Editing The Multitrack in CEP

[kelhard]

Hi there.

I recorded some drum tracks (spread across 7 tracks) recently for a new project I've started. I want to edit the actual multitrack. I want to take a small part from later in the song and "splice" it in to where the drummer made one mistake. Then, after coming back into the song from the bridge, the take breaks down, and the drummer starts again from the last 2 bars in the bridge, and finished the song flawlessly. I want to take that whole section out, and take the 2nd take from the last bar of the bridge and attach it to the rest of the first performance.

I want to know how I can do this in a multitrack field, and keep everything on its own track, and not do the conventional mix down to stereo, edit the drum track and use that to overdub the other instruments.

Can this be done????? Can anyone help??? Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[sikter]

It can be done. Actually I do that often.
Right click on your audio in multitrackview and start to duplicate, split and move clips.
Using volume envelopes helps too.
Remember to use time lock afterwords.
I don't have time to write details now.
sikter

 

[RawDepth]

Hi there.

I recorded some drum tracks (spread across 7 tracks) recently for a new project I've started. I want to edit the actual multitrack. I want to take a small part from later in the song and "splice" it in to where the drummer made one mistake. Then, after coming back into the song from the bridge, the take breaks down, and the drummer starts again from the last 2 bars in the bridge, and finished the song flawlessly. I want to take that whole section out, and take the 2nd take from the last bar of the bridge and attach it to the rest of the first performance.

I want to know how I can do this in a multitrack field, and keep everything on its own track, and not do the conventional mix down to stereo, edit the drum track and use that to overdub the other instruments.

Can this be done????? Can anyone help??? Please let me know. Thanks.

The manual explains all of this and more.

One thing to consider...It is hit or miss whether you can successfully edit drum tracks due to lots of bleed over and cross talk in every track. Example: If you happen to move a part with say, a cymbal crash in the background, overtop of a part without a cymbal crash, then you have basically made a mess out of your tracks. I generally try to get the drummer to play it again without mistakes.

Good luck,
RawDepth