I have a project in which I am doing some vocal comping (see attached “C6 prob 3 - Before.JPG”)
I have ended up with a blank lane (lane 3). I wish to close up this gap by moving the lower events up by a lane.
So I select the block of events in lanes 4 thru 7, bars 41 thru 50, and move them up a lane.
What happens is that some of the muted events in lane 2 (above the block I am moving) become unmuted while some unmuted events in lane 6 become muted (see “C6 Prob 3 - After.JPG”). In other words, my comp becomes scrambled. I would expect that when moving a block of events vertically in this manner that the current comp should not change at all.
It gets more inconsistent though… if I first delete the rest of the events that are after bar 55, and then try to close up the gap, the comp is preserved! (see “C6 prob 3 - after 2.JPG”) The behaviour should be the consistent, regardless of the presence of audio later on the track, IMO.
Grouping had no effect. The comp still changed when the events were moved.
“remove selected track” does indeed remove the lane without disturbing the comp (but deleting the whole lane isn’t always feasible, of course… sometimes there is data further on the same lane)
I feel your pain.
I end up using the new comp in one of two ways. For long takes I do it like it’s supposed to work, audition takes, leave everything and at the end select “advanced->delete overlaps”. But when you do a bit of cycle recording here and a bit there I want to cut out the garbage first and then do the actual comping. I tend to do this section wise, cut, delete, move, repeat on the next section and so on. Then go over everything again listening to the musicality of the remaining takes, then finally delete overlaps.
