11 Basic Audio Editing Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video I'm going to show you how
to use audio clips and work with audio
clips in traction to get started I've
opened the browser I'm just gonna pull
in a drum beat
it's a wav file and I can just drop it
right on the track well wait before I do
that let's just take a look at this this
is 90 beats per minute if I click here
in the browser it actually shows me that
it's 90 beats approximately 90 beats per
minute in order to set that up in
traction then just click over here where
it actually shows the temple and then
you can change it right here so I'm just
going to change that to 90 so that this
better match is what we're working with
so I'll then drag this in here drop it
in kind of snaps in place and then let's
just see what we've got all right that's
pretty interesting now the core part of
the beat is right in here this is a
crash here and we've got kind of a
little beat with a kind of a fill
leading into what I would call the core
groove in this right here so one of the
things that you'll find in traction is
that if we have snap turned on which we
do right down here you can see Snap is
on as I drag from the header part then I
can position this and snap it in like
this if I want to drag to another track
I can do the same thing grab from the
header part when I get the cursor up
over the header it looks like a hand
then I can drag it down here and I have
snap on so that kind of stays
synchronized mostly but it's pretty easy
to get it out of sync
now let me turn snap off cue turn snap
off now if I drag down to another track
it's easy to get it a little bit out of
sync so my I'm a rearranging things I'm
dragging things track to track you don't
really necessarily want that to happen
I'm gonna undo that move so constrain
dragging is done by holding down shift
so I'm gonna hold shift while I drag
track to track and you'll see that I
can't get it out of sync that way so
adding shift constrains track to track
drags so we'll get this back up here and
put this back right here now we've got
tools on the header' this is a trim tool
this open hollow triangle is a trim tool
so if I pull that back I can trim and
I've got one on the back of the clip as
well so I can trim the back part of the
clip so let's trim this back to where
we're actually focused only on this one
grooved part of the beat to do that I'm
going to put snap back on that will keep
me framed up here nicely on the beat or
on the bar and see now I've trimmed it
up to where I've got just that one piece
of this so let's listen to that now if
we want a loop play back over that I
just need to bring it back here to bar
zero and then I'll drag in the out
marker to line that up and then I've got
looped play back on so let's play back
and see how that sounds
works really well so I'll rewind the
cursor at the beginning next thing I
want to do is show you how to do a split
or to split this up into more parts so
to split you position the cursor where
you want to make the split like say
right here and then you use the forward
slash and that just puts a split right
in there
and if I want to make another split say
split out this one snare beat then I can
make another split right here so that's
how you make a split now if you select
any clip when you have a multiple
selection like that you'll see it clears
the selection and selects the single
clip if you want to select multiple
clips at the same time you hold down
option and you can use the marquee tool
like this to make a multiple selection I
showed you that in the previous video
the other thing you can do is use the
Escape key to clear the selection now if
you wanted to duplicate a clip like say
we wanted to convert this into a drum
fill then you can just use the D key I'm
going to delete this part of it you can
delete any clip by selecting it and
hitting delete now you can use the
duplicate which I have programmed to the
D key like this and it basically copies
and pace in one keyboard action so then
that sounds like this or we can take
this one out that's kind of cool so
that's how you cut delete and duplicate
clips so we're gonna zoom in a little
bit more I'm gonna take a look at some
of the other tools that you have
available on the clip now we can fade in
right here this is the fade handle so
you can bring a fade in and a fade out
that you can adjust using those handles
down here in the properties you can
select the shapes for the fade in and
the fade out like here's a faster fade
in shape a faster fade out shape or an
s-shaped fade out shape you can bring
those in like this
you've got the hollow arrows that do the
overall trimming now at this level I'm
gonna need to turn snap off in order to
do that smoothly so I'll turn snap off
and I can use those tools like that but
now you notice that this is actually
falling a little behind the beat well I
can use the slip tool which is this
solid color any of the solid color tools
work like slip edit tools and what it
does is if you drag from there it
actually slips the wave form inside of
the window of the clip so I'll turn snap
