INTRODUCTION
Hello Guys. I am Daniel Barboza. I live in Zulia, Venezuela. This lesson is for week 2 of Introduction to Music Production at Coursera.org. I will be teaching “Perform the important editing tasks in your DAW including: trim, separate, crossfade, merge, grid, cycle, markers, zoom, name and color”. Applied on Adobe Audition as Digital audio workstation (DAW).
GRAPHIC INTERFACE
This is the graphic interface for Adobe Audition Cs6
A LITTLE THEORY
Every time we record, we create two things. We're creating an audio file, which lives in the Audio Files folder , and we are creating a region or clip inside the DAW. It's a reference to it, and region has certain parameters unique from the audio file, and I can take a large portion of the audio file or a small portion of the audio file. The region is something that's in our DAW, and the audio file is the data that lives on our hard drive in a separate location. The reason this is important, is because much of the editing you do is to the regions themselves and not to the audio files, and we call this non-destructive editing.
A LITTLE BIT OF THEORY
Region or clip inside the DAW
Audio Files on Hard drive
TRIM Trimming or edge editing in the DAW, It is trimming edges of a region or clip, at the beginning or end. Full clip
Trimmed Clip
You just have to position the pointer on the lower edge of the clip to activate the trimming function.
SEPARATE This is the clip section to create a new region. This is done to move and relocate to its new position. This is done through a command button, scissors or razor tool Full clip
In audition is accessed by the R key, then select the clip to separate, or pressing Ctrl + K
SEPARATE Razor tool
Separate region
CROSSFADE
To avoid that, we take both clip and join so that cross creating a crossfade. This prevents the change from one region to another is heard, or bumps, sudden or abrupt frequency is heard
Full clip
CROSSFADE
To do this you must select the clip and position the pointer on the upper edge of input, output or between clips. then move it to where you want.
Clip Crossfade
MERGE
There comes a time in the mix we have many small regions with crossfades. The best we can do is create a new audio track. But before we do that, we have to take into account that also create a new audio file on your hard drive. We must be careful before creating this new file called merge or consolidation, because if this method is a destructive editing
MERGE Regions with crossfades
New Region (Merge or Consolidated)
GRID
Another important task is to move the regions from left to right. We may find sometimes that can jump to move in steps and sometimes moving smoothly. This is because every DAW has a grid feature. Very often we find that we want to move regions to the right place to fit with the rest of the song. There are many ways in which we can achieve this. Each DAW may be different when using the grid.
GRID On Audition is done by activating switch setting and then moves the region with the mouse, and to be more precise we press Ctrl + Shift + left click and then drag the region Switch setting
Moved Region
CYCLE
When we're recording or editing in the DAW, will times we need to repeat a section of the song, many times to correct details. This is called cycling
CYCLE
We chose the time selection tool, below we are positioned in the area to repeat, we select it with the mouse and then we go to the reproduction bar and we activate the cyclic repetition.
MARKERS A marker is defining a specific location within your song. markers are great for locating for easy location of the Intro, verses, a chorus, a bridge or an outro. It's important to put markers in and be able to name them.
Here it would be difficult to find a specific part of the song
MARKERS
Move the playhead to the chosen area and press the M key. Right click and rename the new marker
ZOOM The zooming, it's really necessary very often to zoom way in, make a small edit, and then zoom way back out. Sometimes there's a specific zoom tool, like a magnifying glass, or through keyboard shortcuts. There's nothing worse than zooming way in, and then trying to scroll back and forth to find the thing you're trying to edit, So select first and then zoom.
ZOOM You can access via the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + scroll wheel mouse section to extend horizontally. Via the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + scroll wheel mouse section to extend vertically, or using magnifying glass.
NAME AND COLOR When working with a large project, you may be a bit tricky to locate regions, to avoid this, it's handy to be able to name and color your regions.
Suppose all the clip has the same color and are bad named. It would be very difficult to try to locate an any region and more to find an audio clip on failure
NAME Clip name
Name audio file
Track name
COLOR Right click and select Color Clip / group
CONCLUSIONS AND THANKS
The theme already knew, but nevertheless was quite long because I had to do it in pdf. I could have made an explanatory video, but I had problems with my computer, and I decided to do it this way.
I worked hard on this and I would love to know if I got everything right. Is there anything I missed or could have explained better? What do you think of the audio recording? Thank you for watching and critiquing Thanks for reading Sincerely Daniel Barboza
