[Rwp] Help with noise removal

Mon May 23 19:46:16 EDT 2016

There is cross fading and auto ducking, is that what you mean?  Or do you 
have a jumble of little tracks you want to take clipped ends off of?  You 
can set up "chains" to automagically do repetitive things for you.

If I were going to take the learning curve into audio editing again I would 
certainly do it with Reaper.  My willingness to struggle through learning 
curve is limited right now so I'll not dive in too much farther than 
immediate gratification.  I get enough gratification with hardware sliders, 
knobs, buttons, keys, and strings.

Basically, it's way more simple to start with a good recording.  Gnomesayin?

Peace,
d

Peace,
d
There are lots of ways to do it... lots of things pop up on Google... you 
might need to be more specific than "around segments".

You can cross fade, auto duck, ... I only fade my stuff in at the beginning 
and out at the end if I don't do that manually with my mixer.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nolan Darilek
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 4:20 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Help with noise removal

Noise removal, OK. What about auto-fading in and out around segments
where audio is removed? I found that aspect alone took up a whole lot of
time in my edits when I used Audacity.

Apologies, I know this is a bit tangential to Reaper, but this thread
kind of turned into one about me using the wrong tool for this job. And
that may very well be true, but I thought I'd done a reasonable amount
of due diligence and just wanted to know how to accessibly follow some
instructions I found.

Thanks.
On 05/23/2016 05:55 PM, David Engebretson Jr wrote:
> I'm using Audacity 2.1.2, JAWS 17, and the latest Audacity scripts from 
> Gary Campbell.  It's quite straight forward to do noise removal.
>
> 1. select noise profile
> 2. select track to remove noise profile from
> 3. repeat until happy.
>
> Happiness can be difficult to find when learning curves are involved. 
> There's lots of willing folks ready to help on the Audacity list.  Or, if 
> you prefer, you can find me as David on VORail and/or my email addy is: 
> d.engebretson at comcast.net
>
> Peace,
> d
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Nolan Darilek
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:30 PM
> To: rwp at bluegrasspals.com
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Help with noise removal
>
> Thanks. My understanding, based on an albeit limited amount of research,
> was that Reaper was better than Audacity for editing podcasts and
> podcast-like audio. In particular, I like that it auto fades in and out
> audio around deletions, something that took up lots of time with
> Audacity. Also, it is claimed that ReaFIR's noise removal algorithm is
> better than that of Audacity. I'm also not sure if Audacity's
> accessibility has improved over the last few years, but the last time I
> attempted to use it I didn't get spoken feedback for such useful but
> basic features as selecting sections of audio on a track. I could select
> a track, but got no spoken feedback when attempting to remove a piece of
> audio to strike out a flubbed sentence.
>
>
> So, unless Audacity access has improved, or a plugin will auto-fade
> audio around deletion points, I think Audacity will be more painful to
> use than would Reaper. I did some research regarding using it for
> podcast production and it seemed like a workable and better Audacity
> alternative. Did I just not do enough research?
>
>
>
> On 05/23/2016 04:55 PM, Alan wrote:
>> Hi there:
>> In my opinion, perhaps you are not using the most useful tool for your 
>> needs. It is not related to your experience or skill level at all, but 
>> editing audio in reaper is like cooking a burger using a laser gun. it is 
>> doable, but, well, if audacity seems hard to handle for you, definitely 
>> reaper will be almost the same. Reaper"s philosofy is oriented for music 
>> production, I recomend you to take another look at audacity (it is a 
>> great software and prety accessible), goldwave, or soundforge, if you 
>> want to simply edit audio.
>> Talking about noise reduction, I never had success doing it in reaper, 
>> someone else could help you if possible; anyways, it is prety doable and 
>> easy in audacity, much easier, I am sure.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> Y
>>
>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>>
>>> El 23 may 2016, a las 19:19, Nolan Darilek <nolan at thewordnerd.info> 
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>> Hey all. New to Reaper and decided to give it a shot after fighting with 
>>> Audacity for years and feeling like it makes my light audio editing a 
>>> pain. I've been reading lots, and while there's plenty of information 
>>> out there, it seems to be presented across several different sources and 
>>> makes getting up and running challenging. So apologies if there are 
>>> basic answers to my questions which I just haven't found.
>>>
>>> My setup is Reaper 5.20 with the Osara plugin running under NVDA. I have 
>>> a track recorded on a somewhat noisy digital recorder, so my first task 
>>> is removing noise.
>>>
>>> I've found this guide:
>>>
>>> http://www.homebrewaudio.com/reafir-madness-hidden-noise-reduction-tool-in-reaper/
>>>
>>> To make my task easier, I recorded about 30 seconds of ambient noise on 
>>> my recorder before my voice begins. I set the loop start/end points, 
>>> enabled repeat, ensured that the track contains only noise. Then I 
>>> followed these instructions right up to the point where I'm told to 
>>> close the effects window, which I can't seem to do. What I do is enable 
>>> the Create Noise Profile checkbox and play my noise, but nothing I do 
>>> ever gets it removed.
>>>
>>> Also, this article seems to imply that eventually you'll hear silence, 
>>> because the noise filter will remove the noise from the repeated track. 
>>> I never hear silence. Instead, I hear my noisy loop repeated again and 
>>> again. Additionally, the Osara commands shift/control-shift-p claim 
>>> there are no effects on the selected tracks. This leads me to believe 
>>> that I'm just editing effect parameters, and there's some enable/persist 
>>> step obvious in the UI but not apparent to accessibility. I think 
>>> there's a bit in the performance settings dialog where it shows effect 
>>> performance, but I never see the values climb above 0.
>>>
>>> What am I missing? Trying to be patient but this is enormously 
>>> frustrating. I'm a software developer with lots of experience, and 
>>> Reaper shouldn't be *this* confusing. :) Audio editing sure, but I can't 
>>> even apply an effect.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> RWP mailing list
>>> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
>>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
>> _______________________________________________
>> RWP mailing list
>> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
>
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp

_______________________________________________
RWP mailing list
RWP at bluegrasspals.com
http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp 