This, and the method for selecting all audio are enough for using selections in Audacity. Therefore, any operation you perform will now only affect the selected area of the first two tracks. For example, to create the selection in the image below, make sure you are using Selection Tool, click in the track just after 7.0 seconds in the first track, then drag rightwards to 20.5 seconds as displayed on the Timeline, then downwards so that the gray selection region now includes the second track:īecause the drag started in the second track (as indicated by the yellow focus border) and extended up into the first track, only those two tracks are selected, as indicated by the blue color of the Track Control Panel. Normally, you select both the tracks and the range simultaneously, by clicking and dragging. Now click the left mouse button anywhere inside of an audio track, and click and drag to the other edge of your selection, and release. If it is not already selected, choose the Selection tool from Tools Toolbar, below: The easiest way to select a region of audio is to click the left mouse button anywhere inside of an audio track, then drag (in either direction) until the other edge of your selection is made, then release the mouse. Label Tracks - a useful way to recall particular selections.Extending or contracting an existing selection.Selection Toolbar - mouse and keyboard users can use this to make precise selections without zooming in.Selecting using the keyboard - useful for visually- and motion-impaired users.Boundary Snap Guides - facilitates making a selection that starts or ends at a physical boundary.Snap-To - to force-snap the cursor or selection edges to the closest or previous position of the current selection format.Selecting regions using the mouse - quick and easy.Selecting the whole of an individual track.Rather than change each track the same way, you could instead select all or part of an individual track, and then change each track in a different way. You have advanced flexibility to select only some of multiple tracks then to select the entirety of those tracks or only a range within them. An exact range accurate to various selection formats (time units, samples or media frames) can be selected using Selection Toolbar. You can read here about selecting using only the keyboard. To use Audacity selections, Selecting Audio - the_basics is enough. This page is the long version explaining selection. mouse-selecting only a range of audio in one or more tracks, then modifying the selection's sound with an effect or deleting or moving the range of audio.selecting or auto-selecting the entire project, or.

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