Choose Edit > Delete to remove the selected sound data without copying it to the clipboard.
Choose Edit > Mode > Time (or click the Time Mode button in an editor's playbar).
Select the data you want to delete. For more information, see "Selecting data using the mouse."
Choose Edit > Delete (or control-click the waveform and choose Delete from the context menu).
If you delete data from individual channels of multichannel files, the waveform will contain silence at the end of the deleted channel. The channels in a multichannel file must always be equal in length.
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After delete |
Regions, markers, and envelope points are deleted with a selection. To turn this feature off, turn off Options > Lock to Selection > Markers/Regions and Envelope Points.