[ddots-l] Sonar: Working wiht Audio Tracks of Different Lengths

  • From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:07:19 -0700

Always wondered if this was possible. Here's what I'm doing...

I record an entire cassette tape to Sonar as a single audio track, so it's 
about 60 minutes in length.

Now I insert several audio tracks to the project. On each track I  paste a copy 
of one song from the main track, aligned to bar 1 beat 1.

After I've done all this I delete the original 60-minute track.

What I end up with is about a dozen tracks, each with one audio clip, all 
aligned at bar1 beat one. And of course they are all different lengths.

If I select any of these tracks from beginning to ennd I will always be 
selecting from bar 1 beat 1 to the end of the longest track. So if I export it 
to a wave file I'll have various lenghts of blank audio at the ends of these 
songs.

This does not work well when I try to burn a CD, as all the blank audio is 
copied.

So the questions are:

1. If I select all the tracks from beginning to end with Ctrl-Enter-Enter and 
export to wave files how do I not get that varying lenght of blank audio in the 
wave files?

2. Or more simply how do I select any individual track from the beginning to 
the actual end of sound?

Dave
  

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