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Need a music editor with a special non-destructive edit feature.

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Infraviolet:
For non-destructive editing what would be wrong with making a copy of the file, just copying it as a file in your folder explorer, and editing the copy?

I know you mention Audacity wouldn't do as it didn't give you proper decibel settings, but might there be a plugin for it to do that? I understand there are plugins developed for it independently of its main development efort, things which might need some searching on github or other open-source project websites to find.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on October 03, 2023, 10:48:07 pm ---For non-destructive editing what would be wrong with making a copy of the file, just copying it as a file in your folder explorer, and editing the copy?

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Ok, after I have done my work and listened  2 days later, what if I need to go back a slightly align edits #5, #10, #20 through 25 and leave the other 50 edits the same.  How do I do that if the editor doesn't employ a non-destructive indexed save file with my edits containing a project which uses the original source files + all the edits displayed onscreen which any one can be modified & a new rendered music file can be generated.

Reaper handles this very well.  Audacity and Audition do handle this for a multitrack setup with envelopes, but not for many of the effects and the speed at which I need to do my edits.  Reaper leaves me with 1 tiny project file plus my original samples leaving it at the top.  I'm getting used to the user interface and will most likely pay the 60$ for it as it does support my work.

Infraviolet:
I get your reasoning there, wanting to save the editing process because it can be quite complex for your use case. Somehow I'd thought this was a situation where you were applying the same procedure to a bunch of files, the way one might run an automatic gain changing program on a folder full of files, except that you wanted to do it only for certain timestamped regions, so I'd wrongly guessed the editing method wouldn't need saving as it would always be the same.

Good you got a solution to work in the end.

John B:
Sounds like you might be looking for the "Split item at cursor" function, by pressing "S". Volume can easily be set in the item properties, but I also got the impression you wanted to morph EQ over time, hence the use of envelopes. If you're doing simple things like volume, there's many ways to achieve that, but as things get more complex, you want to plan the signal flow and work flow.

BrianHG:
 :( Awww, all the new music editor's spectrum/graphic EQ auto limit level/duck when I over kill the +db, especially on the low frequencies.  Still need to go to older Audacity 2.1 or Cooledit 2K Pro to get that sweet heavy hitting of the sample limits.  I wish they had a switch to disable the feature and use a soft rounded clipping mechanism like that in old analog EQs instead.

 :phew:  Kept a copy of the older Audacity as the new version's EQ also auto-level pukes over the audio levels with every bass drum strike.

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