From the course: Cubase Pro 10 Essential Training: Editing and Mixing

Audio comping - Cubase Tutorial

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Audio comping

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- Moving forward here in this section let's look at audio tracks and events. With this project, I'm considering adding some backing vocals that will eventually be blended far into the background. At the moment, I'm not sure what I'll record for the backing vocals so owing to this I like a method of trying out a few ideas so I can choose which events work best. To take that a stage further, I'd like a method of choosing parts of different events so I can combine the best bits of multiple recordings. Well, Cubase does provide that option in the form of something called Comping from different lanes of the same track. This will make more sense as we progress over the next two or three movies. First of all, I'll create one new audio track as opposed to creating multiple new audio tracks that I could record different parts to. So I'll right click this top track to open the menu here and choose Add Track. I need to fly out and choose Audio for the track type. And with this resulting panel, I'll name the track as R for reasons that will become obvious as we progress. I only want one new track remember so I'll leave the count set at one. To confirm that, I'll click the Add Track button. There's the track, I'll left click it to expand its height down. Over here on the timeline, I want to record the different backing vocal versions. I've set the left and right locators around the area and I could activate the cycle button if I wanted to repeatedly try different vocal ideas without repeatedly manually starting and stopping the process. As a result we now see the looped area highlighted in that sort of blueish maybe purpleish color along the ruler. Right, let's have a listen to this section before recording new audio. I'll unmute the narration first and then start playback by hitting my space bar. That's the shortcut. ♪ Run faster ♪ Actually let me restart that again with the trumpet track active too. Here goes. ♪ Run faster ♪ ♪ Stretch out those arms like a bird ♪ ♪ Run faster ♪ ♪ Run faster ♪ ♪ And one fine morning ♪ (upbeat music) Okay so that's the section I want to record new backing vocal audio to. You'll have no doubt noticed I disengaged the cycle mode. For my purposes here, I can engage or disengage it though I said earlier, it's useful to keep engaged if you want to repeatedly try ideas without manually switching on and off the record option. Anyway that's the set up. Let's pause for a moment and continue in the next movie.

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