Copy and paste from takes

[aaronmcoleman]

Ok, silly question but I just can't seem to do it or find how.

I wanna copy and past just one take at a time from one track to a new one. Basically I'm comping a guitar solo because I suck too bad to play it at once. I just want to slice up the original track and copy parts of the takes that I want to another track for the comp.

Make sense?

Thanks.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

To slice up the audio just click on the place in the block of audio where you want to split it then press "S". Drag a piece down and a new track is automatically created. Place the cursor at the beginning of a piece so when you drag it down you can snap it to the right point in time.

You can also select a section of the timeline then right click on the audio and select "Copy selected area of items" and paste it onto the new track, using the cursor and snapping to keep it placed correctly.

 

[aaronmcoleman]

Thanks!

I can slice it up, and drag all of the takes in the slice, but I just want to drag one take not all 6 that I have in the track. I can explode takes to individual tracks and copy them from there...which may be the best way...but this song is already getting out of control and has too many tracks for my limited skills.

 

[fat_fleet]

Why not drag all 6 takes and then Take->Crop To Active Take on the new track?

 

[VomitHatSteve]

+1 to FF.
Cut out the part that you want and then delete the excess takes.

 

[aaronmcoleman]

Cool thanks. I didn't know that was there.

 

[RAMI]

You could also "Explode all takes to separate tracks" or something close to that. Right click on the item and choose TAKES. "Explode, etc...." should be in that drop down.

I wouldn't have been able to answer this 2 days ago, but I just happened to be reading the manual yesterday (I need a life), and discovered a bunch of things I didn't know I could do. The TAKE options are something I happened to scroll to, so I read it. I guess it was meant to be. Kizmit.

 

[aaronmcoleman]

You could also "Explode all takes to separate tracks" or something close to that. Right click on the item and choose TAKES. "Explode, etc...." should be in that drop down.

I wouldn't have been able to answer this 2 days ago, but I just happened to be reading the manual yesterday (I need a life), and discovered a bunch of things I didn't know I could do. The TAKE options are something I happened to scroll to, so I read it. I guess it was meant to be. Kizmit.

That's what I think I'm gonna do so I can overlap parts and do cross fades and what not.

I didn't want to initially because the song already has 30+ tracks (which to me might as well have a million), but I think that's the best way to do what I want, I really just want to copy a part of a take and paste it into a new track without getting all the other takes, but that seems impossible.

I guess I'm gonna explode the takes to separate tracks and cut and paste to a comped track, then I can delete the old tracks when I'm done.

on a side note, is there a way to hide certain tracks....like so I can keep the originals but not have them clutter up my screen?

thanks!

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I assume you'll be deleting the excess tracks after you extract the one you want, right?

 

[fat_fleet]

on a side note, is there a way to hide certain tracks....like so I can keep the originals but not have them clutter up my screen?

If you're trying to keep entire recorded tracks that you're not using in your project, you can just go ahead and remove them and the WAVs will still be in whatever folder you're using as a directory (set in Project Settings). As long as you don't "Clean Current Project Directory" (which wipes out everything not in use by the project which calls it- DO NOT do this if your current project shares a directory with other projects), those WAVs will still be there for reimporting, using in other projects etc.
I generally start a new track media folder for each individual project. And if there's anything I want to keep that I'm not using in that project, I'll just make a sub-folder and drag the WAV on in. That way I can still clean the current directory without losing anything I might want to use in the future.

And I'm kinda assuming you'll be rendering the comped track when you're done putting it together so it doesn't depend on the original WAVs...

 

[VomitHatSteve]

As long as you don't "Clean Current Project Directory" (which wipes out everything not in use by the project which calls it- DO NOT do this if your current project shares a directory with other projects), those WAVs will still be there for reimporting, using in other projects etc.

At least as recently as version 2, the default was to store ALL projects' raw data in one folder.
I wiped out about a year's worth of tracking before I learned that!

 

[soundchaser59]

Why not drag all 6 takes and then Take->Crop To Active Take on the new track?

I do this, but you don't have to consume a new track. I use the "S" key to slice up my takes, then I audition to find out which pieces of which takes I want to keep, mute the unwanted pieces, review and repeat until I have a good composite take, then delete the muted pieces by clicking on each one and hitting delete. Then I'm left with only the pieces from each take that I want to keep. Then crop to active take and it will automatically redo the track into one cohesive take, one track.

And it's all non-destructive so you can undo it if you dont like it. I do this with almost every hurry-up track I record, especially vocals since I hate my voice so bad. Theonly instrument I have any hope of getting a good recording in one take is maybe a guitar solo or a guitar rhythm track, maybe.......