Hi! I am new in cubase and want to join parts of my podcast automatically together after I cut something out in the middle of it. Is there a tool? Thank you!
Hi,
I’m sorry, there is no way to do this automatically.
Also be aware of the difference between the Audio Events and Audio Parts, please.
Hello, thank you, this should be a basic software tool…
I would first try to Set Spacers of 0 seconds.
If that doesn’t work as expected I would try the Shuffle mode of the grid snap type.
That’s assuming that we actually want to “cover” the time the cut material would be at if not cut.
If it’s about just cutting parts of the event out and then wanting to leave everything at its place in time, I would just Bounce all the events.
I think it should be possible to create a macro that would cut out a selected portion of an Event, move the Event(s) to the right of the cut and finally join them all together into a Part.
@Barbara_Siefken I think a small, exact description of how you want to work would be beneficial.
For example, my suggestions above are for the following scenario:
Event: [Speech - Eating 10 Crisps - Speech - Sipping noisily on coffee - Speech - Throwing forks in the sink - Speech]
1st pass: Cutting
[Speech - Eating 10 Crisps - Speech - Sipping noisily on coffee - Speech - Throwing forks in the sink - Speech]
Action: Apply Spacers of 0 seconds
[Speech - Speech - Speech - Speech]
Or do we want:
[Speech - Silence - Speech - Silence- Speech - Silence - Speech]
If you want to cut and join as you go, I think the Shuffle Snap, or even the Snap to Events would be better. Cut, flick to the left. Cut, flick to the left. If that becomes tiresome after a while, you could use Cut Time instead. But, you need to be very careful if you are working with multiple tracks, because Cut Time will remove well… all material at the time interval that you chose to cut.
Instead of “Cut” you can instead just select the range you want to “cut” (using the range tool), then hit Shift+Backspace (default assignment to the command “Delete Time”).
Then, if for some reasons you want the remaining events to be glued, you can create a macro as @mlib suggested, for example “Select All on Tracks"→"Glue”. This should create a part containing all your audio events.
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Thank you! I used audacity before and this here is so very different. I create podcasts and cut a lot of “Ähems…” and breths. I was not aware that I should glue the parts together right after cutting. Now I can´t glue the parts after I finished all the cuttings. Does this make sense? I have to do it all by hand and there are so many small parts that it is really tiresome… and not accuarate.
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I see. To be honest, if most projects are a single track, I would highly recommend what @m.c suggested; use the range tool together with Delete Time. This will leave you with many many events right next to each other, right as you go and work through the material. From there, it’s just two button presses to make them a whole, continuous event again (Select All Events on Track, Bounce Selection).
The thing here is that we are talking about very repetitive actions (editing out spots, cutting breaths and noises), so what matters in the end is what feels more comfortable and fast for you, and you only.
Personally, I would use the Spacers method. First do all the cuts until the very end, then use the command to pack the events close together in one go. Then bounce all to save my eyes from having to see all these events. It feels easier, for me.
Since I can also read the German forum, where Barbara asked the same question, I am under the impression that we should not take the term “joining together” literally. I don’t think it is about ending up with one event instead of several but rather about automatically moving events to previous events when cutting out unwanted bits and pieces in order to avoid too long pauses.
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Not sure if this would be of help, but just for the fun of it, I made up a macro anyway, as follows:
We select our very first event, then begin to hit the assigned shortcut (in my case Alt+Ctrl+Shift+G) and the events are properly rearranged.
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Alas, I can’t do a similar video for the Edit → Functions → Set Spacer between Selected Events.
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Why would you want to set spaces of the same duration between events in a podcast?
If you set the spacer to 0 seconds, you wouldn’t. 
I think this won’t work. However, 0.001 will do 
Doesn’t allow for absolute 0 anymore??
Just checked it, no. But 0.001 won’t be easily heard as far as I can tell 
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I feel you are guys are overcomplicating things a lot.
Let’s pretend to have a podcast recording:
- Put all audio tracks in a folder; switch on Group Editing for that folder
- set Snap Type to Shuffle
- chose the Range Tool
- mark the unwanted portions of audio with the range tool, then press Delete or Backspace to remove that section
- and so on and so on
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Sure thing! However, earlier I was replying to this one:
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There’s two or three slightly different ways to do this, and we’ve typed them higher up. But seeing each one in action in a gif, that’s even better!