The Important Editing Tasks of the DAW

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Introduction to music production. Alejo Rey

The important editing tasks of the DAW

Hello from Barcelona (Spain), I'm Alejo Rey and I took the

editing tasks for my second week. I'm learning a lot in thiscourse so I'm happy for it.

We recorded two regions of an electric guitar for example. We made two for

be sure that if in one was something wrong we have the another one to

correct.

The first thing we have to know is that all we edit is in the regions, not in theaudio file. In the regions we have non-destructive editing, in the audio files

no.

-Non Destructive editing means that you can go back to correct anything.

-Destructive editing means that you can't go back.

OK, Let's go back to the two regions before, the first thing we're going to do

is to listen what kind of errors can be on the regions, to correct them, thenwe can start our edit process.


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-Trimming: His function is to lengthen or shorten the region.You'll have to do

it in the beginning or the end of a region, to clean for any possible pops and

clicks.His form is like this:

-Separate and cutting: If there is something wrong in the first region, youll

cut it, eliminate it, then you're going to copy and paste the part good one of

the second region. For make this you need these tools.

-FADES:

Fade out: Get down audio signal progressively.If at the end of a region you

get like unexpected end, or some small noise, you can use this tool.

Sometimes when you cut a region feels like something weird, with this tool

you can hide it.


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Fade in:It's the same in reverse, in the beginning of a region you didn't very

well, so there is a little noise or something weird, and you can correct this

just making a fade in.

Crossfade:Its like two faders(fade in and fade out) connected side-by-side,but in opposite directions.

Crossfade Fade in Fade Out

-The grid:

Its a function that allows you to find the exact point to put the region. If you

want to start in the first beat of your counter, you'll have to move it; with the

grid function you'll find the exact point with your counter. It's an interesting

tool if your performance not was good enough in relation with the counter,

so this function allows you to correct it.


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-Zooming:

Makes bigger or smaller the region. That's a very good tool if you have to

correct some small error, you'll want to see it well, so youll have to make the

region bigger.The larger the region is made small mistakes can be corrected,even those that are not noticeable.Make smaller the regions can be very

helpful if you have many tracks and want to organize them.

Usually is represent it with magnifying glass.

+ Bigger - Smaller.

-Cycling:

This function repeats over and over the region that has been selected. This is

a good tool to don't have to push play or Stop all the times you want to edit

some specific part of the region.Also it's helpful when you're recording some

part over another one, then it plays automatically and you don't have to be

stopping every time.

An example would be when you are editing the region and you're listening

something very low,but is something annoys you, almost imperceptible, you

don't know where it is, we're talking about one very small part, you make

bigger the region by zooming but even you can't see it, so you need to repeat

over and over to find where exactly is. That's helpful if its automatically.


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-Merging:

This is use to group the regions that you edited before, and then make a new

one. Careful, because that's a destructive editing, ones you get the new

region you can't go back. So make sure your region it's just perfect until you

merge the new one.

You'll find this function on edit window, some DAWS use consolidate as

reference word.

-Naming and coloring:

Name each region and color them, this will be very helpful to organize your

stuff in your DAW.If you're looking one region from many, would be good to

find it.

-Markers:

Very good tool, they're so useful when you have a song and you don't know

where the parts are.Use markers and put them in the most important parts

of the song, like verse, bridge, chorus, solo guitar, then during the editing

process you'll find quickly and easy the parts you want.

-Comping:

This is used to create a final region with the best parts of the previous

regions.


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