[audacity4blind] Re: USB Turntable
- From: "David R. Sky" <davidsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Ron,
Before I go into the instructions below, practice first on a "dummy" piece
of audio you've loaded into Audacity, to get comfortable with the steps.
Also, you can install two different versions of Audacity into two
different folders. I have four versions of Audacity installed: 1.2.4,
1.2.6, 1.3.3 beta and a developer-testing 1.3.4 beta:
c:\program files\audacity124 through c:\program files\audacity134.
I mainly write a certain type of plug-in for Audacity, which is the reason
for my sometimes unsure way of doing things. Anyways, here goes...
To find out what version you are using, open help menu alt+h, then click
on "About Audacity". your screen reader should read what version it is -
possibly 1.2.4 or 1.2.6, which are two stable releases of Audacity.
These versions of Audacity are much less screen reader friendly than the
1.3.3 beta. What I would suggest is use the version of Audacity which
comes with the turntable to record and then save your lp's, then use the
1.3.3 beta to do your editing.
The following works in both stable and beta versions of Audacity:
home and end keys go to the start and end of your track, respectively.
When you push home, then press your right arrow key a number of times (or
hold it down for a few seconds), then press shift+end or shift+home, then
press your space bar, you'll hear your track played from the cursor
position to the end of the track, or start of the track to your cursor
position, respectively.
I'm somewhat rusty here and in somewhat of a rush, so someone else can
correct me if I'm wrong.
After you've made your above selection, the control key can be used to
contract your selection: control+left arrow contracts your selection by
moving the final point of your selection to the left, control+right arrow
contracts your selection by moving the start of your selection to the
right.
The correct keyboard commands might be control+shift+left or right arrow.
Once you've selected the scratch you referred to in a previous post, press
the backspace key to delete the scratch (which would cut that section of
audio from the track, which would shorten it. Or if you simply just want
to silence that spot, I think there's Silence under the edit menu (do not
use Silence under the generate menu, which would simply generate a
duration of silence).
Okay, now about 1.3.3 beta. You'll notice your screen reader behaves
rather differently - once you've loaded your audio into it you'll hear the
name of your file and "select on". Here's where you can use the left and
right brackets to select your audio, and there are two ways to do this:
1. Start playing your file using the space bar. About a fraction of a
second before your unwanted scratch is heard, press the left bracket key,
JAWS will probably read something momentarily. Just after you hear the end
of the scratch, press the right bracket key. When you stop playback then
start it again with the space bar, you'll hear your selected audio.
2. The other way to select audio is when you don't have anything playing:
you simply press the left bracket key, a menu comes up into which you can
enter the start time of your selection, and okay that. Then press the
right bracket and enter the finishing time of your selection and okay it.
Cheers
David
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, tiscali wrote:
Hi Dave.
Im not sure what version of Audacity I have, it was the 1 that came with the
turntable.
Sorry can't be more specific.
Ron
----- Original Message ----- From: "David R. Sky" <davidsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:41 PM
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: USB Turntable
Hi Ron,
Do you know what version of Audacity you are using?
You generally need to select at least some portion of audio before you
apply an effect such as amplify. control+a selects all the audio you have
loaded.
In the soon-to-be-released 1.3.4, you don't need to select any audio
before you apply an effect.
Anything else just shout.
David
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, tiscali wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised me on getting Jaws to work with the above.
>
> In Sounds and Audio Devices in Control pannel, I unchecked the box "use
> only default devices".
>
> My question now is where I can learn about editing.
>
> When in audacity a lot of things in the menu bar are announced as
> "unavailable".
>
> I can record and play, but can't do much else like volume etc.
>
> Any help gratefully received.
>
> Ron
>
>
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