On 09/10/2011, at 7:11 AM, Scott Fraser wrote:
> Is Blending turned on? That's the left-most button in the group of
> buttons just above the right side of the waveform display. Caps-
> Lock toggles it on & off.
Oh! The simplest solution is always the best one!
Yes Scott, I now have Blending turned ON and it works perfectly!
Foolproof settings for me seemed to be linear blend and 30 ms, for no
clicks even with random and mismatched selections.
Thanks!
Vicki
> Vicki:
>
> <<I don't have the latest version of Peak LE, maybe later versions are
> click-free, (mine is 5.2).>>
>
> I use Peak Pro 6 for CD mastering, but not for editing, so I don't
> have much familiarity with the Peak edit procedure.
>
> <<My editing needs are relatively simple and I don't have much need
> for
> cutting out pieces of audio in the middle of a sequence. But I
> thought it would be good to try out the 'how tos'.
> If I do chop out a piece it will always be in a quiet part of a track
> and then I usually don't have click problems. But if I try it on
> something loud then a click seems inevitable.>>
>
> Is Blending turned on? That's the left-most button in the group of
> buttons just above the right side of the waveform display. Caps-
> Lock toggles it on & off.
>
> <<A procedural problem? well my method is simply to select the bit of
> audio I don't want and click the delete button.>>
>
> With Blending on it will provide a crossfade whose properties are
> predetermined in the Blending page of the Preferences. Personally,
> the Peak edit paradigm is highly counterintuitive to me, since I
> absolutely need manual control over crossfade length, so
> predetermined lengths don't work for me. I think it defaults to 100
> ms in Peak. If that proves too discontinuous you could try a longer
> fade, although sometimes the shortest possible fade works best. In
> any case the audio on either side of the cut needs to match in
> general texture & volume. If not, it CAN be made to work with some
> trial & error on the length and/or the shape of the crossfade as
> well as as the overlap of the adjacent segments.
>
> <<Motu Digital Performer for Mac looks interesting but is probably
> more
> complex than I need. RX is great for any noise treatments though!>>
>
> Digital Performer is, in my opinion, a superior editor in every
> regard, but I really think it is overkill if music production is
> not ones main focus.
> RX has become an indispensible tool, in daily use for me.
>
> Scott Fraser
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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