Massive Problem That Needs Help

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I hope I have chosen the correct the forum, since its about recording track thought this would be appropriate. Onto my problem, after spending three months on recording a track and having it ready for mixing, I find myself at the end of my teather due to this.
Originally I got a drum track - a multi-track that was bounced down into one single drum track. With that single drum track In performed several edits, took a part of the end and swpped it to the front of the track, editted a section in the middle and cut out a bit here and there until I got a solid drum track that was perfect for what I wanted. From there I built my song adding instruments, vocals ect until the finished recording. NOW, my mixing engineer has told me he needs a multi-track version of the drum track. Problem is I have that but not in the exact edited form of the single drum track. My dilemna is (I use Cubase) how can I track down the exact edit points of my single drum track so that I copy those edit points and section so that I can recreate those in the multi-track drum track so that then I can easily swap the drum track for the multi-version track into my project and give it to the mixer. So can somebody tell me how can I do this, if its even possible. I've asked a few others about this and they have told me that unless the original edits were down on multi-track then its impossible to recover the points or find them where they were made on the single drum track. Please help!!!
 
You do it visually. Next time add cue markers and save a separate drum mixing session.
 
StarMan said:
Originally I got a drum track - a multi-track that was bounced down into one single drum track. With that single drum track In performed several edits
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I"m assuming you have the individual drum tracks, and that you're referring to a stereo sub-mix of the drums (which is 2 tracks, I would hope, not 1) that you've done the editing on - it's a little unclear in your post. I'm further assuming that you either didn't use markers, or you've erased them. Whoops... Big whoops...

Point #1 - I'm not familiar with Cubase, but it's software.... doesn't it have a million UNDO levels that you could retrieve the information from?

Point #2 - if you only did several edits, can you not do them again to your raw tracks? Might be better to bite the bullet and repeat, rather than spend hours and hours researching a technical solution

Point #3 - any mixing engineer is ALWAYS going to want the raw tracks... I do this stuff occasionally, and, painful though it is, I always work on the individual raw tracks (and I'm using a standalone DAW with really crap editing functionality) as the mix is never determined until all the instruments are there. And how hard is it to cut and paste across multiple tracks with software? Not hard, I would imagine...

Sorry there's no silver bullet solution here, but you've learnt something, which is always valuable.. Good luck! :)
 
Alternatively, you could just challenge his skills and tell him that the single drum track is what it is and it's how you happen to want it. He can't have you jailed or deported.......{I hope}.
 
Get the multitracks...line them up with the bounced single track...compare and make the edits across the grouped multitrack.

It's called learning the hard way.....but it shouldn't be that much work. :)
 
Line up the edited stereo track with the original drum tracks and get to work.
 
You can't, really. You have to start over again. Unfortunately, making edits to individual tracks is much harder than on the stereo track.

If you're happy with the track you sent off, tell the mixing engineer to go pound sand.
 
Thanks to all the replies, I appreciate. I have spent days on trying to salvage this, by copying all the dits on the ain single stereo drum track so I could replace it with the multi-track version, and I have no luck whatsoever. So after spending months on this track and now that everything has been recorded, I would need to start all over again, and that would be intolerable. So I will just give it to my mixing engineer and hope he or someone can mix the track decently with the single stereo drum track and make it sound great without having to need the multi-track. I just hope that mixing CAN be done for this!
 
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