Concatenating with silence in between stimuli

We got a question about how to put your items together into a single sound file with a second of space in between. Since this might be a question that several of you have, I thought I’d answer it here. Here are two methods:
1. (Covered in class I believe) Save all of your sounds (Save > Save as WAV file…), and the one second of silence that you created to files in an easily findable folder (for the silence, you did Sound > Create Sound from formula, and changed the formula to 0 “zero”). Remove all of the items from the object window, and then add them one at a time to the Object window (Open > Read from file…)in the order that you want (Sound1, silence, Sound4, silence, Sound6, silence …). Then select them all, and do Combine > Concatenate.
2. Copy the silence onto the end of each of your sound files and concatenate after. Select the silence and choose View & Edit. Then select the whole thing (Select > Select…, values 0 and 1 second), copy it (Edit > Copy), and open each of the sound files, click at the end, and paste in the silence.
Update: Maggie Griesmer pointed out to me after class that an easier way to do this is to concatenate your stimuli first, and then paste in silence in between each pair. Thanks Maggie!

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