Editing Audio Files

The Undo and Redo commands revert or restore the last action that has been performed. The commands can be found in the Edit Menu and on the Toolbar. The toolbar buttons for Undo and Redo can show a history of all commands.

The clipboard commands Cut, Copy and Paste work mostly like you would expect from any other program. You can select a parts of your recording, or the entire file, and copy or cut it. Doing so will put the copied section on the clipboard, so that it can be pasted elsewhere.

Once you have copied or cut a piece of a recording, you can insert it with the paste command. If you simply place the cursor somewhere and paste, the audio data will be inserted at this position. If you make a selection and paste, the pasted audio data will replace the current selection.

This command deletes the current selection. If nothing is selected, the entire file is deleted. This can be useful if you want to quickly clear the screen when using VoceVista for practice.

If you deleted something by accident, always remember that you can use the Undo command to revert your action.

This command does the opposite of Delete. Instead of deleting the selected part of a recording, it deletes those parts that are not selected, which can be used to trim unneeded parts before and after a recording.

This command replaces the current selection with silence. This is different from the Delete command in that the recording retains its length when Replace with silence is invoked, while with Delete, the recording is shortened.

This command will insert silence at the current cursor position. It will open a window where you can specify the duration of the silence that you wish to insert. If you later wish to quickly insert the same amount of silence again, you can press the shortcut for the Reinsert silence command.

These commands will change the volume of the current selection so that it gradually fades into zero. If you have copied and pasted part of a recording to a new file, the fade commands can be applied to the edges of this segment to avoid any loud pops or clicks at the beginning and end.