[ddots-l] Re: scrubbing question

  • From: "Brian Howerton" <bshowerton1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:17:55 -0400

Thank you Mike.  This vocalist is very breathy.  Do you know of any noise gates 
that  would do the trick for this?  She is so breathy that this will be very 
time consuming doing it this way, and if I use a noise gate, is this inserted 
just like a regular affect is?  Thanks,
Brian
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Tyo 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:29 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: scrubbing question


  Your welcome, sir.

  As far as scrubbing in the clips pane, you can read extensively in the 
CakeTalking tutorial about how to work in the clips pane, which I would highly 
recommend. If you've done any editing there, you'll be familiar with some of 
the keystrokes. I'll get you started in a nutshell, but you'll want to read up 
on it at some point when you have a chance. I can't remember off the top of my 
head which lessons deal with it, but there are several that start you from 
scratch and take you right through working with the VVocal editor.

  Anyway, get to a position in your track that you want to edit. Then, to get 
to the clips pane from the track pane, hit ctrl+Down Arrow. Once you're there, 
CakeTalking will tell you that, of course. Then hit f-6, which will put the 
scrub cursor at your current position. CakeTalking will give you some options 
that you can do from that point. You'll probably want to zoom in quite a bit 
before you start actually scrubbing so that you can zero in on the data you 
want to delete; you do this by hitting numpad-2 until you've zoomed in to where 
you want it. CakeTalking will tell you how much data's displayed each time you 
hit numpad-2. Lock the mouse with JAWS-Key+Star on your numpad and use 
Numpad+1, 4, or 7 to scrub backward, or numpad+3, 6, or 9 to scrub forward. The 
lower keys will scrub in smaller units, while the higher keys will scrub in 
larger units. Set your from and through times, or set markers at the beginning 
and end of the area that you want to delete, then do your usual method of 
selecting the track according to from and through times, or use Alt-F11, which 
will select between markers. It'll be easier to where headphones so you can 
hear things more clearly, especially when you're trying to delete breaths, etc. 
Remember that you have to scrub to just a bit before the area that you want to 
deal with starts, then unlock the mouse with JAWS-Key+Star on your numpad 
before you set your from time or marker; then do likewise at the end of the 
area that you're working with. This can become a bit time-consuming, but it's 
all in what you're wanting to accomplish.

  You might also approach it from another angle by patching a noise gate into 
the track and use a preset that's already there that might suppress the breaths 
but maintain the vocal so that it doesn't sound like it's being chopped up. If 
you have a lot of breaths throughout the recording that are offensive, this 
might be a somewhat quicker way of dealing with it. By the way, if you're 
scrubbing and you  find that you need to zoom out, hit numpad-8. Make sure your 
mouse is unlocked before you do this. You'll also want to reposition the scrub 
cursor before you start scrubbing again.

  Hope this helps; but again, you're going to want to read in more detail in 
the CakeTalking tutorial.



  Mike



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Brian Howerton 
    To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 19:20
    Subject: [ddots-l] Re: scrubbing question


    Thank you Mike.  How would I scrub in the clips pane then?  I'm trying to 
delete breaths from a vocal track and it's pretty challenging.

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