New to Audio Studio, need help figuring out channels/audio tracks?

MagnusB33t wrote on 3/29/2023, 10:46 PM

I'll be blunt. I have a podcast I'm putting together with some friends and fans of a popular IP, though I'm having to be the show runner making sure everything we're working on comes together properly.

Though since everyone involved is living in different timezone's, our work is setup to where there is a drop-off, I pick up the audio files and have to stitch them together.

Following some tutorials on youtube, I have some of the basics down such as adding effects, mixing, cutting, moving and the rest I'm experimenting with though it came to a head where I started trying to stitch our work together. I've seen in the photos advertising Audio Studio that they showcase different tracks or channels and I can't figure out how that starts.

So I try the next best thing as a beginner to just try copy and pasting audio from the different files while working with the effects and tools at my disposal from fixing the audio where one VO is quieter than the other and I have to 'normalize' it or setup where two voices overlap when one needs to interrupt the other. I've then started coming into problems where Audio Studio would crash on me in constant after mixing some of the lines between VO's. It's happened every time from various methods I poked at and I don't know what I'm doing wrong here or if I need the multiple channels to work with or if there's a way to keep going without audio studio crashing on me.

I'm using Audio Studio 15. Running Windows 10.

Comments

SP. wrote on 3/30/2023, 2:40 AM

@MagnusB33t Do all of the audio files have a different format, sample rate and bit depth? Maybe this can cause problems with stability.

I think you should be able to quickly edit the channels with the status bar at the bottom. Right click or double click on the "Stereo" or "Mono" text and change the settings.

Sound Forge does not support multiple tracks like a DAW software but only multiple channels (Mono, Stereo, Surround etc.).

So maybe it isn't the right tool to layer multiple audio recordings. Sound Forge is better in fast editing single files.

It's technically still possible to merge multiple audio files but it has drawbacks. In a DAW or video editing software you would just place the tracks on top of each other and then maybe normalize and fade them in and out when needed. In Sound Forge you could copy and paste parts of the different recordings into a new file but this isn't nearly as flexible.

rraud wrote on 3/30/2023, 10:11 AM

If all the files are in the same format (type, sample rate and bit depth). You could use the 'Event' tool in Sound Forge to move the segments around with or without cross-fades,.
That said, multi-track application would be much better suited to the task. Acid, Audition, ProTools, Reaper, Samplitude and the free Audacty are multi-track options. Vegas Pro video also has a substantial multi-track DAW built in, which Sound Forge can be integrated to. btw, Vegas can also have different format files on the timeline without a need to transcode them to the same format. Not all DAWs and NLEs have this feature

MagnusB33t wrote on 3/30/2023, 4:30 PM

One file was Steroe and the other was Mono while I was mixing.

 

@MagnusB33t Do all of the audio files have a different format, sample rate and bit depth? Maybe this can cause problems with stability.

I think you should be able to quickly edit the channels with the status bar at the bottom. Right click or double click on the "Stereo" or "Mono" text and change the settings.

Sound Forge does not support multiple tracks like a DAW software but only multiple channels (Mono, Stereo, Surround etc.).

So maybe it isn't the right tool to layer multiple audio recordings. Sound Forge is better in fast editing single files.

It's technically still possible to merge multiple audio files but it has drawbacks. In a DAW or video editing software you would just place the tracks on top of each other and then maybe normalize and fade them in and out when needed. In Sound Forge you could copy and paste parts of the different recordings into a new file but this isn't nearly as flexible.

I am using Sound Forge, though I thought it was referred to as Audio Studio. Which I'll admit to being embrassed from ommitting that detail.

I am running SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 15, and I'm embarrassed to state I didn't know there was a difference.

MagnusB33t wrote on 3/30/2023, 4:31 PM

If all the files are in the same format (type, sample rate and bit depth). You could use the 'Event' tool in Sound Forge to move the segments around with or without cross-fades,.
That said, multi-track application would be much better suited to the task. Acid, Audition, ProTools, Reaper, Samplitude and the free Audacty are multi-track options. Vegas Pro video also has a substantial multi-track DAW built in, which Sound Forge can be integrated to. btw, Vegas can also have different format files on the timeline without a need to transcode them to the same format. Not all DAWs and NLEs have this feature

I will look into the software list you provided except Audacity; I've been hearing weird things involving them gathering data on folks machines though I can't confirm which.

 

Still, thanks for the software list, I'll look into them. :D

SP. wrote on 3/30/2023, 4:45 PM

@MagnusB33t You might to want to check out the current Magix Humble Bundle at https://www.humblebundle.com/software/king-content-creator-bundle-software

This will give you a DAW (Magix Samplitude Pro X5), a video editing software (Vegas Pro 18 Edit), a second license for SF Audio Studio 15 and some other things for $25.

MagnusB33t wrote on 3/30/2023, 5:44 PM

@MagnusB33t You might to want to check out the current Magix Humble Bundle at https://www.humblebundle.com/software/king-content-creator-bundle-software

This will give you a DAW (Magix Samplitude Pro X5), a video editing software (Vegas Pro 18 Edit), a second license for SF Audio Studio 15 and some other things for $25.

I bought it days ago. XD

SP. wrote on 3/30/2023, 6:24 PM

@MagnusB33t Great 😁. Then use Samplitude or Vegas to combine your audio recordings. This should work much easier.