Please help me!

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dammit...

i recorded a track at the end of a song, and then i needed to record something at the beginning, so i used the same track as the one i had used previously. (in other words, there were some vocals at the end of track 11, and i wanted to record some more vocals at the beginning of track 11

well, instead of recording at the beginning of track 11, it recorded OVER TOP OF THE END OF MOTHERFUCKING TRACK 11!!

undo doesn't help any, and as it appears, i've permanently lost a really good track. is there any way to get it back? it was one of those one-in-a-million takes. i haven't turned off my computer in 2 days just because of this. i'm at the end of my rope.




thanks for anything
 
LOL - You're at ease, now, right Brad?

You have a sense of humor, so....

Actually, I think it depends on whether you've enabled the "delete old takes" option. Check it and then come back. It's there, and it's in the session file; it's just a matter of accessing it. (I assume you know this much, which is why you haven't killed the session yet).

In all honesty, when it has happened to me, I've had to re-record. Just like on a 4-track when you forget to turn an armed track to "safe." But then again, I've never had a "once in a lifetime" take, so I haven't really tried that hard. The answer's easy if you've saved the take at some point (just close that .wav w/o saving changes); b/c everything done to a .wav file in multi-track mode is "virtual" editing.

I know you know all this -- I assume you hadn't saved the take at any point, correct?

I'll check Syntrillium.com, b/c I secretly worship you.
 
You know how people are always saying that they wish some aspects of digital recording were more like analog?

Well you've discovered an instance where they are IDENTICAL.

This is just from the help file.
Allow Multiple Takes (Wave Block Only)
If a single wave block is highlighted, this command will appear on the Multitrack View’s Edit menu. When you enable this option by clicking on its menu command (causing a check mark to appear next to its name), a Take History is preserved for the selected waveform in the event that it’s recorded over. Material is not overwritten when recording into an existing waveform block. Instead, a new instance, or “take”, of the block is created and recorded into, preserving the previous waveform.

The highlighted language tends to make me think that your take is gone.
I have the "multiple take" thing disabled, b/c it just takes up too damned much drive space. I'm pretty sure you do too.

Sorry man. No help here.
 
damn. thanks for the help

i thought probably that if cool edit was gonna save the take, it would show up in the organizer window. and sinceit wasn't there, i started freaking out. oh well. the whole song is ruined now.

it's so stupid that's a default setting.

there are so many things i've found over the past few years using cool edit that i'd wish they'd do differently. simple things, especially, that seem like they would take a programmer 5 seconds to implement. he could even implement them in between episodes of spongebob squarepants

my brain is fried. oh well. thanks for the help.

and you should look into recording some once-in-a-lifetime takes. i highly recommend them. plus you never responeded to my email

and i just saw a movie called love liza and i recommend that too.
 
Dunno if your computer's still on, and dunno if this dumb move would work, but...

The new track that you recorded on top of the other one: can you just click and drag it down to a new position in Multitrack?
 
cat-eggs said:
plus you never responeded to my email
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I know you're a jackass...I mean 'joking,' lol...but I actually did respond to your Skydaddy mailer a couple of days ago. You seemed bummed, so I tried to make it worse.

:D :D :D
 
dobro said:
Dunno if your computer's still on, and dunno if this dumb move would work, but...

The new track that you recorded on top of the other one: can you just click and drag it down to a new position in Multitrack?
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Actually, he recorded "into" a block, I believe. See Dobro, you wouldn't know about this, b/c you're talented enough to do everything in one take...but people like cat-eggs and myself have to "cheat" sometimes by doing a part (or part of a part) over, lol. :D :D

BTW- I know this is too little to late cat-eggs, but after losing some takes this way, I've gotten pretty adamant about doing any and all "punch-ins" on a totally seperate track, then just locking them in time and dragging them up into their place. With all the tracks available, I just can't justify having any maroon colored tracks in my multisession at all. Also, you don't have to jack around with "disarming" tracks.

Anyway...you probably know that too. Sorry man.
 
Last Thing:

(for anybody else)

For some reason, CEP is set up so that if you record at the END of a track, and you leave that block there, you cannot record anything BEFORE that block on the same track. In other words, you'd have to physically move what you recorded at the end of track 11 to a different track before ANYTHING would record earlier on the track...

Which makes me wonder...did you put the cursor back at the beginning of the track? Because if you DID, then it didn't record over the end of track 11 at all...it just scrolled from wherever you put the cursor. It wouldn't record over your previous take until it scrolled all the way to the end of the track where your other vocal block started.

so this may sound dumb, but did you LISTEN to what's at the end of track 11?
 
"For some reason, CEP is set up so that if you record at the END of a track, and you leave that block there, you cannot record anything BEFORE that block on the same track. In other words, you'd have to physically move what you recorded at the end of track 11 to a different track before ANYTHING would record earlier on the track..."


that officially explains why i didn't get a new track where i wanted it, but instead of scrolling to the end of track 11's contents, it recorded directly OVER track 11's contents. which is TOTALLY retarded. i'm sure the cursor was at the beginning of the track, and i did listened to it (the end part) after i ruined it, and it was the new track instead of the old one.

but anyway.... i closed the session and everything's gone now. so, thanks for the informative, if not entirely depressing information.

and thanks for giving it a shot, dobro.
 
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