How to edit an audio clip

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:41 am

BRING BACK THE EDIT BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

still have to use an external editor to use it but still,

BRING BACK THE EDIT BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it was better where it used to be i agree, but it's now in the file management stuff. go to the file manager and view the samples in the set and each of them has a little edit button next to it.

itook4lefts · Post by **itook4lefts** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:25 am

BeatFeet wrote:I deleted half a track. Consolidated. Closed the set. Saved the changes. The size of the set (Get Info on the Mac) got bigger.

when you close the set, do you get a dialogue asking whether you want to discard used clip? you should, and you should click "yes" - this will trash any samples that are not part of the set anymore. if you don't get this dialogue, then it's probably because the original guitar take is still sitting in a slot in the session view.

so you have your original take. drag it to the arrangement, select the part you want, consolidate it (apple-j), delete the original take from the arrangement and the session, save and close.

milesahead · Post by **milesahead** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:15 pm

first; the very first try wasn`t too bad:
if you record one minute of guitar input,select the part you like (just by clicking and draging into the record from the beginning of the wanted part to the end) - it will become colored different,
- and then you grab it at the upper handle
- hold with the mouse - and while holding you change to session-view
- and then let go the mouse over a empty clip.
should do exactly what you want. the clip only holds the selected part of the whole file.
then, back in arrange-view, delete the whole recording.
i think i did this before, it worked, so try it out,
otherwise i must be terribly wrong.
second;
if you choose your audio-editor in preferences, you don`t have to leave live.
you can work with it like a plugin.
that way your editing will still be saved with the whole set.

other way:
i sometimes make several recordings, and mess around with them.
if i am left with just 2 or 3 usable files, i just save as a copy, then go into the folder (described above) - see whats of interest, copy those i want to keep and delete the whole rest, saves time and space.

hope this gives some ideas

Synthbuilder · Post by **Synthbuilder** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:45 pm

itook4lefts wrote:
when you close the set, do you get a dialogue asking whether you want to discard used clip?

Not in Live 6 you don't. You need to go into this new fangled File Manager, run a search and go into the un-used folder and delete them from there.

Live 5 was simpler in this respect.

It also had the edit button...

xxxmorphicxxx · Post by **xxxmorphicxxx** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:09 am

Ok... Using Live 6.

I open a NEW set. Hit record and made a junk audio clip. Then I close Live, and a dialog pops up. First is, "Do you want to save changes?" Next is

"Would you like to delete the temporary samples in (directory)?"

Clicking yes deletes the junk file I just recorded, and Live closes.

To complete the testing, I opened an EXISTING set. Recorded a junk audio clip... closed the set.... and...

Much to my surprise it didn't ask me if I wanted to delete it.

Now you have to open the set you want to clean up. Go to File -> Manage Files. Click Manage Project. Click the triangle next to Unused samples, and I think you can figure out the rest from there.

Sorry I was giving you wrong advice, it worked the way I was saying for every version before 6. Not really sure why they changed it.