Macro Track Selection

[nimble lotus]

I'm trying to create a macro to take two files, add silence to the first, then align them end-to-end and export as one file. No matter that I do, i get an error that "Silence requires one or more tracks to be selected". What am I doing wrong?

[nimble lotus]

Ok, I've updated my macro so that it does most of what I want, it currently looks like this. My only remianing problem is that no matter how I configure Silence, it does not save my settings. I want 3 seconds silence, and it will add only the default 1264 samples. How can I convince it to add the 3s I want?

[nimble lotus]

I'm currently investigating creating a Nyquist plugin. All I really want to do is INSERT silence. Why is this so hard to automate?

[wind spade]

I always struggle with creating new audio with a macro. One way to do it is to duplicate existing audio, then silence it.

@rare yew once showed me how to avoid this horrible kludge, but I've lost my notes. 😀

[rare yew]

To add 3 seconds of silence at the start of a track:

1. Select the first 3 seconds of the track
2. Apply "Repeat" (once), so that there are now 2 copies of the first 3 seconds, one after the other in the same track.
3. Select the first 3 seconds
4. Apply "Silence" (to silence the first 3 seconds)

[wind spade]

thx.

[nimble lotus]

I made a simple Nyquist plugin to add 3s and then added it to my macro. So that works now

[rare yew]

Another useful "trick" is that you can use the Nyquist Prompt in a Macro. This allows you to run custom Nyquist code in a Macro without cluttering your list of installed effects.