Silencing a portion of all tracks?

CraigG58;
How many tracks does your recorder have that you silence a section all once with two clicks?

Joe_A
CraigG58;
How many tracks does your recorder have that you silence a section all once with two clicks?

Not sure what you're referring to, Zargg's post maybe? For whatever reason, I couldn't get that to work. Maybe he's using custom key mapping.
 
If you're referring to my recorder, it's a Tascam DP32-SD which has 8 mono tracks and 12 tracks that can be switched between mono and stereo, thus the "32". It's rare that I have something which needs to be recorded in stereo, so I normally run all of them in mono and perform my panning in Cakewalk during mix-down.
 
On this recorder, it's not two "clicks", but still very simple. You just set in/out points, enter the track editor and select "Silence", then the tracks you want affected between those two points. All done.
 

CraigG58
Unless I'm missing something, I've found an even simpler way to accomplish this.
 
I never noticed the "Mute" and "Erase" tools before. To mute:
 
- Enter track view.
- Press F10 to toggle Mute or Erase in the tools module (for my purposes, Mute).
- Starting in the lower half of the top track, left click and drag down to select the area you want to mute. When you release, mute displays small dots above each waveform to indicate where the muting begins and ends.
- That's it!

 
Given you felt putting an automation envleope on the Master bus was too much work, I didn't think you would want have to region-mute every clip individually. 
 
Personally I think either bus automation or splitting and clip-muting are easier and more easily undone/redone, but glad to hear you got it figured in any case.

brundlefly

CraigG58
Unless I'm missing something, I've found an even simpler way to accomplish this.
 
I never noticed the "Mute" and "Erase" tools before. To mute:
 
- Enter track view.
- Press F10 to toggle Mute or Erase in the tools module (for my purposes, Mute).
- Starting in the lower half of the top track, left click and drag down to select the area you want to mute. When you release, mute displays small dots above each waveform to indicate where the muting begins and ends.
- That's it!

 
Given you felt putting an automation envleope on the Master bus was too much work, I didn't think you would want have to region-mute every clip individually. 
 
Personally I think either bus automation or splitting and clip-muting are easier and more easily undone/redone, but glad to hear you got it figured in any case.

 
It's not that I thought it was too much work, and I do use automation for various things quite a bit. Nothing had to be done individually, it was all in one shot using the three steps above, and took about 10 seconds. Hey, everything's easy when you know how to do it, right? 
 
In the case of what I needed to do today, it was just easier to use the tools I linked because it only needed to be done once for a very short period, across all tracks. Another instance I can see myself using these tools would be for short sections of tracks that might contain various instances of noise, for example microphone pops. For spot fixes like that, I think mute will be very convenient.
 
Anyway, for the purposes of what I was doing today, I think using automation envelopes would have been overkill. But, I will definitely keep the techniques you outlined in mind for future reference during other, more complex tasks.
 
Thanks again!

Hey, no need for apologies, and debate is a good thing. I know I learned something, never knew about "Offset Mode" before!

There is an exact way to do this. File menu/Process /Apply Effect/Remove Silence. Ta da... ;) lol
Hope this help! Have a nice day.

CraigG58
Unless I'm missing something, I've found an even simpler way to accomplish this.
 
I never noticed the "Mute" and "Erase" tools before. To mute:
 
- Enter track view.
- Press F10 to toggle Mute or Erase in the tools module (for my purposes, Mute).
- Starting in the lower half of the top track, left click and drag down to select the area you want to mute. When you release, mute displays small dots above each waveform to indicate where the muting begins and ends.
- That's it!
 
Mute tool:
https://www.cakewalk.com/...amp;help=Tools.16.html
Erase tool:
https://www.cakewalk.com/...amp;help=Tools.15.html
 
P.S. Forgot to mention, erase is destructive, and mute is not. So, two nice choices there as well.

Oh hell yeah! Thanks for the tip - definitely have had situations where I could use either one of these ways.

brundlefly

11Dreams
There is an exact way to do this. File menu/Process /Apply Effect/Remove Silence. Ta da... ;) lol
Hope this help! Have a nice day.

That'll work if you want to remove something that's already 'silent', but OP didn't indicate that the part he wanted to silence was noise floor level.

Not really, I believe you can set the level of the db to take out below any db. I know I removed part of a vocal track once... oops... :)
 

11Dreams
I believe you can set the level of the db to take out below any db. I know I removed part of a vocal track once... oops... :)
 

 
Exactly. It's not a good tool for removing specific high-level material without affecting anything else.