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tom.luft
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Comping protection

Post by tom.luft » Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:20 pm

I'm using the new comping feature a lot for recording live instruments and there is one thing that bugs me a lot:

Let's say I recorded 5 takes for a certain section of my song. I spent some time choosing the best bits and pieces and think that another take might not hurt after listening to what it sounds like.

If I record said 6th take on the same track all the comping decisions I made before are lost, as Live always sends the latest recorded take to the main track.

How can I prevent that? I want to either
  • disable Live always sending the last recorded take to the main track or
  • "freeze" or "fix" a certain section so Live won't overwrite it with the latest take
I'm hopefully missing something here, as I already lost a lot of work when I forgot to turn off arm for already comped tracks.

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Re: Comping protection

Post by tom.luft » Sat May 01, 2021 6:42 am

I did not find a fix/workaround for that, any suggestions?
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Re: Comping protection

Post by slow.robot » Sat May 01, 2021 7:56 am

without being at my computer to check to be sure, I want to say there's a way to add take lanes manually. I believe you can add a blank take lane (or if I'm wrong about that, you could erase the content of a take you know you're not going to use), and then drag the contents of the main lane (your fully-comped take) onto it. then you may want to relabel and/or change the lane color so you know that's your comped take.

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Re: Comping protection

Post by tom.luft » Sat May 01, 2021 8:52 pm

True, copying a composition to a new take lane is an option.
The origins of each part are lost then, though.
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Re: Comping protection

Post by slow.robot » Sun May 02, 2021 3:06 am

tom.luft wrote:
Sat May 01, 2021 8:52 pm
True, copying a composition to a new take lane is an option.
The origins of each part are lost then, though.
again, going from memory here, but...I think you can color and/or label your clips. if your different take lanes (the original recorded takes) all have different colors/names, I think the colors pop up into the comped main track. I would assume that if you copy them to a blank lane as described, it should retain the color coding/naming already there, so you should still be able to see where everything originated from, at least.

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Re: Comping protection

Post by slow.robot » Sun May 02, 2021 3:16 am

to clarify, I think the process would have to be like this...
-record your tracks for comping
-color code/label the take lanes and clips
-do your comping (color and labels I believe will show in final comp
-create a new blank lane
-copy comped take to blank lane (should have colors and labels corresponding to take lanes used)
-do your new recording

I think that should get you a full visual record of what you did before in case you don’t end up using the newly recorded take.

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Re: Comping protection

Post by tom.luft » Sun May 02, 2021 5:44 am

Yes, that's a neat workaround, thanks!

I'd still love a feature where I could just create a new take without loosing all previous comping. Maybe in L13 :D
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Re: Comping protection

Post by Valiumdupeuple » Sun May 02, 2021 11:13 pm

This M4L device has a shortcut made for exactly this type of situation.
It automatically pushes your current "main" lane to a new take, freeing you up for a new recording.

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