Melodyne does not erase deleted clips.
When I record over part of a Melodyne take, it grays out/mutes that part of the take and the new recording becomes active above it.
Then, when I delete the old Melodyne take below it and put Melodyne on the new take segment, when I open Melodyne it still shows the deleted take along with the new take.
The only way that I know how to get rid of the old take in Melodyne is to close Cakewalk and reopen the project and only then does the old take disappear from within Melodyne.
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I played around with this and can reproduce the basic issue, but that description isn't completely accurate
What's happening is that the punch/overwrite is just slip-editing the original clip to make space for the new audio. Melodyne normally honors manual slip-editing by hiding the blobs and muting the audio in the cropped-out part of the region, but it's not getting the message when the slip-edit is done automatically by punch/overwrite. I found you can fix this by manually making a small
