Your DAW will come with a whole range of useful tools that will allow you to accurately alter your recordings in precise detail. Here we’ll look into the basics of what’s involved.
Even when you’ve taken the utmost care and attention to recording your audio, they’ll almost certainly require some degree of editing and alteration. It might be a subtle case of removing distracting breath sounds from a vocal, cutting out a mistake, or some unwanted background noise. It’s not the most creative part of recording, so knowing which tools can quickly get the job done can really minimise the time you need to spend on this task.
The most common commands are:
- Select
- Cut
- Copy/Paste
- Trim
- Fade in/out
Here’s an example from Studio One. Even though the shortcuts and layout may be slightly different in your DAW, the overall principles will be the same.
When it comes to editing a recording you’ve made using MIDI, you can do many of the same processes, but have control over even more factors. These range from being able to adjust how something was played, in terms of dynamics, or expression, but also cleanly moving and changing the actual notes played. This makes MIDI very versatile especially when it comes to quantising and keeping your options open. Here’s a more in depth overview of what can be done in this realm:
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