Deleting space in several tracks simultaneously?

[Cooney]

Suppose I have three tracks. The actual sound on each track starts at about 10 seconds on the timeline. It would look something like this on the timeline:

________ represents silence
^^^^^^^^^ represents recorded sound

Track 1. __________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Track 2. _________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Track 3. __________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is there a way to select the silence in the beginning of all three tracks SIMULTANEOUSLY and delete that section simultaneously on all three tracks, thereby pushing the actual beginning of the sound on all three tracks back closer to time zero?

So far I have accomplished the same thing thusly: I save the whole thing (all three tracks) as a single merged wave file, then I open the new wave file and delete the first ten seconds and then just slide the part to the left closer to time zero.

Is there a way to do this rather than my merge to a wave file method?

 

[Cooney]

OK, I figured this out. I can shift-click and select all of my parts in all of my tracks and then slide them ALL over to time zero simultaneously.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Sorry nobody got to your questions in time, but thanks for posting your solutions!

Slackmaster 2000

 

[Cooney]

Glad to help, Slackmaster 2000.

I've gotten so much from this forum I think its right to try to give back when possible.

I posted the same questions over at the N-track website forum and got basically the same answers I came up with on my own.

I have a feeling that, like in the graphics program I use (Adobe PhotoShop), N-track will have a number of ways to resolve any particular problem.