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"Inverse Audio" and "Reverse Audio" seem to produce the same result

Jordi Moragues · started 2018-04-18 16:01 · updated 2018-04-19 12:08

The items "Inverse Audio" and "Reverse Audio" in the audio region context menu seem to just reverse the audio. That is, make the sample play backwards. Therefore the functions are redundant and only "Reverse Audio" would be required. Suggestion: If the idea is to provide an analogous function to "Inverse Automation", in which the automation curve is flipped around the horizontal axis, then "Inverse Audio" could invert the phase of the sample. This technique is often used when combining different recordings of the same sound source.

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2018-04-19 11:42 · 2018-04-19

Thanks André! My bad, I didn't think of checking the functions with non-standard audio events in them. I think that I got confused because these functions mention "Audio", so I thought that they would act on the waveform itself, not on the events controlling its playback. Maybe "Invert Playback" and "Reverse Playback" would be more accurate?