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Published in SOS February 2012

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Pro Tools lets you edit audio from the keyboard, without even touching the mouse. Here’s how.
Mike Thornton
There are many advantages to working with the QWERTY keyboard rather than the mouse where possible. For a start, it’s faster, and intensive use is less likely to give you repetitive strain injury. Pro Tools goes further than most DAWs in letting you work almost entirely from the keyboard. Last month, we explored mouse-free ways of navigating and zooming your sessions. This month, we’ll look at how to perform common editing tasks. (Unless stated otherwise, assume that you need to have Keyboard Command Focus engaged.)
The first of these common editing functions was touched on last month: Trim Clip Start. As we saw in my previous column, if you have Tab to Transient active, you can then hit Tab to position the cursor at the next transient — which, in most cases, is likely to be the start of the wanted audio within that clip. Now hit the ‘A’ key and the area from the clip start to the cursor is deleted. If you want to delete multiple areas of unwanted silence, Tab through to the end of the phrase, maybe using the nudge keys (plus and minus on the numeric keypad) to position the cursor more accurately. You can then use Shift-Tab to select from the cursor to the next transient and hit the Delete key to remove the selection. Next, move on to the end of the section, place the cursor after the end of the wanted audio and hit the ‘S’ key to trim the end from the cursor position to the clip end.
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Published in SOS February 2012

 

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