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Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2002, 3:17 PM
I'm not quite sure what you mean by join. Do you mean add one after another one? Simply drag the first file onto the time line, then drag the next file onto the timeline after the first. If you overlap them, you'll get a crossfade.

Do you mean mix them together? Drag them onto the timeline with one below the other. They will play at the same time.

Can you be more specific about what result you want to achieve?
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 3:38 PM
Sure.

I meant that I want to combine 2 tracks together as 1. I thought that you could just select two tracks next to each other, right click on them and select "join" at cursor position.

I'll be very specific: I'm trying to put a mix of songs back together. I originally had a mix album (like techno, just to give you an idea). I had split them all up at the wrong tracks times. I deleted the long file that I originally had, and so I've been trying to "put the pieces back together" so to speak. (p.s.: I thought if I ellaborated the first post, it would confuse people, cuz I usually have a tough time doing so)
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 3:43 PM
Once they are all "joined", I'll be able to put them back into "trimmer" and select the correct portions of the large track, put the portions one-by-one into the "top window" (above trimmer) so I can render them. I have about 23 portions in a track that is 120 minutes. It's an Essential Mix, where top DJ's perform all aroud the world, and they are live. You may have heard of it. This is just to let you know what I do.
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 3:52 PM
"one after another one" as you would say it, and then join them...then they could be like 1 single track
Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:11 PM
There's actually not much else you need to do. Just place them on the timeline one after the other, and they're really as joined as you will ever need them to be. You can treat them all as one track. If you want to create one long file, just render the whole track to a new file. If you want to split it up differently, place new regions and extract them. But neither of these operations requires that you do anything with the separate pieces other than place them sequentially on the timeline.
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:13 PM
I'm almost done getting the mix back onto my computer anyway. But just in case this happens again (with another mix), learning the "how to's" helps me to get things done quicker. (Sorry for splitting up my reply into four parts. that's how my brain works. i don't get my full ideas across right away, i get them at different times.)
sonicboom wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:15 PM
i am a dj too
if you want to put them together just as they were, it's a simple process.
just drag and snap them back together on a single audio time line.
providing of course you know the order----which should be easy--if you have a song list
also, even if you splice and dice the original cd mix on your time line, you should still have the original.
every project you put on the time line gives you a phantom copy.
just go to the master.
hope this helps
sb
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:17 PM
Thanks...but does that in anyway lose the quality of my songs if I render them like 3 times over? (they are mp3's)
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:19 PM
...generally speaking
Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:29 PM
Each time you rerender you will theoretically lose something. If you use high bitrates the loss will be less. However, since you've already split the songs up and lost the original, you don't have much other choice at this point.
bryanbailey wrote on 4/3/2002, 4:33 PM
I'm getting the original back though by DL'ing so I have not much to worry about. I'll just wait 83 minutes (53% done). I'll be doing something else anyway. Well, this clears up any confusion on my part. Thanks ChienWorks and DJ SonicBoom.