Hey guys - I did some googling and didn’t really find an answer for this question. I’m trying to comp drum tracks and struggling with lanes. I’ve got 14 tracks of drums, and i’ve moved them into a folder. I turned on group editing, and all the tracks have had the versions converted to lanes and t…

Hoping for some insight on this - it’s a basic step in pro-tools but i’m working hard with cubase so i don’t have to spend so much time in PT as i overall like the cubase environment. But editing large track count drum tracks is an important part for me.

why are you using group editing at the same time you are comping Lanes ? that would confuse even the … ok Me. I would comp the takes that need it and when finished use group editing for quantizing or whatever needs to be done.

Sounds like you didn’t enable the folder track = sign before recording the drum takes? In my experience if you do this it’s possible to comp all the tracks by opening lanes on one track - all the others follow. If however the = is not selected before recording (if you do it after recording you get…

The problem arise when you are using the Comp Tool to select sections, by dragging (drag selection)… even though you have the folder grouping on or not… This is a bug/fault in the Lanes function/system never resolved. What you have to do instead is to: Make sure you use the good old Split Tool to …

Thank you! Yes this seems to be the issue. I was using the comp tool and regardless of group editing in the folder being on or off (the = sign) - the edits were only effecting the tracks with the lanes expanded - which was a huge pain over 14 mics on the drum recording.

I’m curious is there no way to do this kind of editing WITHOUT making a folder? It seems like an unnecessary step. In pro-tools I would just group the drum tracks and edit away. I’m loving working with Cubase but it’s taking me a while to feel remotely as efficient when it comes to audio editing…

This is the whole point of the feature. You couldn’t do any comping before enabling group editing as then the tracks would no longer be in sync and it wouldn’t work. Not many people would have call to use it outside recording live instruments in a studio, but when compiling lots of takes recorde…

I always use the split tool then comp tool to comp takes with group editing enabled but it still breaks down randomly.

I find it works as long as you use scissors tool consistently on the folder track. The result is that all tracks in the folder are cut at the same place. Then comping works. I just did it. Made sure every cut that I was in folder track and it worked fine.

Cutting all works well here with the comp tool, which turns to scissors when holding alt. Cutting the whole folder works as well of course. The group editing feature works great if you make sure the files have the exact same length, which is easy to do by cutting front and end with zero crossing of…

Comping lanes over multiple tracks

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Bob_Miller February 15, 2019, 10:19am 15

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