Resizing Audio Regions

[DiScO]

Dear all,

 

Question if you don't mind. I have several audio regions that I have strip silenced and Logic has resized the start and end points to my edit just fine, but now they don't start, say, at bar 1 and end at bar 1 anymore graphically. How can I resize the region graphically to a full bar again, making dragging and duplicating easier? The problem with doing this after the edit is that of course anything you strip silenced is reintroduced. I have been through the manual today and have failed to find a suitable function. I may have skipped over it though. Any help much appreciated

[pantomimeHorse]

If you have audio which is to start right on the bar line, nudge it around until it sounds just fine (selecting "ticks" as the snap sensitivity of the tools), then use the extend/shrink tool to set the region's boundaries on to the bar lines (using "Bar" as the snap sensitivity of the tool).

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If you end up cutting off the attack of the audio, extend the region back to the previous bar line.

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Alternatively, make sure the anchor point of the region (in the audio editor) is set to where you want audio to fall on the bar line, and Logic will snap your copied/moved regions to fit the anchor to the bar.

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C

[davidpye]

If you're having trouble simply moving a region so that it's EXACTLY on bar 1 beat 1, then set your snap setting to "Snap to Absolute". That way all the regions anchors will just stick to the bar/beat division lines.

[DiScO]

Hi all,

 

And thanks for the replies. I'm sorry, I don't think I explained myself clearly enough. Let's say after recording a 4 bar vocal take that I'm happy with the timing etc except the mic has slightly picked up the metronome click at the beginning and end. If I use the function strip silence, Logic will remove the problem sections of the region where I want perfectly, however the region in the arrange has now lost the start and end graphically, making copying and moving it to be on time a pain(for example using the loop tool). I suppose I'm trying to compare it to a MIDI track whereby you can just resize the region to fit the 4 bars(if you stopped recording before reaching the end), but without reintroducing the audio you have purposely stripped. I think I'm a bit tongue tied today! The only way I have found to be able to retain the region as a 4 bar graphical block is to use the silence function in the sample editor. This retains the size of the region but removes the unwanted audio. Make what of that you can! Maybe I'll try again tomorrow!!!!! Cheers.

[dbassfour]

Good question.

 

Why not just select the portion you want to silence, then just draw in the silence, or even use the Tool, I think its under audio. Quick and dirty but it works, and you keep your orignal positions.

 

Ill get you a screen shot if you want once im back in the studio.

 

best

 

dion

[davidpye]

Or you could record in a VERY short section of silence, then everytime you do this, you could put the silent region on the bar 1 beat 1, and glue it to the rest of the regions. You will end up with one contiguous region, with the silence in the places you wanted it.

[litesnsirens]

I know it looks neat and tidy to do it the way you are wanting to ... but is it really necessary ??? are the anchors that are applied to your strip silenced regions failing to line things up the way you want... I have had no problems selecting a group of strip silenced regions and copy and pasting or more to the point option dragging them to new locations in the song and having them match up prefectly ... just take a mental note as to where the first visual audio region is in relation to the beat. So if it is at 10.2.4, instead of dragging from 10.1.1 to 26.1.1 for example just drag to 26.2.4... In the long run it will probably be faster and more efficient than the time you will spend trying to make all your regions look nicer... Don't get me wrong ... I like to work the way you are talking as well and it was easy to accomplish that in Cubase but it doesn't seem like Logic will let me draw blank audio regions and then merge them to the existing audio to make nice neat bar to bar regions, so I gave up and just learned to do it this way....

[davidpye]

I feel the same way, I find the way Logic y default works on a Relative grid to be really helpful and it's normally enough to make sure things don't go wandering around. Also when moving big sections I like to zoom out quite a long way, so when using smart snap I'm less likely to move things out of time.

[fader8]

I think what you want to do is not use Strip Silence. Select your region and open the sample editor. Select the range and silence that portion there. This keeps your region intact and the anchor doesn't reposition itself.

[ChicoSatis]

I think what you want to do is not use Strip Silence. Select your region and open the sample editor. Select the range and silence that portion there. This keeps your region intact and the anchor doesn't reposition itself.

 

That works AWESOME! Thanks for that bit of info. I completely overlooked that function.

 

 

Have a good one