By passing instrumental section white voice recording

[Riccoboni]

Hello,

I often record songs including an instrumental part, and I would like to skip this instrumental section when recording vocals, so as not to be distracted by the instrumental part.

I know how to do this with the arranger while playing the song , but is there a way to do this while recording ?

Thank you for your attention

[57Gregy]

Mute the instrument tracks?
I don't know anything about arranger tracks, but know that works in other views in CbB while recording.

[Riccoboni]

I want to talk about a solo part before the voice resumes 16 bars later ...

[57Gregy]

If I understand what you want now, hover the cursor over where you want to start talking. Right-click, select 'Split'. Drag the right part of the clip to the right 16 measures.

[Riccoboni]

Thank you for your answer, but precisely I wanted to avoid moving a portion of the track, and having to go back.

I was thinking of a recording option that starts from an arrangement and not complete tracks, or even an option that allows you to deactivate the reading of a selection during recording.

The idea is globally to concentrate on the part of the tracks where to record vocals, and not to listen to the rest.

[57Gregy]

I'm still not sure what you want to do. 
You have a music track.
You want to record speaking over the music track, but not hear the music while speaking. Is that close?
If so, you could use automated mute on the music track while you're speaking, or a volume envelope to lower the music track sound while you're recording the speaking part.

[Scott MacBride]

Put markers in where you want the spoken parts and then just mute the track.  While recording your spoken parts you can see the markers at the top so you know your cue.

[Riccoboni]

Hmm... I don't think we understand each other.

I don't want markers to know when to resume singing (I already have my AABA sections positioned with the arranger).

I would just like the nstrumental solo parts not to be played during the recording.

Let's imagine that these solos are played on the B section, I would like that during the recording we only hear the AAA sections.

Basically the idea would be to be able to use a cakewalk arrangement during recording

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Well the one thing you cannot do in Cakewalk is to simply "skip" over one section only to resume playback/recording at a later time

The only way around this that I can think of would be to use the arranger so that the bits you want to record vocals over are right next to each other and then move them back afterwards

[Terry Kelley]

Split the instrumental section and mute the clip. Unmute when you want it back. I do this a lot. You can always bounce to a clip to get rid of it later if you want.

Edited December 25, 2022 by Terry Kelley

[Riccoboni]

Thanks for your answer but mutating only silences the section but doesn't skip it...

[57Gregy]

I still don't understand what you're trying to do. 
You want your Cakewalk Arranger arrangement to play while recording to the non-Cakewalk Arranger Track View?

[Terry Kelley]

On 12/27/2022 at 6:56 AM, Riccoboni said:

Thanks for your answer but mutating only silences the section but doesn't skip it...

Skip? You mean jump measures or beats?

[Kalle Rantaaho]

I think your only option is to record the vocals one part/verse at a time, then move to the next one passing the instrumental parts.

[Lord Tim]

On 12/23/2022 at 8:37 PM, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Well the one thing you cannot do in Cakewalk is to simply "skip" over one section only to resume playback/recording at a later time

The only way around this that I can think of would be to use the arranger so that the bits you want to record vocals over are right next to each other and then move them back afterwards

This is the answer.

Mark your song out the way you want it to go with sections for each part, then make an arrangement in its proper state, then make another one just for recording. Switch to the recording one - it'll slice your song up and remove any sections you don't want. Record your parts. Then switch back to the original arrangement.

[Glenn Stanton]

i've been doing something similar for vocals and solos - a new arrangement for the vocal or soloing tracking, export as audio the arrangement. new recording project (so i'm not weighted down by the source project), record, comp, etc etc. export the vocals / solos. re-import into the master project and reset the arrangement to the primary one.  the extra step of another project dedicated to vocals and solos is simply due to machine limits at the moment...