The scenario I’m looking for is this:
I’m comping vocals. I have 6 lanes and did a lot of comping work based on those 6 lanes.
Some time later I decided to record a few more takes to fix some imperfections. The problem is that I need to manually select again where to cut in my new takes. Can’t I automatically split my new takes in exactly the same way as the original track was split so that I can make selecting comp parts easier?
That is something I actually encountered, too, and it would be great if such a functionality was available in Cubase!
Hi,
You can Split at Cursor [ x ]. So you can iterate over the shady existing splits and split again. You could make a Macro for these steps.
@Martin.Jirsak
Split at cursor is not good enough because it requires you to manually move cursor over very specific, non regular intervals and press X 30+ times. I also don’t see how this could possibly be done with a macro since the intervals at which you have to split are never regular and depend on other tracks, but I don’t know much about macros.
Can you elaborate?
Hi,
You can jump over the Splits, for example by selecting the next event and jump to the selection start.
I still don’t get it because we are talking about new lanes in a single track. The newly recorded lanes don’t have any “sections” at all to jump over. They are 1 event. Do you mean to hide all lanes and start “re-splitting” the main track so that the splits get applied to the new single-event lanes too?
Hi,
I was thinking you record a new takes/lanes to the already existing tracks to add more takes/lanes to the existing ones.
To speed up setting the cursor position to the end of a segment
Then you can use split at cursor.
There is a way that is not fully automatic but should save you plenty of time nevertheless. It is based on Martin’s suggestion to move to events and then split there. I use the Range tool in order not to cut any events on other tracks.
I made the following macro and assigned it to a key command:
Here is my initial multi-lane recording, comped:
The track at the bottom is just there to demonstrate that the splits do not occur outside of the lanes.
In the next step I recorded additional lanes:
Then:
This method reads cumbersome but if you apply it in reality it is quiet fast and accurate. Don’t forget to turn off Grid before you use the macro.
@Johnny_Moneto Worked like a charm, thanks for the detailed explanation. Sure might not be fully automated but it is 99% there. I just hold the hotkey down for a couple of seconds and it does all the cuts fine.
Thank you, mate.
However, I found that it does not always work in my Nuendo 13. Based on your suggestion, I created my own version:
My version ignores the grid setting and just selects the first clip of the lane above the new lane and then press Alt+D to run this macro till the end of the lane (like yours).
