Take recording, unmute take?

[Leander]

Hey!

I used a tedious way of recording for years...by having a couple of tracks, recording take 1 in track 2, then take 2 in track 2, take 3 in track 3 etc. ...which required a lot of clicks (selecting new tracks, starting the playback, stopping the playback etc.).

I just stumbled upon take recording because I had a section played in a loop and recorded everything in one track...multiple takes were recorded, but they are always grayed out, even if they are there with data. How can I unmute them?

[OutrageProductions]

You may be in 'comping' mode.

Download and read the section on comping in the PDF manual starting on page 530.

[Leander]

Thanks!

No, my project is set to "overwrite". But when I select a section, add loop markers, arm a track for recording and play the section in a loop, all takes are recording in the armed track without being overwritten. I can see the different takes with wave data etc., but I cannot listen to the takes.

Switching the project settings to overdub or compting does not work either.

[David Baay]

Overwrite only applies when you restart the transport in between takes. Loop-recording in Overwrite mode is similar to Comp recording - each pass gets a new lane, and the clip in the last pass is left unmuted while all others are muted. The main difference is that the penultimate take will be entirely muted in Overwrite mode even if the final pass is only partial; in Comping mode, the un-overlapped part of the penultimate take will be split off and left unmuted so you have something sounding throughout the looped region on playback. In either case you can unmute any clip by selecting it and hitting K on your PC keyboard. Or, if you only want to hear one at a time, you can click in the bottom half of any take where the Comp tool is active which will automatically unmute that take and mute all others.

Edited October 20 by David Baay

[msmcleod]

26 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Overwrite only applies when you restart the transport in between takes. Loop-recording in Overwrite mode is similar to Comp recording - each pass gets a new lane, and the clip in the last pass is left unmuted while all others are muted. The main difference is that the penultimate take will be entirely muted in Overwrite mode even if the final pass is only partial; in Comping mode, the un-overlapped part of the penultimate take will be split off and left unmuted so you have something sounding throughout the looped region on playback. In either case you can unmute any clip by selecting it and hitting K on your PC keyboard. Or, if you only want to hear one at a time, you can click in the bottom half of any take where the Comp tool is active which will automatically unmute that take and mute all others.

Are you sure you don't mean Sound on Sound?

- Overwrite mode literally overwrites what you've previously recorded.
- Sound-on-Sound allows you to build up a track by recording several takes, whilst hearing the previous ones
- Comping records several takes while muting the previous takes, so you can quick-comp the takes choosing the best bits afterwards.

[David Baay]

1 minute ago, msmcleod said:

- Overwrite mode literally overwrites what you've previously recorded.

Only if the transport is restarted in between takes. With loop-recording, it works more like Comping; try it.

I just checked back to the last release of Sonar Platinum, and it behaved the same.

[Leander]

Thank you! I found the icon to make a take audible.

[Leander]

EDIT Found it myself, sorry! There is a "mute" box in the audio data I need to untick. Solved.

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Actually, I found it in the manual, but I cannot find it in the DAW!

The DAW did not create new tracks when recording because it was set to "one track". I moved the recorded data to different tracks, but all of them are grayed out and I don't know how to umute them/make them active.



Please help.

Edited October 21 by Leander

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Select the clip(s) and press k on your keyboard