Orientation in large sessions

[lucienpalmer]

Originally Posted by Marsdy

I'm not sure duplicating tracks would be any faster than assigning to a VCA especially if I had to remove what gets duplicated like inserts, sends, playlist etc. in order to "zero" the channel?

I suppose it just depends how you work. For film and TV sessions, if i'm creating an additional dialog track (for example), I'd want to keep the same inserts and FX sends as the track I'm duplicating. So for me its faster than starting with a blank track.

[Marsdy]

Originally Posted by lucienpalmer

I suppose it just depends how you work. For film and TV sessions, if i'm creating an additional dialog track (for example), I'd want to keep the same inserts and FX sends as the track I'm duplicating. So for me its faster than starting with a blank track.

Right that makes sense, it's a workflow thing. In my case I'd want to add a new empty track, more often than not an instrument track.

[stefanboman]

I've played around once again with VCAs and spilling.

It is very nice! Thanks Jeff!
But like someone wrote it does takes a bit of time organizing the session.
So I still don't think it's a bad idea. And probably really easy to program.

[lucienpalmer]

One of the tricks for me is creating a 'super session' that I use as a template before I start. I have over 400 tracks, named, routed, and plugins and VCA's assigned. When I start a new session, I use this template and just delete the tracks that don't apply to the project I'm working on. I find deleting tracks faster than creating new ones.