Slau, did you notice if the lanes translated into the representation on
your control surface? Last time I tried using this it didn't and that
was an early version of PT 10. The other thing I found confusing was
that you could also take the insertion cursor to another track. At the
time I wasn't using the show and hiding of specific tracks.
HF
On 3/21/2015 2:39 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote:
The other day, HF brought up the subject of using playlist lanes and that it
didn't seem to work well with voiceOver. I've looked into it further and, while
it's possible to use VoiceOver to promote sections of various playlists to the
master playlist, in my opinion, it's not as efficient as simply switching
between playlists in normal waveform view. Here's what goes on when using
playlist lanes instead of waveform view:
Lanes are displayed beneath the master playlist which is the top-most playlist.
Two buttons appear in each playlist lane, a solo button and a button to copy to
the main playlist. If you don't solo any playlist lane, you will hear nothing
being played back from the main playlist, assuming it's empty. when you press a
solo button within one of the playlist lanes, you will hear that particular
playlist being played. Pressing other solo buttons will instead solo those
playlist lanes. The tricky thing, however, is that the insertion point can be
in any of the lanes while any of the lanes are soloed. In other words, you can
solo lane 2 and scrub in lane 4. You will not hear the scrub because you have
lane 2 in solo. Further, this mode of solo in playlist lanes is independent of
the track's solo button. This can get a little confusing if you don't follow
along. Further, if you're in a lane that is soloed and you move the insertion
down to a lower lane with Control-semicolon, pressing Shi
ft-s will not necessarily turn off the solo but it will solo the lane within
which the insertion appears. The behavior is not what I'd call intuitive. Mind
you, for a sighted person, it all makes perfect sense because one can see at a
glance which lane is soloed and where the insertion point is located. It
certainly is usable and it's quite possible to accomplish the task of promoting
sections of various playlists with the Control-Option-v command after passing
the keystroke through VoiceOver but, to me, it's still preferable to switch
between playlists.
My personal method for editing playlists is as follows:
I always keep the initially created playlist blank and I automatically
duplicate the empty playlist for each take. Assuming we've recorded 3 takes of
a vocal, I'll start with choosing the overall best take and copying it in its
entirety to the top-most main playlist. I'll normally listen through until the
first objectionable word or phrase. Let's say the best take was take 3. I would
then switch to take 1. Incidentally, setting a hotspot on the playlist selector
is a good idea. That said, while switching between playlists, VoiceOver will
normally stay focused on the playlist selector so just pressing
control-Option-Space Bar will work almost every time. The hot spot helps as a
backup.
After listening to the alternate playlists, I select the phrase, usually while
holding down the shift key while scrubbing but, of course, there are several
ways of selecting the audio. One more switch to the main playlist and a paste
and I continue on to the next problematic word or phrase. Compiling in this
manner is perhaps not as quick as visually soloing between playlist lanes but
it is very straight-forward and reliable.
Slau
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