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Hello Guys. I am Daniel Barboza. I live in Zulia,Venezuela.

This lesson is for week 2 of Introduction toMusic Production at Coursera.org.

I will be teaching Perform the importantediting tasks in your DAW including: trim,separate, crossfade, merge, grid, cycle,markers, zoom, name and color. Applied onAdobe Audition as Digital audio workstation(DAW).

INTRODUCTION

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GRAPHIC INTERFACE

This is the graphic interface for Adobe Audition Cs6

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A LITTLE THEORY

Every time we record, we create two things. We're creating an audio file , which livesin the Audio Files folder , and we are creating a region or clip inside the DAW .It's a reference to it, and region has certain parameters unique from the audio file,and I can take a large portion of the audio file or a small portion of the audio file.

The region is something that's in our DAW, and the audio file is the data that liveson our hard drive in a separate location. The reason this is important, is becausemuch of the editing you do is to the regions themselves and not to the audio files,and we call this non-destructive editing.

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A LITTLE BIT OF THEORY

Audio Files on Hard drive Region or clip inside the DAW

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TRIM

Trimming or edge editing in the DAW, It is trimming edges of aregion or clip, at the beginning or end.

You just have to position the pointer on thelower edge of the clip to activate the trimmingfunction.

Full clip

Trimmed Clip

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SEPARATE

Full clip

This is the clip section to create a new region. This is done to move andrelocate to its new position. This is done through a command button,scissors or razor tool

In audition is accessed by the R key, then selectthe clip to separate, or pressing Ctrl + K

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SEPARATE

Separate region

Razor tool

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MERGE

There comes a time in the mix we have many small regions with crossfades. The bestwe can do is create a new audio track. But before we do that, we have to take intoaccount that also create a new audio file on your hard drive.

We must be careful before creating this new file called merge or consolidation,

because if this method is a destructive editing

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MERGE

Regions with crossfades

New Region (Merge or Consolidated)

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GRID

Another important task is to move the regions from left to right. We may findsometimes that can jump to move in steps and sometimes moving smoothly. This isbecause every DAW has a grid feature.Very often we find that we want to move regions to the right place to fit with therest of the song. There are many ways in which we can achieve this. Each DAW may

be different when using the grid.

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GRID

On Audition is done by activating switch setting and then moves the region withthe mouse, and to be more precise we press Ctrl + Shift + left click and then dragthe region

Switch setting

Moved Region

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CYCLE

When we're recording or editing in the DAW, will times we need torepeat a section of the song, many times to correct details. This iscalled cycling

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CYCLE

We chose the time selection tool,below we are positioned in the areato repeat, we select it with themouse and then we go to thereproduction bar and we activate thecyclic repetition.

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MARKERS

A marker is defining a specific location within your song.

markers are great for locating for easy location of the Intro, verses, a chorus, a bridgeor an outro. It's important to put markers in and be able to name them.

Here it would be difficult to find a specific part of the song

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MARKERS

Move the playhead to the chosen area and press the M key. Rightclick and rename the new marker

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ZOOM

The zooming, it's really necessary very often to zoom way in, make a small edit, and

then zoom way back out. Sometimes there's a specific zoom tool, like a magnifyingglass, or through keyboard shortcuts.

There's nothing worse than zooming way in, and then trying to scroll back and forth tofind the thing you're trying to edit, So select first and then zoom.

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NAME

Clip nameTrack name

Name audio file

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COLOR

Right click and select Color Clip / group

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CONCLUSIONS AND THANKS

The theme already knew, but nevertheless was quite long because I had to do itin pdf.I could have made an explanatory video, but I had problems with my computer,

and I decided to do it this way.

I worked hard on this and I would love to know if I got everything right. Is thereanything I missed or could have explained better? What do you think of theaudio recording? Thank you for watching and critiquing

Thanks for reading

Sincerely Daniel Barboza