Moving Audio Tracks !

Hi,
I decided that after listening to a track I've recorded, no vox yet, that the third chorus(I doubled it up) should really have
just been the eight bars rather than sixteen, how easy is it to split the tracks, take out the eight bars and then join it together
again, I've tried a couple of times and the timing is out on the drums,or the bass. Any ideas !!!!
 
 
Thanks
John

You can't just cut out a section of a track in a multi track project without losing sync and timing of the other tracks.
 
 

True, if he is. But he is saying it is losing sync. We need more information.

The best way to describe it, I have a song with about twenty tracks, all audio, all the same tempo, they are in folders, drums (10)
bass (2) keys (8) if I try and split, for example the drums, at the point where the chorus doubles, moving the smart tool cursor to the right, to delete the rest of the chorus, then pick up the drums from the start of the next verse and slide the audio back to the left to try and join it up with the other audio from where I split it, will this work ?
 
John

jwh
The best way to describe it, I have a song with about twenty tracks, all audio, all the same tempo, they are in folders, drums (10)
bass (2) keys (8) if I try and split, for example the drums, at the point where the chorus doubles, moving the smart tool cursor to the right, to delete the rest of the chorus, then pick up the drums from the start of the next verse and slide the audio back to the left to try and join it up with the other audio from where I split it, will this work ?
 
John

Make sure all your tracks are visible. Ctrl + A to select them all.
 
Now do a bounce to clip on everything so that each track is one long contiguous clip
 
Position the Now Time cursor EXACTLY at the point you want to cut FROM.
 
Hit 'S'
 
Now position the Now Time EXACTLY where you want to cut TO. Hit 'S'
 
Now can delete all the little snippets of the chorus that you don't want. (before you do, hit ctrl + shift + A to select none. You don't want to just hit the delete key and half of your song disappears!)
 
LOCK all of the tracks to the left of the split point, for both Position & Data
Then slide all of the other tracks back to your first block.
 
It helps if your splits are performed exactly at a time division that you can snap to, but it should work
 
 

think it's : hit Ctrl-A to select all tracks, turn on 'snap to grid' and choose 1/1.
then in timeline bar on top project with mouse select the measures you want to delete (by dragging in the timeline bar).
this select all you want to delete.
then hit 'delete' on keyboard.
(then select in timebar all you need to slide back, click on 1 clip to drag them back...)
 
good luck

I didn't see above anywhere that your song was recorded with a metronome or not. That of course would make a huge difference. Are there tempo changes? If it was recorded with a metronome and there are no tempo changes, then what I also do as a double check before moving copying is:
..select the audio--say your kick for example that you want to move.
..in the inspector under track (choices are track/clip/prochan) jot down the location where the kick begins. You might want to toggle back and forth between clip and track so that it refreshes to make sure you are dealing with the right clip.
..move the tracks to desired location and check if the kick is in the same position in the measure, but of course different measure.