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Old 10-16-2004, 11:45 PM
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How do I paste a portion of audio onto an existing region, and have the overlapping parts of each play at the same time? The manual says that I must do this in slip mode, but when I do, the pasted audio does not merge or blend at the overlapping point, but it replaces the existing region.
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Old 10-16-2004, 11:55 PM
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Either place it on 2 separate tracks.. or use a crossfade.

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Old 10-17-2004, 12:08 AM
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Thanks for your response. Well first of all, crossfades don't apply to overlapping regions, but to regions of audio that are following each other. You would use a crossfade to keep the volumes steady as it switches from one region to the next.
I am in fact already using your advice on utilizing another track as a work around. But I stack a lot of vocal parts to create full harmonies (up to about 6 or 8 on some songs). This is causing me to have to run up my track count.
I'm sure that there is a way to overlap on the same track. I've just gotta find it.
Anyone else?
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Old 10-17-2004, 12:19 AM
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A crossfade will play overlapping regions.. that's the very definition of a CROSS-fade. Place the regions so that the start and end of audio you want to share is butted up to each other.. select the area in the track.. and enter Control+F and change the Fade curve.

Say you have regions:

xxxxxxxxxxxx
yyyyyyyyyyyy

put them on the same track:

xxxxxxx|yyyyyyy

Crossfade:

xxx[zzz|zzz]yyy

The area Z above will play audio from both regions X and Y.

If you want more control than that - you'll have to use multiple tracks. Pro Tools is designed to emulate a tape system.. and no 2 pieces of audio can share the same time continuum on the same track (without a crossfade). If you need more tracks, then start sub-grouping or upgrade to a TDM system.

For doing stacked vocals.. create a "Work session" with a work mix broken up into 5 tracks.. this will give you 27 tracks for vocals.. after recording your vocals.. do a stereo background mix.. and import that into your original session.. or start using the disable track functionality in Pro Tools 6.x

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Old 10-17-2004, 12:24 AM
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Morris: take note: Rail is rarely wrong about how to use ProTools.
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Yes, I think I'd probably listen ti the guy with over 8000 posts, as opposed to the guy with 4. But hey...that's just me.

The solution you may be looking for Morris: use multiple tracks...then bounce the multiples down to a single. I often do this if I have 6-8 stacked choral voices.
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Yes, I think I'd probably listen ti the guy with over 8000 posts, as opposed to the guy with 4. But hey...that's just me.

8000+ posts can also mean, that he is just simply...old.. ,like me...but I only have 2500.. . And I don't know anything about Protools. I'm only here for the free drinks at the Bar !!


>>morris_the_cat
If I may...your best way to do a large number of vocal edits would be to create a stereo submix of the backing tracks, import them into a new "vox works" session and use all the available voices to chop/replace/process/premix the final vocal performance. Import that back into the original session.
Way more flexible than a bunch of xfades...

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Old 10-17-2004, 11:42 PM
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Yeah, that's another work around that I'm currently using as well. And I'd like to thank all of you for your input.
But, is there a way to do this on the same track without using all these work arounds? Does anyone know? Hit me back guys! Thanks again.
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Old 10-17-2004, 11:54 PM
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Thanks Rail. Just viewed your reply. I think you might be the guy that can help me with this. By the way, ignore the post I just did (it was before i saw your reply). I guess I would need a step by step on hw to do that. because like I said, when I place one region overlapping the back end of another, it erases the preexisting region. So, are you saying that I could then do a crossfade and hear both pieces of audio within the overlapped portion? Let me know guy. Thanks again!

I know I can do the workarounds without a problem, but I'd like to save time if i can.
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Oh, and one more thing...I love this forum! I can see myself on here a lot. Until tommorrow.
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