Locking tracks

[Leroy Pimpdaddy]

Has anybody locked tracks together so that you can move them forward and backwards in unison?

I'm doing some mobile recordings on a Roland VSR880 in a chateau in France. I'm recording 8 tracks (a backing track, drums on 1 & 2, bass 3, acoustic guitar 4, keys 5 & 6 and electric guitar on 7 & 8).

I want to upload the 8 tracks from the Roland into Cubase @ home, make a mono mix of them, copy it back to 1 track on a new song on the Roland, and then go mobile again, recording the vocals on the other 7 tracks (in the ballroom).

I then want to upload the vocals + the mono mix into Cubase, lock them together, and sync them up with the backing track, saying using the sticks at the start as the locking points, eventually muting the mono mix so that I can mix the remaining 15 tracks in sync.

Has anybody locked more than a stereo pair of tracks together so that they move in unison? I know you can SELECT a few tracks at the same time and move them, but I'm looking for something a bit more robust.



Regards,
LP.

[dafduc]

Are you in SX or VST?

Dunno how many features SX retained, but there was a "group tracks" thing in VST 5.0 that seems oriented toward the kind of thing you're describing. IIRC, the tracks retained their autonomy, but actions taken on the group track were applied to all the included tracks.

Apologies if this is inaccurate - I never used the feature...

Daf

[Leroy Pimpdaddy]

I'm using VST.

Are you referring to the routing of 1-x tracks to a group fader?

It's not that I want to send them all to the same group fader, I actually want to lock them physically so that I can synchronise them with the original 8 tracks at the same time, using the drum track as the link.

Once the drum pattern is locked with the original, the rest should follow. I can then remove or mute the mono mix track.

I'll look up the manual so....


Thanks Daf....

[dafduc]

Nah - there's a special kind of track - thought it was called a group track.

Good luck.