A few extra tips you and others might find helpful:
GregGraves
- To cut all the takes into phrases (if you want to stitch a new take together from pieces of several takes), drag the comp tool over the phrases to be isolated. Each phrase in EVERY LANE will get separated by a Cut where you started to drag, and where you stopped dragging ... on whatever lane you are dragging over. (If you screw up, “heal” all the takes as in step above.)
Other options to correct screw-ups:
- Drag-move split points that start/end just slightly in the wrong place.
- Ctrl+Z or go to Edit > History to step back only as far as necessary.
- Select two or more adjacent clips, and Ctrl-click with the Comp tool to heal them.
- Hit Play and Click the takes (or phrases within takes) with the smart tool or comp tool to audition.
Try Speed Comping (Shift+Spacebar to loop the first segment, then arrow up/down/right/left to audition different takes/segments, and Enter to make a clip active.
- HOUSEKEEPING: If there are multiple comp-areas in one track (i.e., multiple loops you set up in one track), there will be multiple comp-lanes. Drag the contents of all the “Comp” lanes in the track to the top Comp lane. Comp lanes below the top Comp lane will auto-mute and otherwise cause problems.
Try housekeeping before beginning comping/flattening. Select all the clips in a later comping section and Shift+drag them to occupy the lower lanes (assuming they don't overlap an earlier comping section). Then Remove Empty Take Lanes.
- Click the track’s Expand/collapse Take Lanes button to hide all the Comp and Take Lanes.
Shift+T to toggle take lanes when the button's not showing.