Task 1 - Editing
For this particular task I was assigned to show my competency at editing audio in Logic. We were given a track by the Chemical Brothers entitled ‘In Dust We Trust’. I was given a list of instructions and exact bars at where to chop the audio, and order them sequentially. The instructions had to be closely followed in order to achieve a perfectly seamless edit without any ‘clicks’.
To begin the process, I first had to beat map the audio region which allowed me to assign the desired bar position to any musical event. It meant that the audio would fit the musical timeline as desired into a solid 4/4. This was quite a tricky process as it all had to be done manually and took a lot of trial and error before the beat finally stayed in time with the metronome.
When it came to actually editing the audio, I first had to double click on a region to bring up the audio editor in Logic. From here i could finely edit the waveform to achieve the most seamless of edits. This was done by searching for a zero crossing, which is where the line of the wave meets with the zero axis in the editor, which will eliminate any clicks as shown below. 