sadicus Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 How to select 40 audio clips (from desktop) and have them line up in 1 audio track with out dragging one at a time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Do this: Create your audio track Open up the take lanes (this will create one take lane) Drag all of the files to the take lane This will put each clip in a separate lane within the same track. To make it a single clip: Select all the lanes Right click one of the clips, and select "Bounce to Clip(s)" You may want to adjust the overall clip gain level after doing this, and Bounce to Clip(s) again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadicus Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 This forum is the best! Thanks for taking the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) @scook there is also a feature called "Flatten Comp" which creates a new take lane composed of all the other (comped) takes and then solos it (in take lane, not track). the take shows an "unlock" icon which indicates the "clip data" is locked - it's not (apparently) a destructive operation as the takes are in one WAV file and the new one is in another WAV file. Edited January 19, 2021 by Glenn Stanton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 6 minutes ago, Glenn Stanton said: @scook there is also a feature called "Flatten Comp" which creates a new take lane composed of all the other (comped) takes and then solos it (in take lane, not track). the take shows an "unlock" icon which indicates the "clip data" is locked - it's not (apparently) a destructive operation as the takes are in one WAV file and the new one is in another WAV file. Thanks but why are you telling me about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 sorry - i though t to add it to your suggestion, and in case you didn't know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Glenn Stanton said: sorry - i though t to add it to your suggestion, and in case you didn't know about it. What suggestion? In this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 my apologies - i mixed up some responses you made in another thread with @msmcleod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Rantaaho Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 1/16/2021 at 6:58 PM, msmcleod said: Do this: Create your audio track Open up the take lanes (this will create one take lane) Drag all of the files to the take lane This will put each clip in a separate lane within the same track. To make it a single clip: Select all the lanes Right click one of the clips, and select "Bounce to Clip(s)" You may want to adjust the overall clip gain level after doing this, and Bounce to Clip(s) again. What defines the order / timeline position of these clips that are drag-dropped in one go? The order in which they've been selected? Unless they are Broadcast waves with a time stamp. Or do you have to move them oe by one after dragging? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 If you are dragging files its the order in which they appear in the selected file list. BTW if you drag multiple files into a lane it will auto insert in subsequent lanes and create new lanes as needed. I dont think there is a way to put the files back to back today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrplx Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 I believe I'm looking for the same thing I want to open a series of files, one after the other, in the same track to compile a series of poems for an audiobook. Is there a way to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 4 hours ago, andrplx said: I believe I'm looking for the same thing I want to open a series of files, one after the other, in the same track to compile a series of poems for an audiobook. Is there a way to do this? If you hold down CTRL + SHIFT while dragging the clips on to the track, they'll be put on the same track one after another. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrplx Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 thanks msmcleod precious help cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullpuppy Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 On 12/20/2021 at 10:25 PM, msmcleod said: If you hold down CTRL + SHIFT while dragging the clips on to the track, they'll be put on the same track one after another. I can't remember the last time I logged into a forum to post anything at all. It quite honestly may have been back in the the Star Wars Galaxies era. But I wanted to log in and say thank you for this response. I can't tell you how long it took me to figure out how to get snapping to work correctly just so I could speed up dragging in multiple files (hundreds of files) and getting them to line up without having to zoom in/out repeatedly. And now I can CTRL+SHIFT and drag it does it all for me! With just one sentence you have saved me countless hours of work my friend, so THANK YOU! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc Henrion Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Hi all. I'm new here but I'm not new to DAW's ?(just in case you might ask!). The CTRL-SHIFT answer is already a great step for what I want to achieve, but the WAV files I'm willing to import are BWF type: i.e. time-stamped. So, when I drag them on the track they positioned themselves at the right place. Creating silence between them as on the original DAW. Very nice, except that gaps between each file are just what I want to avoid ! Maybe there is a way to delete all gaps between clips but I didn't find a command to achieve this... Any help much appreciated. And congrats to the developers of this amazing piece of software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundlefly Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Hmmm... twice in one hour: Disable "Always Import Broadcast Waves at Their Timestamp" in Preferences > File > Audio Data before dragging them in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 10 hours ago, Luc Henrion said: ... So, when I drag them on the track they positioned themselves at the right place. Creating silence between them as on the original DAW. Very nice, except that gaps between each file are just what I want to avoid ! Maybe there is a way to delete all gaps between clips but I didn't find a command to achieve this... so which is it? the BW files are going where they're supposed and mimic the positions in the original DAW? __OR__ they're not going to the right place and there are unintended gaps between them somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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