If you have ever tried to play an MP3 track from your computer, then no doubt you will know how annoying it can be when you want to listen to the song but cannot hear any of the sounds. This is because there is no external device that allows you to hear the music, except, of course, for the headphones plugged into your computer. The same thing applies to audio files. You cannot hear the splits on the tracks in Audacity if you do not have the appropriate crosstalk adapter.
For those who are not familiar with the splits, here is a simple explanation. You start playing a track and if you do not hear any splits or background noise, you simply press the space bar to hide the tracks. This is useful when you do not want to hear the player volume. Another example is if you are working in a noisy environment where the room is filled with distracting background sounds, you can simply mute the player and listen to the track without hearing any background noises. It is useful to use this feature in busy situations such as at a concert or in a business setting, so you do not need to turn up the volume to be heard clearly.
If you wish to learn how to split tracks in audacity, the first step is to create the tracks. To do this, go to the Track Menu (found within the main menu at the bottom right of the display) and select New Track. Once you have selected a track, click the play button and begin playing. Depending on the size of your audio file, this may take quite some time. When finished, you will see two tabs appear below the track, one for the left channel and one for the right.
How to Split Tracks in Audacity
Click on the tab for the left channel. On the next tab, click the play button again. A drop down menu will appear, choose the regular play option. Use this option if you want to play the track in regular stereo, as opposed to using the splits option which creates 3-track stereo tracks.
This brings us to how to split tracks in Audacity, when creating a track. To do this, click once on the play icon again, in the small square beneath the track name. This will display a play icon. Double click this icon to open a new split. A drop down menu containing three choices should be displayed. Choose the normal option, which is the track you wish to split into two tracks.
Double click on the right channel to open it in the normal mode. You will then hear a cross fader option. The cross fader adjusts the balance of the left and right channels, so that they are more balanced when played together. Use this option to increase the level of bass in the left channel and make the tempo faster in the right channel. This makes the music sound fuller and warmer.
If, after adjusting the splits option, you still find that your track sounds too 'one sided' or lack a sense of space between instruments then you might want to adjust the levels. Double click the level knob and adjust it to make the level of each instrument far greater than what they are in the mix. The reasoning for this is that when these levels are increased, the sound is more robust and far more distinct. Once you have finished tweaking the levels, click once again on the play icon to bring up your track in the normal mode.
This brings us to one last step on how to split tracks in Audacity. Click once again on the play icon and, in the output pane, click 'CTRL+O' to toggle the Auto Save option. Once you have done so, the track will be saved and you can then use the newly created track name within Audacity to produce the desired effect. This is also known as the 'named tag' method of saving a track because you can name each of the elements of your track to create individual and unique tracks. So, if you need to change the name of an audio track to something more specific, say My Track II, instead of creating a new name and entering 1, enter 2, thereby changing the name of the audio track to My Track II.
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