Question about destructive edits?

[chadsxe]

When you’re starting to mix do you save two different files? One so you can go back to before the mix and one that you can perform you mix on. I was wondering this because a lot of people say they copy there tracks before do a destructive edit. What is the best way to keep a clean project to go back to if you mess up? At this point I have been recording in one project. Then saving that project under a new name so I have to identical projects. One to mix one to go back to.

What is meant by clone and archive?

 

[dachay2tnr]

The best approach is simply not to use any destructive edits. With each edition of Sonar, this has become easier and easier.

If you must perform a destructive edit, then cloning and archiving the track is a good idea. Just in case you decide later on that you don't like the edit for some reason.

Note: clone and archive = make a duplicate of the original track and archive one of them. Then use the other to make your edits.

 

[chadsxe]

By making a duplicate of a track do you mean copy and paste into a new track. How do you archive? Dosen't my method accomplish the same thing?

 

[dachay2tnr]

Cloning is similar to a copy and paste, but it does everything in a single step and also includes all your track settings and plugins. Track>Clone.

Your method makes a backup of the entire project. If you subsequently spend weeks tweaking the project, the backup will have none of those tweaks. By archiving a track, you can simply replace a track with the archived version while still staying in the context of the "tweaked" project.

As I said, however, the easiest approach is to avoid destructive edits. This way everything is reversible and you don't need backups (except if the entire project gets corrupted. You should be making periodic backups of your entire project for this reason.)

How do you archive?

Use your Sonar Help menu.