Bringing multiple files to a single track

[sburgess]

Colleagues-

I was wondering if there was a way to drag a bunch of files onto a single track. When I drag on a bunch of files, it puts them each on a different track. Any ideas?

-Scott

[smashannon]

Drag em in, bounce em down.
Boom, bam, bing.

[Giulio]

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[Chris Lambrechts]

Smashannon, pleace explain ..... ???????

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Chris Lambrechts

[JKD99]

Hi Scott
Yeah, I see what you're after, and, no, I don't think it can be done. Sure would be cool, though.

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Joe Milner
Puget Sound
Los Angeles

[sidereal]

What's the big mystery?

If you want all the sound elements mixed *together* onto one track, do as smashannon says: pull 'em all onto different tracks, mix and bounce.

If, however, you want all the sound elements in succession (one after another) on a single track, import them and then pull them in one by one in shuffle mode onto a single track.

This is Pro Tools 101. Unless I'm missing your point?

[bassmac]

I think they’re looking for specific instructions on bouncing several tracks into one - and I’m sure others can explain this better than me...

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bassmac

[JKD99]

Actually, I think he's asking how, if you're dragging a bunch of audio files from the Region List into a session and you want to have them all on one track to audition them, like a scratch or work track, instead of having them all spread across the session tracks. AND, to be able to do this with one drag, instead of one by one. But maybe I'm wrong, it's been known to happen

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Joe Milner
Puget Sound
Los Angeles

[This message has been edited by JKD99 (edited November 27, 2000).]

[sburgess]

OK, OK, so I wasn't really clear. Here's the question:

I have a Tascam MX2424 that allows me to import the files it records directly into ProTools. (Way cool, eh?) In this particular case, I recorded our jazz band doing six tunes. I'm using 16 tracks, so that means 6x16=96 seperate sound files. Once they appear on the regions list, I'd like to take all the files that belong on track one and drop them into the first track on PT, and then do the same on subsequent tracks. It appears that if I drag in all the regions that belong on track one at the same time, they'll end up spread across however many tracks I've got up, rather than all going on track one.

I was able to save a little time by taking one region each from several different tracks, but it still means I can only do a few at a time.

To be totally clear, I do not want to bounce them, I want a pile of sound files:
1A 1B 1C 1D 2A 2B 2C 2D 3A 3B 3C 3D 4A 4B 4C 4D
to end up on the right tracks in PT:
Track 1: 1A 1B 1C 1D
Track 2: 2A 2B 2C 2D
Track 3: 3A 3B 3C 3D
Track 4: 4A 4B 4C 4D
But it appears that if I grab the first four and drag them over, I get:
Track 1: 1A
Track 2: 1B
Track 3: 1C
Track 4: 1D
Sure, in this example I could choose 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A, and then the Bs and Cs and Ds, and I'd get the desired result. You can see, though, that this would be unworkable with 100+ files to contend with!
(I suppose that being able to sort the list by something other than the first character would work, too...)

Am I any clearer? Thanks for the help,
Scott


[This message has been edited by sburgess (edited November 28, 2000).]

[KingTor]

crystal clear.

unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to do what you want.

frustrating, isn't it?