Merging several songs into one?
My "search-fu" has failed me on this. Maybe someone knows an easy way to do this. I have a client that recorded 6 songs with me, all in their own project files. Now he has decided that he wants to combine them, along with some sound effects & additional instrumentation to make one long, Pink Floyd-ish super song.
All of the songs use the same template, and the tracks are quite simple: two tracks of acoustic guitar (neck & sound-hole), one track of vocals, one "room" or "ambience" track. Most of them are a single take, so with those I could just import the audio & align them to where he wants them. A couple are comped, so at this point I'm thinking to just bounce the tracks & import them. He wants me to mix them individually, then combine the stereo mixdowns together with the new stuff to make the "super song," but I have reservations about that. I'd like to be able to tweak the individual tracks in the "super song" because in some places we're adding strings, & other places get piano, & yet others get a little percussion, and he wants to tie some of them together with the additional instrumentation. So keeping everything separate seems smart to me, so we can tweak panning, automation, etc, as we go.
So the question is: is there a way to import or merge multiple songs? Or (since the track count is so low) should I just fly the audio files in and be done with it?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Clark
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