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Editing Audio
• Adjust Right Side To Left adjusts the right range boundary leftward to the next zero
crossing point.
• Adjust Right Side to Right adjusts the right range boundary rightward to the next zero
crossing point.
Finding beats
For some editing tasks, such as constructing drum loops and similar musical phrases, you
need to select audio between beats. You can usually pick out where the beats are by looking
for the peaks in a waveform. You can also use a Find Beats command.
Once you find beats, you can save them as Beat Cues, making it easy to locate the beats
again. (See “Working with cues” on page 96.)
To find the beginning of a beat:
1 Click in the waveform display to the left of the first beat you want to find.
2 Choose Edit > Find Beats > Find Next Beat (Left). The cursor moves to the beginning
of the next beat.
To select audio between beats:
1 Find the beginning of a beat.
2 Choose Edit > Find Beats > Find Next Beat (Right) to select from the current cursor
position to the next beat.
3 If you want to select more than one beat, choose Edit > Find Beats > Find Next Beat
(Right) again. Each time you choose this command, Adobe Audition adds the next beat to
the selection.
When you select audio to construct a loop, click the Play Looped button in the transport
controls to preview the loop. After any necessary tweaking, you can then save, paste, or
add the loop to the Cue List.
To adjust the settings that Adobe Audition uses to find beats:
Choose Edit > Find Beats > Beat Settings. Enter new values for Decibel Rise and Rise
Time, and click OK.
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