best way to exchange audio files with another person/session

[bruce_pianoman]

Hi,
I've been helping a friend record songs by recording organ tracks for his Pro Tools sessions. Our process has been some variation of this...
1. He bounces his session to a file
2. He sends it to me via Dropbox or some Mega thing which does NOT handle folders.
3. I add his file to a session in my Pro Tools
4. I record one or more organ tracks (multiple takes)
5. At first I was then bouncing my organ tracks to individual files. It took a long time -- have to wait for the entire length of the session in real time -- and multiple passes.
5 (Alt). Then I started just sending him the audio files. Much faster, and they sounded better to me. Louder anyway.
6. And of course, he then added my files to his session. We have to be careful to keep different tracks in alignment.

Now I've run into songs where I really want to do loop recording. A tricky part was too hard to handle blasting through it once per song. The audio files you get from loop recording though are different. One file contains all the loops, strung out one after another. Is there some way he can import a loop audio file into his session and have it loop? I could bounce each organ loop track to disk, but I sure don't want to.

I'd like to somehow get -- while recording or after -- separate audio files that I could send him for each loop. the audio files wouldn't start at the begiinning of the track, but I could tell him with Minutes/seconds where they belong.

If not, does anyone have suggestions as to how to handle these looped takes? Any suggestions regarding our process would be appreciated, too. By the way, I think he always has the tracks starting at the beginning of his sessions, so even if all he sent me was the pertinent audio files along with his session file, I think I could open his session even though he might have plugins and other things I don't have, I'd still get mixable tracks, right?

My Pro Tools Preferences are set to create a new playlist on each pass of loop recording.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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iMac, Intel Core i3, 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM
OS X 10.6.8
Mbox Pro, FW800-FW400 adapter cable connection
Pro Tools 10; Upgraded to 10.3.2 April 15, 2013

[Top Jimmy]

Audio files recorded in Pro Tools are time stamped. As long as you guys were working independently from the same original session file, all the other has to do is spot the new file to the time stamp. Then, if it's a file that needs to be looped, all you would have to do is repeat it x times.


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[FajitaTone]

Try Gobbler to move/update whole sessions, and it's built in to PT10.

[scrnplyr]

Can you explain what gobbler is and how it works? This might have come in handy on some recent work we did that took a lot of time (in real time).

Thanks

[joachim]

Originally Posted by bruce_pianoman

Hi,
2. He sends it to me via Dropbox or some Mega thing which does NOT handle folders.

Why not Zipping his session and uploading the .zip (.rar) to Dropbox ?
Zipping is said to be safer for audio files to be send over the internet ( at least that is said by pros here).

[FajitaTone]

Originally Posted by scrnplyr

Can you explain what gobbler is and how it works? This might have come in handy on some recent work we did that took a lot of time (in real time).

Thanks

Go to their website www.gobbler.com

[DetroitT]

Gobbler +1
5Gb/Month free transfers.
Transfers over 2Gb work well.
However sending just new - selected tracks keeps the size down.
Cleanup, name and consolidate as you go.


(Original session) Gobble to friend.
(Friend session after dub) Save-copy selected tracks only..
(Original session V1.2) import session data
Dub some more export selected tracks and repeat as needed.

[Bruce Paine]

Originally Posted by FajitaTone

Go to their website www.gobbler.com

Click on the Tutorials tab for instructions on how to use on Mac, Windows, and Pro Tools 10 specifically.