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So here's one.

Question time: how do you go about saving a session? You have to be really careful to do it right, or you have loads of grief later on trying to load the session.

Here's my procedure:

1 Create a folder for the session in Explorer.

2 Take each track into Edit view and use Save As to name the track and save it in the folder I've created.

3 When I'm done with that, I go back into Multitrack and click on Close Only Non-session Waveforms.

4 Then I use Save Session As in Multitrack to name the session. I don't tick Save Copies of All Associated Files.

That's it. Comments? Alternative approaches?
 
yeah that's kind of the best way.
To make it a bit easier, I do not switch to Edit view and save as etc., but after closing all non-session waves, I do rightclick on each wave block -> block properties, and give it the name of the instrument, song and date. Then save session, and every block will be saved with the name you gave it.
You don't have strange names later like git2-13, and this will prevent almost all problems with those files later.
 
wait, so you're saying that:

if i just open CEP, save my new session BEFORE any recording..then start recording..it wont put all the wavs in that folder?? i have to do it all seperately?!

and yes, i havn't begun actually USING CEP yet..just fooling around trying to learn it first.
 
uh well I didn't say that.. But if you are saving all the wave blocks you have named to your likening, you have to adjust the saving path for the first file to save, and then just click yes to all, and everything comes in that map.

If you meant this..

Otherway, ask again, I'm a CEP fanatic, but my English stays very very bad.
 
Are you making this more complicated than it should be?

When I'm recording, I name each track in the multi-track view before I start actual recording, as I'm plugging in inputs, with names such as "Vox - Bob", "Vox - Ken", and "Bass". Then I usually File...Save Session As and create a folder for the session and name it. As I record, the file names default to the track names, and if I start and stop, numbers get attached (ie, "Vox - Bob (2)", "Vox - Bob (3)"). When I'm ready to save, I Ctrl-Click any tracks I don't want in the list on the left and then select Close Files. Then I use File...Save All, which saves the session and all tracks. The first track I have to specify the folder, but all subsequent tracks will go to the same folder. It's much quicker than taking time to name each file individually.
 
yeah that's an approach, but I always want to avoid those numbers and all to get clear names.
 
My way is more like Dobro's, but since I'm such a shitty musician, I have an extra step.

Say I'm recording a Bass line. By the time I get all the way through the song, I've probably started and stopped 10 times, and begun recording parts of it on different tracks, so for one bass line, I've got maybe 10 blocks. As soon as I get through the tune, I mix all those blocks down to one .wav file and save it as "BASS (dry)", then, while it's STILL in edit view, I "Save As" Bass (FX)....then I insert the "Bass FX" track into the mutitrack immediately, make sure it's lined up, and delete the 10 blocks that have now been replaced by the one named wav. Then I hit "close all non-session files." This closes not only the 10 blocks, but it also closes the "bass (dry)" file so I can't screw it up. Then I can do whatever I think sounds good to the bass(FX) file (compress, noise redux, etc.) and I know that I've always got the original in case I muck it up.

This is especially important to me for guitars and vocals, b/c even though I use some real time effects, there are others that I ALWAYS print permanently (like vocal compression), and sometimes what sounded good at 3:00 a.m. on the headphones sounds like SHEEZ*IT the next day on playback...I also just like having the original, unaffected wav file permanently, b/c sometimes I'll learn something (shocker) about recording, and I can remix an old tune from scratch by just opening a new session and inserting all of the "dry" files.

But anyway, for me...saving each track once I get a decent take and then closing all the "non-session" files makes my computer run faster and it makes saving the session a :15 second step at the very end.
 
Oh yeah...and "thanks" dobro...this page is starting to look a little more respectable.

:D
 
ok well i can deal with numbers...(ntrack all i do is name song titel, and let the numbers do the rest)...

so i think i can handle this...haha
 
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