Newbie LogicPro Question about cutting tracks from a long recording

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Newbie LogicPro Question about cutting tracks from a long recording

I am rapidly trying to learn LogicPro X and have a couple of long courses, but I need to do something quickly and can't locate a lesson that explains this.

I recorded a band on multiple tracks and it is a 3 hour recording on a remote hard drive. How can I cut out all the tracks of one song at a time and load it into a separate project for processing while retaining the original tracks? Step by step appreciated.

Thanks in advance

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 12, 2020 9:21 PM

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Answer 1

Eriksimon

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Jul 13, 2020 2:00 AM in response to kwbyrdman

You don't have to "cut out" anything. You can just use the all files browser (in your new project) to import those tracks. You don't even have to open the original project for that.

https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.4/#/lgcpce085447

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Eriksimon

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Jul 13, 2020 4:00 AM in response to kwbyrdman

For cutting you should use the scissors tool, or use the "split at playhead" command, which splits the selected region(s) at the position of the playhead. You can then delete the unneeded portions of the tracks.

You can select the scissors tool as a rightclick or ctrl-click tool (the third tool) here:

or as a cmd-click tool (the middle one) or as the regular leftclick tool (the left most or "first") here:

The complete recording will still be there though. If you actually want to delete the unneeded portions from your disk, there is a procedure of a few steps needed - they will not make it too easy to just delete large portions of recodings - for very good reasons (if it only needed one key command, it would be too easy to mistakenly throw something away that you may not want to throw away). So if you want to actually delete this from your disk, let me know and I will give you a step by step on how to do this.

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kwbyrdman Author

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Jul 13, 2020 8:44 PM in response to Eriksimon

Dear Eriksimon, that was fabulous. Thanks for taking the time.

Byrdman

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kwbyrdman Author

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Jul 13, 2020 3:35 AM in response to Eriksimon

Thanks Eriksimon, that will get me to a new project. Now the other part is how do I cull out all the tracks from one 2 minute song out of 3 hours of recording? I can note the start and end points on the ruler. Do I just import the whole 3 hours and then use a tool to delete what came before and after the song I need?

I'm almost there, just need the last part of how to cut the unneeded sections and fade it in and out. I'm sure this will be child's play to me a year from now but I am under a time constraint. Using version 10.4.8

Again thanks

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kwbyrdman Author

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Jul 13, 2020 4:05 AM in response to Eriksimon

Thanks for the quick reply and the visuals. Yes, if you have time, I would like the step by step to delete from the remote disc once finished. The original recording does not appear to be in regions so I will get user-friendly with the scissors tool.

Thanks so much,

Byrdman

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