Organising wav's...grrr

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One thing that has me very confused is how cool edit handles the wav's. As in, say i have a vocal track..and i do a take and it sucks..so i click on it, delete it, then try again. Sometimes i might 40 takes. I see over to the left all the wav's are there. If i click save session, then if its a new wav it asks me where to put it..if not just saves. Then when i close down it asks me about what im guessing is all my other takes...which gets me scared to answer 'no' too so i say save..then some are called the same thing so then i get asked if to overwrite or not!

This part craps the shit out of me...whats so hard about saving whatevers ACTUALLY in the friggin song, and getting rid of the crapola i deleted...

Any tips on how to have a clean 'session' would be much appreciated..i now have a hardrive full of wav's that arent even in the song!

Thanks guyys
 
right click

right click the wave and go down to destroy block (remove and close) itll ask you if you want to save it say no i had the same problem if you do this on every bad take itll save a lot of time
 
Or use the function ment to clean: "Close only non-session waveforms". This will close all the waveforms not used in the multitrack view, and you can press "No To All" when you are asked to save.

I don't see the point why these files have to be "killed" intead of directly deleted. If they were in broadcast format maybe, but they are not.

To clean up the already-saved waves you can use this method (I assume you have one folder for each song...?):
-Open the session
-Press "Save Session as..."
-Create a new folder for the session
-Select "Save copies of all associated files"
-Delete the old folder

Per-Otto
 
great tips so far.
i find it helpful to name all the tracks i'll be using to record before i start recording so the file names are a little clearer
 
If I'm doing something like a vocal, where it's probably going to be comp'd from several takes, I record it kinda' on 2 tracks...for example...tracks 9 & 10. I'll record on track 9 until I screw up, then arm track 10 and unarm track 9 and pick up the recording where I left off...so at the end of the song, I have 2 tracks with parts of the vocal on each one.

Then, highlight tracks 9 and 10, and choose "Mixdown (selected waves) to empty track ____ " in the edit menu.

Now you have one track with all of the stuff on tracks 9 and 10 AND it's lined up properly - and you can just delete all the takes on tracks 9 and 10, ...

...then do the "close all non-session files" (to close all those bits and parts that you deleted from tracks 9 & 10) and all those fuckers are gone. Then save your vocal track and you've just freed up a lot of memory, and you have your vocal track named, lol.
 
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