MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:18 am
Kniferide wrote:
One of the coolest things that it does easily is multi channel (up to 64ch) recording onto a single clip.
In the past I've just grouped the drum tracks together and it's pretty easy to edit them as a group, but this seems even easier. How do I do this? Thanks!
The setup is a little weird, so hold on tight, I'm about to get Bishop Dante AF. Once you do it you can save it as a track template.
Basically you open a track, in routing, you tell it to be a multi channel track (where it says "Parent" and "Track Channel") lets say you choose 8 channels. Then, when you arm record, and choose your input, the drop down will show "multi channel" as an option. Here you can choose any combination of stereo pairs of your IO, like say 1-8, or 2-9, etc. Now when you record, where you usually see a waveform with a single audio track in it, you will now see a single clip, with 8 waveforms in it. Now, if you have "see all takes in lane" selected, you will be able to see each punch you do in place. if you did this with individual tracks, it would be impossible to see it all on the screen. It makes edits really fast, and clean to manage. If you haven't checked out editing with multiple takes in the lane, look it up. It's great.
So, for monitoring this multi channel track on separate faders... there are 2 ways. First, make sure teh Multi Ch track does NOT feed the Master bus. Then, I create individual audio tracks for each sound source and in routing tab of the Multi CH track create pre fader, pre fx sends to the individual tracks. So I'll create Kik, Snr, OHL, OHR... etc tracks, in on the
multi channel track in the routing send ch1 to KIK, ch2 to SNR, ch3 to OHL... for each source. These tracks will not have an audio file, but will give you a fader for each source for mix/monitor. This minimizes all your drums to the real-estate of a single track, and you don't even have to see the mix fader tracks in the edit window, only the mixer if you hide them in the Track Manager. This is the easiest way to monitor the multi ch track with a mix.
Now, if you DO want to see an audio file for each source, ignore the fader set up I just walked you through and do this instead. Duplicate the multi channel track for each source. in this case, you would have 8 versions of the multichannel track in your mix window. Name them for each source, and for each channel, Right click on the audio clip, Go to Item settings, Got to "Take Channel Mode" and for each track choose which audio channel of the multi channel file you want that track to reference. When you do this you will now see a single audio wave form that corresponds to the source you want on that track.
Now for method 2.1, which is how I do it almost always. I set up my routing the first way while recording, so I only have to see a single wave form, but have a mix to monitor while recording. Then, I do all my take edits, so my drum editing is mostly complete. Then, on each source track, I will right click the record arm and choose "Record Output" and just run a record for the whole session, striping each track with it's own audio file. Then in the Track Manager, I mute and hide the Multi Ch track, keeping it if I want to make edits in the future.
This may seem like a lot, but once you set it up and save it as track templates, it takes like 60 seconds to set up and if you are doing a lot of cuts and moves on a ton of tracks at once, it makes everything super clean easy.
I know, TLDR This is fucking silly
