[OT] Re: [vorbis] volume change

al goldstein gold at dsl21.zipcon.net
Tue Mar 4 11:51:50 PST 2003



Thanks Beni,

Sorry it turned out to be complex. I appreciate your help. To change the
volume of the individual channels in the copies would use Sox?  

<p>...Al

<p>On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> On 2003-03-03, al goldstein wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply.  I use Sweep. How is it done with Sweep?
> >
> Hmm, with sweep it turns out to pretty complex actually.  Turns out it
> lacks the ability to edit individual channels.  It boasts its
> multichannel abilities, but they are of questionable utility if you
> can't edit individual channels :-(  Audacity should be easier for this
> stuff.
> 
> Anyway, there is nothing impossible, here is a hack:
> 
> * Assume you opened a stereo file.
> 
> * Separate the channels:
> 
>   + Sample -> Duplicate
> 
>   + In the first copy:
> 
>     - Sample -> Channels -> Remove Right Channel
> 
>     - Edit the left channel here if you wish
> 
>     - Sample -> Channels -> Add/Remove channels: select Stereo
> 
>   + In the second copy:
> 
>     - Sample -> Channels -> Remove Left Channel
> 
>     - Edit the right channel here if you wish
> 
>     - Sample -> Channels -> Add/Remove channels: select Stereo
> 
>     - Sample -> Channels -> Swap left/right
> 
> * Recombine the channels:
> 
>   + In one copy:
> 
>     - Select -> All (Ctrl-A)
> 
>     - Edit -> Copy (Ctrl-C)
> 
>   + In another copy:
> 
>     - Playback -> Transport -> Go to start of file (Ctrl-Home)
> 
>     - Edit -> Copy: Mix (Ctrl-M)
> 
>       Here you can control the volumes at which both channels will be
>       mixed.
> 
> Audacity is really simpler for this :-) (from the track's menu
> (the dropdown near the X) split the track, edit individually, select
> both tracks with shift, merge the tracks back).
> 
> -- 
> Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
> 
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