I think I need a clearer explanation of exactly what you're trying to achieve.

FWIW, if you go to the Keyboard Shortcuts menu and type 'ripple' into the search bar, you'll find five options. If none of those does what you want, then it probably isn't a ripple-delete you need at all.

[jmarck70]

Sorry for the confusion. I don't want to just silence the 'umm.' I want to get rid of it and ripple everything behind it. On all tracks. To cut out just the 'umm' and ripple everything behind it seems straightforward enough--use  ripple delete time selection on all tracks. BUT....if you have things on other tracks directly below what you're cutting, the audio on those other tracks will be cut out as well.  

Example: I want to cut out the umm on Track 1. But there's music running under that umm on Track 2. In the ripple delete time selection on all tracks mode, an "umm-sized" chunk will be taken out of the music on track 2 and rippled. So there will be an obvious-sounding skip in the music. 

It seems to me that in Audition I need to do a multi-step process: Make the cut FIRST (no ripples of any kind), THEN do a select clips to end of session. Then...grab the clip just to the right of where I cut out the 'umm' and everything from there to the end of the session will all pull together. 
Does that description make sense and sound about right?

If I knew how to make a little screen movie of how it works in Vegas and attach it I would (where the clip will cut and ripple, but nothing directly under that clip will cut and ripple, but everything to the right of those clips will ripple) . 

I appreciate your help very much. This is a tough transition for many of us in the shop, even though we're advanced audio editors with decades of experience. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

From what you are saying, I don't think you want to use select clips to the end of the session, because that will select all clips on all tracks forward of the cursor. If I've read it right, I think you need 'Select clips to the end of selected track'. Then you use Ripple Delete>Gap in selected track to close it up. You could easily assign keystrokes to both of these if you are going to use them regularly.

[default6kj5zv67gwta]

Have you figured this out? I'm trying to switch from Reaper to Audition. The inability to ripple edit all tracks after a time selection, excluding what's "already started" (that is, clips above or below the time selection), is one of the main things that's kept me from Audition. Seems like a small thing, but it's so easy in Reaper and I use that function constantly.

[default6kj5zv67gwta]

Closely related: "Ripple Delete Selected Clips" says it "Deletes the selected clips and shifts the content to fill the gaps". I assumed that was the content of the whole multitrack. But it was just the track the clip was on. So I've just done that and now everything after the deleted clip is no longer lined up. Is there a way to ripple delete a selected clip and have everything in the multitrack move left, rather than just everything in the track?

[alex_2329]

This is the same reason I've resisted Audition for so long. I'm the one person at my station who uses Reaper. Unfortunately, that's bad for collaboration. I would love for Audition to find a way to do what Reaper can do on that front. As it is, I "select clips to end of session" and that inevitably includes music that started before the relevant edit, and then that gets moved to start sooner than I wanted it to. I can lock the music clip in time, but then I forget to unlock it and it ends up out of place when I move a collection of clips. Remembering to lock and unlock everything for every edit is incredibly inefficient. Thankfully I'm not doing complex multitrack sessions these days; I don't know how I would handle that in Audition, for all the reasons folks have listed above.