My newest CEP gripes/questions

[Beezoboy]

Yes I have tried the help file, before anyone asks!

1. Has anyone ever recorded a track and then you decide you want to record over it, but CEP plays back the track you are recording over?? I hate that, anyone know how to not have it play back. I mean it is on the same track but as you record over it it plays back the old audio that is getting overwritten.

2. When punching in I wish it didn't start a new file everytime. That is sooooo annoying. Anyone know how to stop this?

3. I wish you could just delete entire tracks. For example. Lets say I have a scratch guitar track that I am recording drums to on track one. When I get done recording I want to simply delete the ENTIRE track so that my first track of drums would be track 1. It won't do it. So then I would have to shift the settings of each track up one by one.

4. I wish when you hit save all, that it would just save all files automatically without you have to click "ok" everytime.

Thats all for now
Beez

 

[0-T]

1. Just click m (mute) on the tracks you don't want to play back.

2. No idea... never bothered me.

3. Yeah, this is probably the main feature I wish CEP had. Adding tracks would nice too.

4. Can't you select "Yes to All"?

 

[mjbee]

Re: Re: My newest CEP gripes/questions

3. Yeah, this is probably the main feature I wish CEP had. Adding tracks would nice too.

Just Checking ...

In CEP1.2/1.2a you can indeed add and remove tracks.

CEP2.0 took this away for reasons which most Syntrillium forum members think of as bogus

It is likely it will come back in CEP2.1, which is being beta'd now.

What version?

In 1.2a, you can "add" a track between others by dragging up one of the empties from lower down. You need to left-click in the area to the left of the track where the name is, and drag, dropping it between others. This is not strongly documented, or even widely known, it seems.

Removal is similar: Drag it down the bottom out of the way and mute it. If you want rid of the waves, right click in the track, and "select all waves in track". Then right click any one of the blocks and "Remove block" ... or "Destroy waves" but be careful what may also drop out (if you've been sharing blocks around!)

Don't waste time dragging all the blocks and then manually copying the settings, because it will drive you nutz.

Mike.

 

[gartulan]

My problem isn't playback--I like to monitor what I am recording over....

I record track one
I record track two
track 3= one +2 when I just want track two alone and mix them later

???

 

[Beezoboy]

Wow O-T. Mute the track. What purely simple and ingenius solution. Why I never thought about that is beyond me. I think it has to do with working with mixing boards. On an analog board when a channel is muted nothing gets in or out.

4. I wish when you hit save all, that it would just save all files automatically without you have to click "ok" everytime.
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4. Can't you select "Yes to All"?

What I meant is after hitting yes to all it still makes you hit ok. Grrr. Your help is very much appreciated.

Beez

 

[Garth]

punching in

I have the same problem with punching in. At first the program would record wherever I told it to. Now, for some odd reason, it decides to start at the beginning of the track to record everytime.

I'm trying to figure out how to change this because I like to record takes of the same song on the same track. Now, whenever I want to keep a take and start a new one without recording over the first one I have to move all the tracks down... really annoying. Anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

 

[Beezoboy]

Garth you can just resect a new punch in point. In essence you'll be punching in at a new place. Punching in with CEP2 can get really screwy!!

Beezoboy

 

[0-T]

Re: Re: Re: My newest CEP gripes/questions

Just Checking ...

In CEP1.2/1.2a you can indeed add and remove tracks.

CEP2.0 took this away for reasons which most Syntrillium forum members think of as bogus

It is likely it will come back in CEP2.1, which is being beta'd now.

What version?

In 1.2a, you can "add" a track between others by dragging up one of the empties from lower down. You need to left-click in the area to the left of the track where the name is, and drag, dropping it between others. This is not strongly documented, or even widely known, it seems.

Removal is similar: Drag it down the bottom out of the way and mute it. If you want rid of the waves, right click in the track, and "select all waves in track". Then right click any one of the blocks and "Remove block" ... or "Destroy waves" but be careful what may also drop out (if you've been sharing blocks around!)

Don't waste time dragging all the blocks and then manually copying the settings, because it will drive you nutz.

Mike.

damn, this is like learning some secret video game tip. thanks

oh, it's right click btw...

 

[mjbee]

Re: Re: Re: Re: My newest CEP gripes/questions

damn, this is like learning some secret video game tip. thanks

oh, it's right click btw...

Is it? Oh bugger. I can never 100% remember what's left/right/ctrl/shift click until I'm in front of the thing and using it.

Mike.

 

[Garth]

I found a solution to my problem. You have to click the loop button then record in order to start recording from a location other than the start of the track.

I suppose I must have been talking about something other than punching in cause I think you're talking about another thing. Thanks anyway though.