Spectral Editing by Copying Regions

Spectral editing by copying regions is useful for removing unwanted sounds from audio material.

Procedure

  1. In the Audio Editor, select the Spectrum tab.
  2. In the Selection section, select one of the selection tools.
  3. With the display set to Spectrogram or Wavelet, define a source region.
  4. In the Define and Copy section, click Copy.

    To copy the source region to another audio file, use Ctrl/Cmd-C.

  5. Place the playback cursor at the position that you want to define as the target region.
  6. In the Define and Copy section, use the Mix option to specify how much of the source region you want to copy to the target region.
  7. Right-click the Paste Exactly/Paste Ambience pop-up menu, and select the paste method that you want to apply. The following options are available:

    • To copy the defined source region to the target region, select Paste Exactly.

    • To copy an average of the frequencies of the source region, blurring the original dynamics and pitches and making the copied region appear less identifiable, select Paste Ambience.

      The paste method that you select via the menu is saved as the default.

    To paste the source region to another audio file, you can also use Ctrl/Cmd-V.

    The audio is pasted and, if Smoothing is activated, crossfaded both in the time domain and in the frequency domain.

  8. Play back the audio file to check the result.