Can you copy a region from one GB song to another?

Yes, you can copy regions to another song, midi or audio. They might sound different, since they adjust to the new tempo.

Your error message must have a different reason. Is the Recording#xx.aif file still there (in the original file)?

As you may have already guessed, a -43 is a File Not Found/Target Not Found error.

You're leaving out a lot of details about what else you've done, but perhaps a little background will help you understand what you may have done.

First, Yes, you can copy a region between songs (I do this VERY often). However when you paste the region into anotehr file, that's all you're pasting. The Region.

The actual recording still resides in the project you copied from. If you move or delete the original file, or even the region, you will have the equivelent of an alias in Finder pointing to nothing... -43

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-(>

Ht, can this be avoided by using Save As Archive to actually put that recording into the file?

Yes, Save As Archive saves all the pieces into a single package. When I'm done (Typically 3 working files) I use the Archive MenuItem to consolidate everything.

If you like being safe, and want to protect your work, then I would suggest doing this as soon as you're done with the Paste and work in the new File. This is a smart thing to do, so of course I don't. --Hang %-)>

And before someone asks why I don't do it immediately, it's because I'm not very smart, and because my workflow uses lots of copying between files over an extended period of time ... and while 1.5TB of storage, in theory, sounds almost infinite, it isn't, and I keep all iterations as I progress through mixes and recordings. I just try to cut down a wee bit on the storage and backup requirments (I actually found a GB song that is 7.9GB. Geeze), so I roll the dice and hold on till all the recordings of a project are done before I do the archive.

Not the brightest thing to do, but I sometimes don't wear a belt either.

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] %-)>

Your work flow is interesting. I've never done that before. I do have several archives at various point along the way, but I have so far, never pasted from one to another. In LE7, you can set it to auto backup the last several saves. I haven't needed to use it yet, but I have it set for the last 3. I think you can go a lot more than that. It just saves the file, and shares the same media folder, so I suppose it isn't that big of a file. I wonder if one could do something like that manually in GB? Where you keep one media folder, and have a few backup song files in there? It would probably confuse GB, I guess, since it wouldn't know which to use. In LE, there isn't a package, but rather a song folder with all of the contents in plain view.

Your work flow is interesting.

I'm forced into it due to time and hardware. For those that don't know, I use a very wee machine (an 800Mc iBook) for recording. This places limits on what I can do.

Since recording sessions are only about 2 hours/once a week, when we're lucky, finishing a song is spread out over 2 or three weeks. This means that I'd need to sit on my hands until the song is done, because adding effects/compression/etc would be too much for the wee machine when I went to record next.

As an example, the current song is, at the moment, 44 tracks ("gasp", eh?). All kinds of effects used on most of the tracks, and my desktop plays it fine, with no tracks locked.

But there's still recording to do. So in this case I have two working files, the raw recording file, and the file I'm actually mixing. The Raw file has a much lower track count (probably in the 20s) and no processor pounding effects (not even the 2 MIDI Bass tracks that are in my mixing file)

When we do the lead guitar tracks I'll copy the regions over. If there are no further recordings to be made, then I'll finally do an archive and continue work on the new file. --Hang B-)>

I suppose then, you sometimes have to copy something into your working file to interact with?

You mean something back into the raw unmixed file? I could, like having the bass in there would be nice, but I prefer to make Joe suffer.

All he really needs are the drum tracks for his rhythm tracks, and then both of the above for his lead tracks. I play air bass for him, he gets to live with that.

The bass is the only thing that's truly missing from the raw file (I do that on the Mixed file), everything else is just the fancy stuph (stereo effects, doubled tracks, all that other stuph). When I add the vocals (usually I do that on my time before we do the leads), that again is done in the raw project and then copied over, so he really does get everything except the bass, and the "way cooler" sounding mix. --Hang B-)>

Poor Joe 😟 You do make him suffer, don't you?