Using Bundles in new Projects

[Stephen Jones]

Hi everybody.
I have a querie, and I think the best way to ask it is to give a hypothetical (which in my case isn't so hypothetical).
Let's say you're recording a song with 3 audio tracks. You do 2 takes and you go with the second one, and back up the first take by using the bundle option so you can get it off your hard drive. Let's say after some time you realize that the intro of the 1st take was much better, and you want to paste it onto the 2nd take and go from there. My question is, is there any way to do this without adding the whole bundled wave file of the first take onto the second take's audio files (ie - in the WaveData Folder)? Seems like a lot of added memory for nothing.
I am using Cakewalk 8.04 - is this scenario brighter for the later versions of Cakewalk?
If this didn't make much sense let me know and I'll rephrase it.
Mucho thanks,
steve

 

[mixsit]

I think you would have to open both the wrk' and the bun', select the section you want, and copy/paste it to the work's track.
That would be my best guess.
cheers

 

[Stephen Jones]

Thanks for replying. What I'm wondering is, is there any way to allow the second take you're working to NOT add the full bundled WAV file from the 1st take to its associated files - ie maybe only add the section that you are copying (the intro). See, when you finish completing the second take and finish with overdubs etc, and then you backup THAT take to a bundle, not only will you have all the WAV files that you've used for the second take, but you'll also have the full WAV files for the 3 tracks of the 1st take (as opposed to just the intro). I'm guessing this could get really sticky when taking maximum memory of the backup drive into account (ie - only 700MB on a CDR).
Know what I'm sayin? Any advice?
Thanks,
steve

 

[mixsit]

So you want to do a 'work in progress' bun back up, but only have it up date the changed data? I've heard of back up softwate that only rewrites the changes, don't know if cake can do that. You can always just toss the 'old' bun(s).
One thing I kept screwing up is after saving a bun, continuing to make edits, then realizing I'm working on the (now open) bun file instead of switching back to the original. oops!
see ya.