OK, so I did figure out how to edit. It turns out, here's what was happening.
I would split the region at the correct place. Basically, I was cloce, but there was one thing Apple and I didn't realize. So, here's the thing... If you split a track into more than one region, then you go to that region in your timeline, and simply hit the delete key to delete it, you're gonna then be presented with a really annoying problem. All that will do is take the audio within that region and delete it. Now, you're probably saying to yourself... isn't that what he wants to do to start with? Yeah, but, ok, hang? on though. Here's the problem with this method:
Apparently! if you do this, the region will get deleted and so will the audio from it, but! then what happens is you then have this nice gap where that region used to be.
Here, let me make this easier for you and explain. Let's just say for scinareo's sake, that we have a track which is say 20 bars in length. OK. We want to take out, say... bars 5 to 10.
OK, so we split our track into 3 regions. The first region is going to be from the beginning of bar 1 to the end of bar 4. OK, you following me? Then, the 2nd region is what we wanna get rid of. It will be from bars 5 to 9. We don't want to get rid of bar 10, we just want to bump 5, up to! bar 10. In other words, we're gonna start deleting at bar 5, and stop deleting at bar 10. So then the 3rd region is the rest of the track: bars 10 to bar 20. OK, now, if we go to the 2nd region, and we delete that from bar 5 to 9, what's going to happenh is, now, you're gonna see that you'll have bars 1 to 4 will play, then as soon as bar 5 starts, up until bar 10, you're gonna have a long gap. So basically you'll have about 4 measures of silence.
That's because you deleted the region and the audio within it, but you didn't delete the space where that region was. So what you have to do, is when you delete the region, instead of hitting just the delete key, you have to hit ctrl+delete. This deletes and moves. In other words, that will delete the region, but then everything after that region will then be slid back and snapped back to the grid to fill in that empty space. That's why when I deleted that voice track, I still after deleting the silence that I accidentally got at the beginning, I was still hearing silence as yeah, I deleted the extra silence, but now there was a gap of silence where the silence used to be, so essentially, what I did was completely defeating the purpose and ineffective. Had I delete and moved! it would a worked.
Hope that helps explain.Chris.
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