I apologize in advance if this topic has already been covered - I haven’t been able to locate a solution in searching the various boards.
I am having difficulty renaming individual regions without renaming all of the regions in the track. I use the info line to do this, and toggling the pref “parts get track names” seems to have no effect.
Just to be clear on what I am trying to do - I’d like to be able to split up a track of a performance in order to identify individual sections of it for editing purposes. I hope I am making myself clear. This is very simple to do in ProTools.
Not sure if I’m getting exactly what you mean but if you highlight multiple parts and rename in the info lane then all parts will get that name. Is that what you want? Also with the pref “parts get track names”, if you’ve already got something recorded on the track without the pref activated you need to move the part to another track and then move it back, it will then take on the track name. Doesn’t work retroactively I believe until you do that.
If I’m understanding the OP correctly this is simple…just use the box in the top (see my screen grab below) to rename the separate sections. But maybe this is not what is required?
You did just create parts and it’s ok BUT if you record and you split a event in two parts you cannot have different names because it is the same audio file.
If you’re talking audio events then they have two fields in the Info Line: the Name of the audio file (called the File field) and the Description field. If you can’t see both then check your Info Line preferences (right click on the Info Line and you can tick things you want to see and edit). Using the Description field you can uniquely mark each clip of an audio file in the project.
…and I half suspected this as I was writing so I checked at the time and it worked as I described. BUT it’s not quite as simple as that. In the screen grab below I have successfully chopped up a recorded wave and given each section different names. But I can’t do it with some of the other audio tracks in the same song… I shall have to try and work out what the difference is.
That aside using the description field is, as Mike describes above, what I’ve done in the past.
Ok i tested.
Conclusion:
A single recorded or imported file, can only have one name even if you split it. You can add different description in every event and so the file name gets Brackets.
If you create parts with events and then split the parts you can name the parts as you wish. The parts can contain any events.
We have to separate the meaning of parts and events, that’s the trick.
These questions are useful for this sort of thing, it’s not something I’d though of in great depth before as I rarely rename bits like this anymore but useful to know how to if I want to.
Thank you all for these in depth replies! The description field appears to be the simple answer I was looking for. Ir there a similar approach for dealing with midi tracks?
