mix recall for vox

[charles kasler]

Can i just save my mix in mix recall before using Melodyne on vox, since it's destructive? & restore the original vox at a later time if I need, after i have closed the project? It seems easier than saving each vocal track & adding more clutter. thanks.

[57Gregy]

I would save the whole project under a new name and edit 1 or the other.

[charles kasler]

OK, does that take up much space? 

[Noel Borthwick]

Mix recall doesn't save clip data, so no you cannot use mix recall for this. You will have to save a backup of your project.

[Glenn Stanton]

one thing i've been doing lately - create a 2-track export of the main project - only what i need for the vocal performance, then create a project with that export on one track and then do all of the vocals and edits. then when i've got the vocals mostly comped etc i can then export those tracks and import into the main project. this keeps things fairly clean and then i can go back to editing the main project without overloading it with lots of additional vocal / take lanes tracks and edit-effects. reduces the overall size versus copying the entire main file (e.g. my main file might have 2.5GB of track audio, whereas the export might only be 50mb)

[Lord Tim]

^^ good idea

This is what I did for ages on my old machine purely because it didn't have the resources to do everything in the one project. I'm a little more lazy now on simple projects since my current DAW has lots of power, but stuff with heaps of vocal layers, choirs, etc, I still use this method. Great to keep things clean, and a good backup strategy in case of a rare project corruption.

[msmcleod]

What I tend to do with Melodyne clips is copy the original track, archive it, then hide it.

This means I can commit my Melodyne edits knowing I can always go back to the original if need be. I'll be honest though - I've never needed to.

[Milton Sica]

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

What I tend to do with Melodyne clips is copy the original track, archive it, then hide it.

This means I can commit my Melodyne edits knowing I can always go back to the original if need be. I'll be honest though - I've never needed to.

I do the same.

[Tim Elmore]

10 minutes ago, Milton Sica said:

I do the same.

Before using Melodyne, I copy the original clip to another take lane (in the same track) and mute that original. After applying Melodyne to the duplicate, I can easily revert to the original clip at any time, and there is no extra track.

[charles kasler]

Thanks for all the ideas!!

[Max Arwood]

Making a copy of the track and archive it is the best way. 

[57Gregy]

On 11/11/2022 at 1:36 PM, charles kasler said:

OK, does that take up much space? 

Yes. Yes it does.

[charles kasler]

Okay I made a copy of the tracks and archived and I would like to hide them. I go to console view, strips, and uncheck archived but it keeps getting rechecked. It's not a workspace issue because I have none selected and only use screen sets. What am I missing?

update, solved: i just have to right-click the track... not sure why the documentation gave me the instructions above?

Edited November 14, 2022 by charles kasler
updated info

[57Gregy]

"H" on the computer keyboard brings up the Track Manager, from which you can show/hide any track or bus. 

[charles kasler]

Got it thank you!

[57Gregy]

Also, the manager for Track view and Console view are different; you could have track 6 and 7 hidden in TV but not in Console, for example.

[Max Arwood]

On 11/12/2022 at 4:11 PM, Glenn Stanton said:

one thing i've been doing lately - create a 2-track export of the main project - only what i need for the vocal performance, then create a project with that export on one track and then do all of the vocals and edits. then when i've got the vocals mostly comped etc i can then export those tracks and import into the main project. this keeps things fairly clean and then i can go back to editing the main project without overloading it with lots of additional vocal / take lanes tracks and edit-effects. reduces the overall size versus copying the entire main file (e.g. my main file might have 2.5GB of track audio, whereas the export might only be 50mb)

I have done this with percussion tracks too. It gives you that extra horsepower you need to do some quick editing. I always wanted a way to freeze buses to free resources too. It would help under powered computers to keep that snappy response by lowering cpu and disk access. 

[Glenn Stanton]

^^^^

yeah, my laptop is not very powerful so when using effects or VI i like to limit them and just take "completed" audio over. makes the overall mix process lighter. so i'll setup my MIDI-only tracks in its own "record template", tweak, and then export the audio tracks. then import into my "mix template". essentially, following the same mix process is if a client sent me a bunch of tracks...