Thanks a lot for that David. I shall try and put your very precise
instructions into practice in the next few days. Shall let you know how I
get on.
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bailes" <david_bai...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: New to audio production
Hi Martin,
here are some more detailed instructions for using Audacity to create the
example you wanted.
1. Open audacity.
2. On the track menu, open the add new sub menu, and choose Audio track
(ctrl+shift+n).
3. Open the Tone generator dialog from the Generate menu. In this dialog,
the duration control is like a spin box. By default, the format is seconds
which are grouped into two groups of three digits, and the default time is
thirty seconds. To change this to one second, press End to move to the last
digit, press left arrow to move to the digit 3, and then type in the digits
0 and 1. Note Jaws then reads out zero zero zero, but that's because the
focus has wrapped around to the first group of three digits.
4. The generated tone is selected, so to deselect this and move the cursor
to the end of this selection, press right arrow.
5. Open the silence generator dialog from the Generator dialog. Although the
default duration is read out as zero, this is a bug, and in fact it's 30
again. So to change it to one, press end to move to the last digit, and
follow the insructions in step 3.
6. The silence is selected. Select all the audio by pressing ctrl + A, and
then choose duplicate from the edit menu. so that you now have two identical
tracks. You can move the focus between the tracks by pressing up arrow and
down arrow.
7. Both tracks are selected, and a time range covering all the audio is
selected. To deslect track 1, move to the first track and press enter, which
toggles the selection of a track. So with track two selected, choose the
Reverse effect from the Effects menu. Track two now contains silence
followed by the tone, rather than the other way round in track one.
8. Set the pan control of track one to fully right, and the pan control of
track two to fully left. To change the pan of the focussed track, press
shift+P which opens a pan dialog. Type in 1 for pan to right, and minus 1
for pan to left.
9. Select all the audio by pressing ctrl+a, and then open the repeat dialog
from the effects menu. specify how many repeats of the selected audio you
want.
10. Press home to move the cursor to the start, and then spacebar to
play/stop.
The Jaws guide I mentioned has more details:
http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.8-Guide.html
David.
original message:
I am a complete new comer to the world of audio editing. I would like to
make
an audio file consisting of two channels. That is to say, different
information
being presented to each ear piece simultaneously. Would this be possible
using
a programme such as Sound Forge. I have a demo copy of version 9, but it all
seems rather daunting to me.
Any suggestions would be very helpful.
Martin
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