LE equivalents of Audition clip (region) grouping functions?
I'm making the switch from Audition and there is a key workflow I can't seem to find an equivalent for. I record solo guitar with three mikes, each assigned to a track. In editing the mix, I will often want to slice a segment of audio - across all three tracks, of course - and splice it in to replace something elsewhere in the song. In doing that I'm basically breaking my original tracks into multiple regions, grouping them across three tracks, and manipulating each as a unit.
The best and safest way to do this in Audition is to group the clips/regions "vertically" (i.e., across tracks), do your edits, then join up the resulting regions "horizontally" (i.e., link region 1 to region 2 on track one and do the same on tracks 2 and 3). You've then created a solid splice that is the same across all tracks.
I see that in Logic you can select the three tracks and use scissors to slice and splice. But once you've done that, is there any way to lock in those splice points without bouncing to a new audio file? There are times when I change my mind and want to decouple regions that I coupled; or I may want to tweak the crossfade later by nudging the regions in a little closer. In Audition it's easy because all I have to do is break the grouping, do the edits, and regroup them to secure them in place. And of course I want to do it identically across all three tracks, just to up the ante!
I can't see for the life of me how to do something equivalent in Logic. There must be a way...other than creating a new audio file to reflect the joined clip. That limits your flexibility later, as described above, and even on a new iMac with 4 gb it takes 15 seconds or more to bounce the three tracks and recreate the preview waveforms. That slows me down a lot if I am doing this many times per session.
What am I missing here? I accept that each DAW has its own workflow assumptions but I just can't believe that what I'm trying to do isn't a common application.
Thanks in advance -
zp
The best and safest way to do this in Audition is to group the clips/regions "vertically" (i.e., across tracks), do your edits, then join up the resulting regions "horizontally" (i.e., link region 1 to region 2 on track one and do the same on tracks 2 and 3). You've then created a solid splice that is the same across all tracks.
I see that in Logic you can select the three tracks and use scissors to slice and splice. But once you've done that, is there any way to lock in those splice points without bouncing to a new audio file? There are times when I change my mind and want to decouple regions that I coupled; or I may want to tweak the crossfade later by nudging the regions in a little closer. In Audition it's easy because all I have to do is break the grouping, do the edits, and regroup them to secure them in place. And of course I want to do it identically across all three tracks, just to up the ante!
I can't see for the life of me how to do something equivalent in Logic. There must be a way...other than creating a new audio file to reflect the joined clip. That limits your flexibility later, as described above, and even on a new iMac with 4 gb it takes 15 seconds or more to bounce the three tracks and recreate the preview waveforms. That slows me down a lot if I am doing this many times per session.
What am I missing here? I accept that each DAW has its own workflow assumptions but I just can't believe that what I'm trying to do isn't a common application.
Thanks in advance -
zp
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)