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antonio Posts: 8	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:50 am  I have a small sound block on a track (multitrack session)at the end of a song, the whole track before the block is empty but I'm unable to record there...why? antonio
Bobbsy Location: United Kingdom Posts: 327	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:14 am  I fear that's just the way it works. I assume it's a safety feature to prevent you accidentally recording over the later block if you forget to hit stop. Workround if you're desperate to use up the space on that track: Create a block of silence (or anything else you like) which is long enough to fill the space you want to record in then do your recording as a Punch in. Bob
mjb Posts: 167	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:26 am  Bobbsy wrote: I fear that's just the way it works Alternative workaround (to stop this happening) is what I do :- Use a "scratch track" to record into, and drag audio across. That is, I'll call a track "Guitar01" (over on the left), and the one under it also "Guitar01". Enable the lower one for recording. Record some stuff. If it's no good, destroy wave. If it's good, lock it in time, and pull the block upward one track. Or just part of the block ... Then I can go anywhere I like (earlier, later) on the lower track -- it's empty -- and then record again. Repeat for subsequent tracks: at the end you have 1 spare track still to rename to "Spare" or something.
antonio Posts: 8	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:46 am  Thanks mjb and Bobbsy for reply...so there's no straight way to do it? antonio
Graeme Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:30 pm  antonio wrote: Thanks mjb and Bobbsy for reply...so there's no straight way to do it? Simple answer - no! If you check the forum archive, you'll find a discussion about this very subject a couple o months ago. _________________ Graeme Don't forget to join the new CEP forum at audiomastersforum
SteveG Location: United Kingdom Posts: 6695	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 3:51 pm  Quote: I fear that's just the way it works. I assume it's a safety feature to prevent you accidentally recording over the later block if you forget to hit stop. Possibly... although there's perhaps a little perversity in the logic here. I can't see any reason for not being able to start recording where you like on a track provided that 'allow multiple takes' is enabled for the track. You'd have thought that logically, this might allow you to record as many takes as you want, wherever you want them. But it doesn't, so we just have to put up with it the way it is. But mjb's method works fine - since you're not trying to drag effects, etc across as well, just recording a scratch track and dragging it is the way to go, and not really much of a problem. _________________
ozpeter Location: Australia Posts: 3200	Posted - Tue Feb 25, 2003 5:26 pm  In the other recent thread I suggested setting up "E" as a keyboard shortcut for inserting an empty block, which makes it so quick to do that it's really no longer an issue. - Ozpeter
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