I feel like this must be a dumb question but I can't find it documented anywhere. If you can point me to there I'd really appreciate it.
When I edit my recordings, cleaning up noise and splitting tracks, the waveform display is really important, and I love the way it works. But there's something I can't help feeling I must be missing.
First, are the upper and lower before and after, or different channels? If the latter, why are they so different? Also, what do the colors mean? I see two kinds of green, plus grey.
Am I doing something wrong? Here's a picture example:
Thanks!
The upper trace is the left-hand channel and the lower trace the right. You probably clicked on the 'play left / right channel only' button in the toolbar to get the display looking like that (grey, in that context, means 'disabled').
The paler green is a simplified version of the waveform display which is intended to help identify track breaks (not sure if it helps much). You can turn it off via Menu -> Options -> Cursor Options -> Show Simplified Waveform Display if you don't like it.
Perfect! Thanks! Couple of thoughts:
Indeed, getting track breaks right takes a lot of time fiddling to get starts and ends right. It might help if the vertical scale showed numbers on both the Cleanup and Split screens, to set the start/end levels better.
Also, your various popup screens are very helpful, but I always have to close them to use the contents. I think this is what they call "modal" dialogs, right? You probably can't do this, but is there any way to leave them open when I return to the parent screen?