editing song length

[blueskyflyer2001]

I recorded my band's live sets whole as songs with the micro br and I'm trying to seperate the tunes in the set and compile excerpts for promotional purposes. I find no way to copy said excepts to a new song or shorten the full length track of songs to one separate song. What am I missing in this procedure?

[tkofaith]

What am I missing in this procedure?

The manual...see pages 53 and following (Section 2).  All you need to know is there.

Otherwise, it would probably be easier to do what you want to do by exporting the entire recording to a .wav file and doing the editing in Audacity (Free!) or some other music editing software.

Good luck

[hewhoiscalledj]

I do the same thing at each band practice; I record the whole session in one take so as not to slow down the creative process.

Anyway, here's what I do after... With a pen and paper, listed thru your recordings and mark down the times that each song you want starts and stops. At this point, you can just export each song one at a time to mp3 or wave. Myself, I like to cut and paste each song into their own Vtrack. Since there is 8 Vtracks per track, and the first Vtrack has the whole session, that leaves 7 free Vtracks on Track 1, and 8 each on the rest (unless you recorded in stereo to two tracks which cuts available Vtracks in half; does that make sense?)

Just hit UTILITY, then select either copy or export. If export, it will convert your clips (1 at a time) into your choice of mp3 or wave so they will be accessible in mp3 mode or on the mp3 folder. This is the easiest and quickest method, but doesnt allow for tweaking effects or mastering.

Thats why i like my copy and paste method. Once i have each song cut and isolated to their own Vtracks, I go into Mastering mode and do my thing to each song (adding compression, EQing, tweaking the panning and adding reverb, etc...)

works like a charm. it takes a while to get the hang of the process but it doesnt take long.