Question for hardcore Beat Detectivers

[dcrann11]

Quite comfortable with it BUT - one problem I always seem to have is deciding when to consolidate.

Do you consolidate as you go?

If I wait until the entire track is complete (sometimes 15 drums tracks) my computer chokes on all the fades it has to read.

Simple enough question I suppose but I am just wondering if I am missing any obvious tricks.

Many thanks

Darrin

[Stig Eliassen]

Start off by duplicating all drum tracks for safety, and then BD section-by-section on the dups. Consolidate a section when you're done with it, and move on to the next. Works great for me.

[dcrann11]

thanks for the reply

Sounds like the best way - I suppose if there are missed errors on the cosolidation you have the dupped tracks to fix it afterwards
- just always hated committing to edited tracks on the fly

[Drew Mazurek]

I use Save As......

one for tracking---original session
one labeled BD-----all cut up
and finally one labeled Cons-----flattened and all unused regions removed.

This keeps everything safe and now with Region Groups it's very easy to go back, make a fix, and get it into the current session.

[Vaporhead]

I do it exactly the same as Drew. Even use the same labels for the sessions.

[Tweakhead]

Playlists.

[Drew Mazurek]

Playlists.

Don't do anything to shrink the session size (sometimes 5mb or more) thereby increasing open, close, and autosave times.

[Kenny Gioia]

Yeah. In order to make your session load quicker and react faster, it's best to get all that stuff out of your session.

Rename and remove those files (not delete) from the session.

My computer actually runs quick enuff that I don't need to consolidate until the end. Otherwise, I would also consolidate as I go.

I rename the session "Song Name - Drums" before I consolidate.

Then I consolidate and remove all the extra takes and little pieces (fades etc.)

Then I rename again and move on. Your sessions will load a lot quicker this way.

Good luck.

[Tweakhead]

Don't do anything to shrink the session size (sometimes 5mb or more) thereby increasing open, close, and autosave times.

Irrelevant to his actual question.

[dcrann11]

Some great info here -many thanks