Split Raw-Files and save them

[Moritzw]

Hi dear Auditionists.

I'm new at using Audition and got a really basic question.

I recorded 13 tracks on a multitrack session. I just kept recording during our band session, so those tracks are about 2h long.

Now I would like to split the raw files into seperate files using Audition.

I know that I am able to "cut"/delete and rearrange my raw tracks into "songs", but it never affects the raw .wav-file on my computer nor did I find a way to save those rearrangements into new files.

I do not want to save a mixdown or something similar, I just want to split the original recordings.

How can I manage that?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Moritz

[paulfigg]

File/Export - Multitrack Mixdown/Entire Session ->> Mixdown Options ...

-paul.

@produceNewMedia

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Moritzw  wrote

I know that I am able to "cut"/delete and rearrange my raw tracks into "songs", but it never affects the raw .wav-file on my computer nor did I find a way to save those rearrangements into new files.

I'm afraid that the above answer isn't quite correct... Yes you can export the tracks individually, but that doesn't help with splitting the originals. The whole point of multitrack view is that inherently it's non-destructive, so it cannot make any alterations to original files. Actually splitting the originals isn't a good idea (you should leave raw material intact), but you can actually have your cake and eat it, because you don't have to do exporting of the whole session - what you can do is export time selections, rather than the entire files, as individual tracks. This works for mixdowns too.

So you make a time selection using the mouse of just the part that you want to export or mix down:

And that will mix down just the time selection to a new file.

Now, this hasn't split the original files, and as I said, it won't. But this is a good thing; you have them to go back to. What you can do though, is use the same time selection in a slightly different way:

This will give you individual files for each song, rather than just the whole lot in one file. So you still have your original recorded files, but you also have sample-accurate splits of all of them too.

[ryclark]

Yet another possible way is to use the mouse to select each complete song, use Control A to select all tracks and Trim to Time Selection. Then Save As with song name to save a new session for that one song. Then Undo by going back to the top the History list to bring back your original full session. Repeat for the next song and so on. You will then end up with all your original files intact but a separate session for each song.

As with a lot of workflows in Audition it takes much longer to describe than actually action. Once you have done it a few times it takes no time at all.