I’m not talking about duplicating the track, because the second track may have some automation that is needed. I’m talking about doing a simple copy & paste of the instrument assigned to one track into another track.
Seems simple, but is that possible in Cubase, or a similar thing?
Are you trying to have two tracks with the same instrument, regardless of content?
Maybe several ways. One that comes to mind is:
Duplicate Track.
Typically the freshly created track will be selected immediately following so…
Run project logical editors to delete all the MIDI and Automation events from the track. (Factory PLE’s exist to do it before/after the cursor. You could easily make your own that’ll simply clean out all parts/lanes).
If you like, you can bind these actions into a single ‘user macro’ that can be reused at will. If it’s something you do often, bind it to hot-keys. I.E. Select a track, enter your hot-key-combo (that plays whatever PLEs you need), and boom…new empty track with same instrument setup on demand.
Another way would be to save a track preset first. Make your new track, then load that preset.
Right, I was wondering if there was something simple, like a copy and paste, or duplicate. Same as you can do with any inserts in the mix console, just Option and click and drag to another track.
There might be, but I 'm not seeing it as something intuitive or obvious.
Personally, since it’s not something I’d do very often, I’d most likely just duplicate the track, then right click the thing and choose ‘select all events’, then hit delete key. Seems like that cleans out the automation lanes too (I forget, but if not, just unfold them and do the alt or ctrl select thing to get them all selected…right click/select-all-events, and tap delete for the automation lanes too.
If I know it’s an instrument with effect chains, gain staging, etc. that I’ll use again and again, I’d probably register it in Cubase as a track preset. As there is an option to ‘create track using preset’.
Create new track, load instrument, load patch, lock automation, copy/paste part - boom done. If you want the automation, dont lock. Or duplicate then delete whatever data you dont want. Or use scripts, but that seems overly complicated.