Subject:Delete the first X bars of song?

Posted by: spinweb

Date:12/16/2004 9:00:00 PM

Hi... I know it's easy to INSERT time in ACID... but I haven't found an equivilent
way to delete, say, the first 8 bars of time in my ACID file.

Gotta be a way... there's just gotta.

Thanks,

Eric

Subject:RE: Delete the first X bars of song?

Reply by: MrSlate

Date:12/16/2004 9:11:30 PM

I have to do this all the time creating and editing Cheerleading Mixes... It drove me crazy also until I found the answer...

Here is how you do it..

Go to the Toolbar and select the "Time Selection Tool" and select the section of the song you wish to remove by dragging your cursor, then with the selection active, go to the Options Menu > Select "Ripple Edits" With the section you made still selected, hit "Delete" on your keyboard. This will shift everything to the left replacing the section you just removed.

Subject:RE: Delete the first X bars of song?

Reply by: spinweb

Date:12/17/2004 1:18:23 PM

Thanks! I tried it on one file and it worked like a charm. Then I tried it on another file and nothing happened.... over and over again. Any ideas why that might be?

Rick

Subject:RE: Delete the first X bars of song?

Reply by: MrSlate

Date:12/17/2004 2:03:42 PM

You have to make sure you do it in the order I specified. There seems to be an issue with Acid (Imagine that) that causes it not to work if you do it in any other order. Also make sure you sometimes turn RIPPLE EDITS on, then OFF agiain, sometimes that takes care ot it. Believe me, it happens to me from time to time.

Subject:RE: Delete the first X bars of song?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/17/2004 5:05:05 PM

Make sure you also double-click between the mark in and mark out points of the Loop Region.

Iacobus
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Subject:RE: Delete the first X bars of song?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:12/17/2004 5:10:32 PM

Also make sure you are using the Time Selection Tool. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve made a time selection with another tool and turned on ripple-edit and couldn’t figure out why it didn’t work. Only a selection made by the Time Selection Tool (the little “I” in front of the wave) will work.

~jr