Viewing Audio

[brandon]

I inserted a number of snare drum samples into a project in a single track and then 'combined' them all to make what i thought would be a single take.

It plays fine. But when i go to view it there is only 16 samples showing in the audio view when there are actually 120 samples being played. I need to get int the audio to edit it but am struggling.

Any ideas why this might be?

[John Vere]

A screen shot might help. Did you zoom in on the track? 

[brandon]

13 hours ago, John Vere said:

A screen shot might help. Did you zoom in on the track? 

 

Ok here is the cowbell at track 13. Lots of little samples.

 

Double click on the track and this is all I get

 

[John Vere]

I've never seen that window before? Is it a clip audio editor?

This must be a new feature, when I double click audio clips it only highlights, This is my office computer so my version is outdated, I'll update and check back and see what I get. 

 

[John Vere]

OK it took some poking around but I see that what you have opened is a Loop Construction View.

 I have never seen it before I guess because I don't use loops.

Thanks for posting this question, I just learned another cool feature I have never used and I can see a few things I can do with this to improve my workflow. 

Your just not opening the view properly. 

I won't open by double clicking-- I have to highlight the audio track,  right click and choose view , Loop construction-  or easier yet  Alt 7 

All the audio tracks I opened including I dragged a "loop" from the browser  just to test,  all open normally and I can view the audio wave form. 

 Looking at your screenshot you don't seem to have any tracks highlighted. And the other clue is there should be a tab in the lower left with the loops info. 

 

 

Edited August 12, 2020 by John Vere

[brandon]

Thank John. I think you hit the nail on the head. The track is essentially a number of cow bell samples. What I havent done is combine them into one audio track and thats why it is only bringing up one audio sample in audio view. Still odd though and not what I would expect. 

[John Vere]

We were typing at same timer,, I edited my post above to add a screenshot

 

[brandon]

I tried opening the clip as 'loop construction' but it still only opens one sample rather than the whole audio file as your has above. I tried alt 7 too. 

To be honest I havent created a loop (at least not to my knowledge). All I have done is insert a number of instances of the same sample (one at a time). Maybe I should have inserted them another way?

[Jonathan Sasor]

The Loop Construction View is not a Wave Editor as such. It's only going to show the selected clip when opening. If you want everything to be part of the same clip, you have to select all of the audio in that track and go Clips | Bounce to Clips. 

The real question is what exactly is the edit you're looking to do? That's going to dictate what's ultimately the best way to go about it. The Loop Construction View is geared towards tweaking a couple bars of something and then acidizing it where you can crop the clip for a number of repeats that are tied to the project tempo. 

[John Vere]

Ya Cakewalk has never had a real audio editor built in. I found that a bit weird at first but then once I learned to tool copy audio into Wave Lab ( or any editor) all was good.