Combining the contents of tracks...

[Atom Bomb]

I think in olden times this may have been referred to Bouncing? Not sure.

But heres what it is.

Got a new tune. Super stoked on it.

I used to be of the mindset that if i can't do the guitar and bass tracks in one take it wasn't worth doing. But this new one is a tad more 'complex' then my previous stuff.

So i have been biting of segments in smaller chucks.

So the intro bass part was done in a night and i contiued composing on another night i discovered that in reaper i can duplicate a track and it's setting

Now thats all well and good but now i have two seperate tracks of bass.

Which is guess isn't that bad but how can i join the two together seamlessly.

Yes, i could go back and re-record the whole thing in one or two takes in its entirety (which is probably whats going ot happen)

but say for instance the take in track and the take in the duplicated trackare flawless how can i put them together and have them mesh with out noticing to much that they are quite obviously two different takes.

There is no audiable difference, as it is a bass amp sim, so i don't have to worry so much about mic placments and difference in sound. same settings same volumes etc.


Any tips? suggestions?

 

[Yonce N Mild]

You are using reaper right? But this is two separate tracks not two separate takes?


I would cut em up and drag and drop. Just set your marker where you want to cut and split the track. ( I think the keyboard short cut is "s")
If the change sounds rough you could crossfade a bit.

 

[Yonce N Mild]

Also for future information reaper does multiple takes really well. If you just leave a track armed and record again it will record another "take" which will be visible under your first take. You can switch between takes on the fly and even chop them up and switch between them. Takes are pretty much unlimited.
Makes it really easy to comp multiple takes together.

 

[Atom Bomb]

Yes i am using reaper. I posted it here t oget answers from reaper users rather then posing in the NEWB forum just to get a more direct and practical answer...

Yes, its two seperate tracks, each track is a bass track but for argument sake say one is the the intro and the second is say a verse....

Also...
Crossfade.

term i hear lots but not sure i know how to apply it practically?


I did actually did do a multiple take in one track but i had three takes in in the one track and it looked fucked up...

haha looked...

but if i do that and say i really hate the 1st and 3rd take how can i delete them?

 

[Yonce N Mild]

To delete takes, Click on the take to activate it and then right click and select delete active take. I believe there is a way to hide takes as well so it doesn't look so messy.

As far as the crossfade goes, you might not need it but I believe if you overlap 2 clips it will automatically crossfade for you. So cut the one track one beat later than you want to switch and cut the next track one beat earlier than you want so switch, so that the two clips overlap by one beat. Drag one clip to the other track and it should auto crossfade for you. If not you can grab the edge of the clip near the top and drag it to create a fade in or out.

I hope that makes sense. I'm not in front of my DAW pc right now so I can't check to see if I'm explaining it right.

Just mess around with it a bit. Reaper has some great options for splicing tracks together.

 

[Lo-Fi Mike]

consolidate

good info, here is another cool feature to use when all your fades and placements are solid.

 

[Yonce N Mild]

That's pretty cool Mike. I've never tried that. Thanks for the info.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

Crossfading took me a while to figure out too, so here are the "gotchas" I noticed to be aware of.

In your box of controls in the upper left hand corner is the auto-crossfade button. In older GUIs it looks like a sideways hour glass. I guess in the newer versions it looks like some ramps standing in front of each other. If you have that enabled, any time two files in the same track overlap, they will fade in/out against each other.

You want to make sure your default fades (in the preferences (ctrl+p) menu) are set to the straight-line (linear?) fade. Otherwise the tracks' volumes won't match.

Don't forget to turn cross-fade off when you're done with it, otherwise it'll keep on fading your tracks in and out as you drag them around your project!