I have a question about replacing audio events:
Let’s say I have an audio track for my kick drum, and for my kick drum i use an audio sample from my hard drive.
At some point I might decide to try a different kick sample instead, but i want to put it on a new track so i won’t have to mess with the inserts on the first kick channel. so i duplicate the original audio track, and now i have 2 tracks with the same kick sample.
At this point I will drag the new kick sample i want to try from my hard drive into cubase, and while holding shift, i’ll drop it on one of the samples on my second audio track. now cubase asks ‘All’ or ‘Only This’, and when I click All - all of the old kick samples are replaced including the ones on the first track. I understand why it’s happening, but is there any short and effective way to overcome this??
Aha, interesting, I’ve never used this feature! But just to see what it does I checked it out and you can’t do what you need to. Even if you lock the track it replaces the audio - kind of unusual for a locked track, could almost be said to be a bug that one…
OK, the way to do it is to dup the project, then open both projects, then replace the samples in the dup project and drag all the parts from the track over to the orig project. The only issue with this is that using the Ctrl key to lock the horizontal drag doesn’t work between projects (I think it ought to!) but you can use ‘snap to event’ after dragging over to snap to the orig samples track.
After duplicating the original track select all the evens on the new track and use the fuction “convert to Independent copy” (or so, I a using the german Version, so my Translation might be a Little bit wrong). After that replace with the new sample.
After duplicating the original track select all the evens on the new track and use the fuction “convert to Independent copy” (or so, I a using the german Version, so my Translation might be a Little bit wrong). After that replace with the new sample.
I checked that idea out and it doesn’t work because it replaces each sample with a new independent copy so none of them are linked anymore and then when you replace one it only replaces that single one. There’s no way that I could find to dup the track to a ‘new copy’ but keep all the samples on that track linked except opening two projects, duping in one project then replacing and dragging over to the other one. This works.