off and you can see I can adjust then
the wave form itself so this really is
great for this kind of editing so I can
get that beat coming right on the
downbeat like that and then I can adjust
the end of it like this so that gives
you a lot of ability to do detailed
editing with this so that's lip editing
there's also slip editing tools here
this will slip the wave form back but
keep the length of it the same or keep
the back end of it planted like this so
you can actually move the transient part
but keep the back end length of the clip
the same this does kind of the opposite
pushes the whole waveform back while it
shrinks up the size of the wave like
that those are useful I probably use
these solid color arrows less than any
of the other tools so just to kind of
summarize you use this to move the
entire clip you use this for trimming
the front edge use this for trimming the
back edge of the clip and then you use
this for slip editing now this one here
will actually move the window of the
clip around the waveform kind of like
this another useful and interesting tool
you have to work with so I'm gonna zoom
out a little bit just use the up arrow a
few times to get zoomed out that's
really kind of truncated there I'm going
to go and lengthen that out a little bit
I also might want to use this particular
beat instead so we can go here put in a
split just drag the cursor here put in a
split and then I can copy using command
C that would be ctrl C on a PC that
copies it to the clipboard and then I
can go out to any area where I might
want to use that put the cursor in and
paste it that's control V or command V
and then I could also reuse that again
for these other beats maybe shorten it
up a little bit
hit D to duplicate it and let's listen
to it now that you can see this is
coming early to give kind of a heavy
feel but if we want to actually go in
here and start to adjust the feel of
this beat then can just slip that back a
little bit
now one other cool thing you can do is
actually adjust the gain of these
individual hits so once you've done it
edit like this you might want these not
all to be the same strength so you can
adjust the volume quite easily by
clicking on it and going down here to
the clip gain property down here in the
properties so you can see they're all
set to zero if I grab this slider and
just back it off a little bit or you
might want to make this one here quite a
bit weaker and that this one here wound
up too wimpy you could also click right
on here and I could just do it zero to
bring that back up alright so then when
you've got something that you like you
can select all of these clips so one way
to do that is on the track itself you
can right click on the track and do
select all clips on this track like that
or I'll hit escape to change that or you
could do a multiple selection by
clicking the first one holding down
shift and clicking on the last one and
then once you've done that you've got a
render Clips option down here the one
that I use the most under here is the
one called render selected clips and
replace them that will render them all
into one solid selection like this now
it goes through this intermediate dialog
box and normally all you have to do is
just hit render here and it will do it
know we've got one solid clip
now we've got our beat that we've
created
if we hit D we can duplicate it or we
could even loop it if we wanted to if I
selected multiples of these and hit a
two set the loop over it I can listen to
my creation let me undo that now another
cool thing we can do is reverse a clip
so we can reverse the audio within a
clip we'll try reversing this very last
one so you'll see a property right here
it's called reverse you can turn that on
or off as soon as you turn it on you see
that it reverses up here now another
thing you might want to do is a
crossfade so I'm going to zoom in and
make a couple of Clips overlap so we'll
make this one here we'll stretch that
back to where it's overlapping this
other clip and then we can simply
crossfade these to eliminate glitching
by just clicking right here where it
says apply crossfade you can see it puts
a crossfade a nice crossfade right in
there
now another way to do that is to take an
overlapping clip let me adjust this a
little bit more and now that it's
overlapping and then just hit X and it
will also put in a crossfade now we can
also do drag crossfades if we have that
turned on so I'm going to turn drag
crossfade on right down here and for
this clip you'll see that if I drag it
over the other clip it will
automatically create a crossfade and
there's a setting for that as you build
your tracks and create clips you can
have the drag cross fade on by default
for all new clips and then that makes
that very easy if you want to do that
overlap and crossfade right away but if
you don't have that on that all you need
to do is drag across and hit X and it
will create a crossfade Oertel adjust
new crossfade so that's kind of a
whirlwind tour of using the editing
tools within individual audio clips and
traction it's a lot of fun powerful
tools thanks for watching and I'll see
you in the next video