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2016/02/15 11:29:45 (permalink)

Copy tracks to new project

I have a project with audio tracks as well as frozen synth tracks. There's something wrong with this project, I think it's corrupt somehow because it keeps shutting the audio engine on and off though it's no more complex than many other projects I have. (It was inherited from a very old project and I think some legacy garbage is stuck in there, though I couldn't find it). I'd like to start clean with a new project and copy the tracks over from the old project. How do I do this with frozen synth tracks? When I copy them they paste as Midi, not audio, and they are not connected to any synth. I can't even copy them to an audio track.
 
And while I'm on the subject, why isn't there an option to copy and paste entire tracks to a new project? If I want to copy effects do I really have to save as a track template or FX chain? Can't I just say "make a new track that is in every way like this old track including the effects, routing, panning and clips"?

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Re: Copy tracks to new project 2016/02/15 11:38:34 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Zargg71 2016/02/15 16:23:15
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Can't I just say "make a new track that is in every way like this old track including the effects, routing, panning and clips"?

 
Yes, you can...I do this all the time when creating "foolproof" backups. See the tip for Week 16 in "Friday's Tip of the Week."
 

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Re: Copy tracks to new project 2016/02/15 22:19:45 (permalink)
Craig Anderton: You're amazing!!  Like the OP I'd been looking for a way to do this.  Thanks!!

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Re: Copy tracks to new project 2016/02/16 13:33:04 (permalink)
Thanks Craig, I actually knew about that technique, and use it occasionally now (I originally learned it from your tip, btw!), but what I really want is to do a track clone across projects. 
 
I have created project templates for my most common configurations, and have made Track Templates on occasion. I suppose that's the way to do it. When I get home I'm going to see if I can multi-select a bunch of tracks and make track templates of all of them in one operation. My guess is not. My fantasy would be that when I finish a project, I can make Track Templates of everything in it, and then have an archive folder called "Track Templates for Ming Chow and Her Amazing Pekingese" and "Track Templates for The Entertainment Parade" etc. Then when I'm working on a new song I can say "I want this to sound like the accordion in Ming Chow".
 
Irrelevant digression: Yesterday I decided I needed to re-do a piece I'd written in 1998, using whatever Cakewalk version was current back then, and I thought I maybe had the old project still around. I hunted it down in the closet, found it on the CD-R, inserted it, saw all these old files with .WRK extensions and 8-character all caps filenames, then opened the appropriate one up in X3, and voila, it opened! It even played, though the instruments were all wrong of course. I just wanted to share a success story, since many of us have computer files we've saved for decades, and here was a case where I actually needed one, and I actually found it, could read it in, and made use of it! It shouldn't be something that's worth a whole paragraph, but in this day and age, it is.

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Re: Copy tracks to new project 2016/02/16 14:06:58 (permalink)
Yes... you can make elaborate track templates... multiple synths, detailed Kontakt or Falcon setups with multiple sample/synth packages, vocal tracks, busses, routings, effects and all...It is amazing... 
 
My templates continue to grow as I write songs... I have a minimal 3 vocal template, 7 vocal (2 lead, 5 harmony routed to a buss although now you can route to aux)... both with the delay and verb I always want to use, Fav omnisphere templates, Kontakt templates, and mixes of all the above with various settings... you can use a building block or massive template approach... I do both.
 
Just be sure to erase the data in each track before saving... and figure out descriptive names....
 
Have fun... once you see how amazing it is, you'll be in OMF'nG mode... (btw, you can make new templates combining smaller ones too)
 
Track Templates in Sonar is F'n awesome...
 
As to your fantasy... easy... erase all the data, highlight all the tracks, and save... Have an awesome day! Gardening time....
post edited by Vastman - 2016/02/16 14:22:30

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