Multi-Track Work Flow...

jmpatrick wrote on 4/15/2008, 6:06 PM
I'm about to start my band's third CD. I've used Vegas for the last two, and will for this one also (V8). I'm currently using the same machine that I've had for several years and needless to say, it's a bit slower than the latest greatest. It's a Dual P3 (1 GIG CPU's) with 1 GIG of RAM. I'm wondering if anyone here uses nested timelines for multi-track audio stuff. I'm thinking I'll need 12-16 tracks for the drums, 4-6 for guitars, a couple for bass, and another 4-6 for vocals. Is it practical to keep the drums on a separate VEG and use nesting to lower the track count, or would it be too much of a hassle going back and forth to tweak the drum mix?

Thoughts anyone?

jp

Comments

jbolley wrote on 4/16/2008, 8:24 AM
Interesting thought. I've never tried working that way except for some mastering work.
It seems that muting tracks frees the dsp, in the past when I've "hit the wall" I would mute tracks to get working again then unmute for a render. You could use more busses and submix the drums then mute the source tracks - this would have the same benefit but no switching projects to tweak.

just some thoughts

Jesse
Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/16/2008, 4:08 PM
Folder tracks ...

Never could figure how these didn't make it into V8...

geoff
jmpatrick wrote on 4/16/2008, 4:21 PM
What's a folder track?
Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/18/2008, 8:57 PM
A single virtual track on the timeline that has a bunch of other tracks nested under it. Can expand out (or compact down) to acess the tracks individually, or compacted treat the folder track like a Bus.

So you could have, say, all your drums in one folder track, and an alternative drum performance in another folder track. one folder tracking can be pulled down to take up just one track-space, and the whole thing panned/levelled/effected/etc at once. The other drum folder track can be muted.

Working on vocals ? Just collapse the other parts down to folder tracks and reduce distracting clutter..

Ideally each section of a piece; drums, vocals, guitars, percusiion, sound effects, dialogue, etc can be in their own Folder Tracks - multiple tracks showing optionally as just one track. Great for reducing screen clutter, without the obliqueness of doing this with Busses.

Acid 6 already had folder tracks before V8 came out..

geoff

geoff