Calling Out To THE PROS

[The Zone]

Hello O' Great and Mighty Pro Tools Know-All-ers (or something like that)

I'll get right to the point. I've got FOUR SONGS that were recorded onto a hard disc 24 track recorder. I have ran the 16 tracks I recorded (drums, guitars, vox . . . you know) into the Pro Tools sessions. Each song is a separate session.

I have EQ-ed, compressed, leveled, did all kinds of stuff to THE FIRST ONE and I would like to know if there is a way to import all the tracks to a "blank session frame" so I don't have to do all that stuff over again. The songs are very similar in arrangement. It would be great if this was a simple move.

(I saved a session under a different name with all my levels and plug ins intact, but eliminated the audio tracks)

If anybody knows of a way to pull the tracks into the blank session other than the way I've been doing it (a few at a time, and it always creates a new track, so I drag the audio to where I want it and eliminate the new track that was "just born" . . . eventually I have them all but it's a pain in the @$$ . . . any new information about this would be worth alot to me. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[ReniuR]

Just had to say I love that H. S. Thompson quote. The way you're doing it is the only way I know of offhand, but making plugin presets may help you out depending on what you need out of it.

[The Zone]

Thanks - I have successfully accomplished what I wanted to do . . . like alot of things with Pro Tools, I just had to come up with a "system" of going about it. There was no magic wand, but in the end, I wound up doing 3 hours of compressing and level chasing in about 15 minutes.

I love Pro Tools. It really is the best thing I ever bought for doing recordings, and I got a pretty good list going!! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[soundsurfr]

Zone, as far as I know, you're doing it the way it's gotta be done.

Once you get the stuff in, it's a joy, isn't it?

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[IOP Drummer]

As far as I know the fastest way is to make a new session, import tracks from the old session and then ctl shift A the audio list (to select them all) and REMOVE them from the session. DO NOT DELETE THEM!! REMOVE THEM. This gives you the track settings with no audio files in the session playlists or in the audio list. Then import your audio files for the song and shuffle each one of them to 0. Because you made a new session for each song, any newly recorded files go into that songs audio files folder. If you just perform a save as, everything you record from then on (on all 4 songs) are going into the same folder. That turns into a mess. IT's a simple process. Remember to do the remove all audio files thing before importing anything. Otherwise you might delete a song later on and not know it!!

[Phil O'Keefe]

Mixer templates that you can load from one song to another would certainly be very nice to have. Most hardware digital mixers can do this... but PT can't Short of the "solutions" listed above, I've found no way to deal with the lack of this feature. IF Digidesign added it, it would save me considerable time on "quickie" three song demo type projects.