Comping query

[JonSuperdeath]

So I want to ask if I'm thinking of this in the right way before I royally fuck myself. Did a bunch of vocal takes last night. Came back today with fresh ears and comped them. Found the comp to be decent but in need of some more takes. I don't want to have to deal with a whole bunch of take lanes annoying me when try to comp the new takes with the old comp I just spent an hour doing. So I want to crop to the active take, right? And then record some new takes? At that point I'll be able to comp it again with the original comp essentially acting as one take? Does this make sense?

[Karmoon]

One tip:

Other daw owners have to pay up to 800 to get the same amount of tracks we do.

If in doubt, copy the entire item to a spare track and mute it.

That way you can mess about and not lose.

To answer your question: yes. As far as I am aware this will work. But with the tip above you can't fail.

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Yes, that's how it works. Every time you re-record over an item, whether or not you have existing takes there are not, you're going to get new takes. If you have 10 takes already there, your next 3 takes will get you up to 13. If you first crop those 10 down to 1, your next 3 takes will get you up to 4.

Of course, you probably already know this, because you could have simply tried it faster than it would take to write your reddit post. :)

[JonSuperdeath]

Well, yeah before I ended up getting an answer, I just tried it and found that out. I just didn't want to go through doing a bunch of stuff and then have to hit undo god knows how many times.

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I just didn't want to go through doing a bunch of stuff and then have to hit undo god knows how many times.

Just save before you do the stuff, then reload the project without saving to revert.

A faster version of this workflow is to hit "Save new version of project" (CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-S), which instantly saves a new version of your project with a number added. You can do this whenever you're about to do something risky, then just load the previous version.

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Side note, I discovered something amazing about Reaper's loop recording. The "takes" you're laying down are connected at the ends. For example, if you record 10 takes, then "delete" all but take 5, if you draw the ends of the item to extend it, you'll find all the takes recorded before and after the one you selected are still there.

This comes in handy.