Hey guys, in this video, we’re going to cover how to record and edit audio in Tracktion
7.
We’ll cover the audio track setup, recording from our audio interface, and how to make
some basic edits like moving around and trimming the tracks.
Before starting this tutorial, make sure you’ve checked out the previous videos in this series.
The first thing we need to cover is how to add and remove tracks in Tracktion so that
we can have enough for all the inputs we need, without extras cluttering up the project.
To add a track, right click on the track area below our tracks and select Create a New Track.
We can also add a new track from the bottom menus by selecting Create a new Track under
tracks.
If we need to get rid of an extra track, right click on it and select Delete the selected
track.
By right clicking, we can also expand the tracks to make them bigger for easier editing,
or shrink them down so we can fit more on our screen.
We can also double click a track to expand it.
With our track selected after clicking on it, we get a few more options on the bottom
panel.
If we double click on the track name, we can rename it so we know what’s on the individual
tracks.
The next thing we need to do is setup an input for our track.
To do that, click the rectangle underneath the track name in the tracks section.
When you click this, it gives us a drop down with the input listing.
Then we can select our input.
In this case it gives us a mono input.
Once the input is selected, we get the input controls in the bottom section of the window.
We can enable stereo recording here, live input monitoring, and make adjustments to
the Input Gain and audio recording quality.
When we enable Treat as Stereo Channel Pair, we’ll lose the input and have to reselect
it, but the inputs are now available in stereo pairs again.
To go back to mono, just undo this.
If you plan on recording multiple instruments or using MIDI, I recommend recording all your
instruments with a click track.
To do this, select the Click Track menu in the bottom left corner.
Select the Turn On Click Track button.
I also recommend selecting a count in time for 1 or 2 bars so you can start right on
time.
Here we can also adjust the volume.
The click track will play during both playback and recording, but we can select the button
to play it only during recording, and this can make it easier to hear if our instruments
are in time with each other.
I also usually set my click track to emphasize the first beat of every bar.
Once all that’s setup, press the red circle on each track to arm it for recording.
Only armed tracks will record, and all the others will play back normally.
Then press the red record button on the transport to start recording.
To make things easier, you can also start and stop recording by pressing the R key on
the keyboard.
After we’re done recording we can make some edits to the clip.
Dragging the top part of the clip around will move it on the timeline.
We can also do this with or without snapping by enabling and disabling it in the bottom
right corner.
The empty square will allow us to drag the clip boundaries around on the timeline, but
the audio track in relation to the timeline remains the same.
With the track in the right place, we can trim the ends to remove extra noise.
The empty triangle keeps the audio in the same place and trims the end of the clip.
This is what we use when we started recording a clip early and stopped late, and want to
get rid of the excess.
If we use the filled in circle, it moves the edge of the clip, but pushes all the audio
with it.
The last thing we’ll cover in this video is how to apply a fade to a clip.
To apply a fade, click and drag the square with the diagonal line towards the center
of the clip.
Then in the bottom section with the clip settings, we can choose the fade shape, or fine tune
the timing by manually entering it.
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