Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

.... also glues together stuff vertically?  I thought it was only horizontally within a track, so 
when I tried to glue together backing vocal parts the other day I got a prompt asking if I 
wanted to combine all the tracks to make one mono file or one stereo file!!   For my purposes 
this was not helpful, because individual track automation would be lost.   So the "bounce" 
function did the trick for that.

    Just thought you all might like to know ... maybe I'm the only doofus who asumed it was 
like "consolidate track/s" in Pro Tools.

    Peace,

        Pete

> That's right. In the manual, they call that Glue Tool function  
> "Digital Mixdown."

The glue tool is really a smart thing -- it works in a context- 
dependent manner. It will mix heterogeneous sound files, but if it  
can tell that regions are from the same file source, it will simply  
combine regions. It will also work when regions aren't contiguous,  
and it will fill in the gaps with silence.

It's handy for MIDI regions, too.

Skip

>
> wanted to combine all the tracks to make one mono file or one  
> stereo file!! For my purposes
> this was not helpful, because individual track automation would be  
> lost. So the "bounce"
> function did the trick for that.
>
> Just thought you all might like to know ... maybe I'm the only  
> doofus who asumed it was
> like "consolidate track/s" in Pro Tools.
>
> Peace,
>
> Pete
>
>
> 



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Thats good to know, but as I recall, glueing audio makes a bounce but without 
any plugins and possibly without level adjustments if the different tracks 
are set up differently. So I just use bounce with solo to get what I am hearing 
bounced down.

> 
> .... also glues together stuff vertically? I thought it was only 
> horizontally within a track, so
> when I tried to glue together backing vocal parts the other day I got a 
> prompt asking if I
> wanted to combine all the tracks to make one mono file or one stereo file!! 
> For my purposes
> this was not helpful, because individual track automation would be lost. So 
> the "bounce"
> function did the trick for that.
> 
> 




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Right - the Glue tool uses the volume levels set at the track level,  
I believe.

And right, no plugins, which is sort of the point, I think. The idea  
is to mix raw audio. Otherwise you can use Freeze or Bounce.

SL
On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:20 PM, GAmoore@... wrote:

> Thats good to know, but as I recall, glueing audio makes a bounce  
> but without
> any plugins and possibly without level adjustments if the different  
> tracks
> are set up differently. So I just use bounce with solo to get what  
> I am hearing
> bounced down.
>
> >
> > .... also glues together stuff vertically? I thought it was only
> > horizontally within a track, so
> > when I tried to glue together backing vocal parts the other day I  
> got a
> > prompt asking if I
> > wanted to combine all the tracks to make one mono file or one  
> stereo file!!
> > For my purposes
> > this was not helpful, because individual track automation would  
> be lost. So
> > the "bounce"
> > function did the trick for that.
> >
> >
>
> **************************************
> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at
> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
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>
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On Jul 29, 2007, at 10:16 AM, F Stuart Leeds wrote:

> The glue tool is really a smart thing -- it works in a context-
> dependent manner. It will mix heterogeneous sound files, but if it
> can tell that regions are from the same file source, it will simply
> combine regions. It will also work when regions aren't contiguous,
> and it will fill in the gaps with silence.
>
> It's handy for MIDI regions, too.
>
> Skip
>

Ok I gotta ask now.. What do you mean by 'contiguous' regions.
Mixing drums recently, I went and painstakingly cut out the cymbal  
noise/silence/etc in between the hits on my snare tracks.
At the time I started editing I had completely forgotten we have the  
Strip Silence tool available so I did it the hard way.

So when I decided to go back and do it again with Strip Silence and  
make it 'cleaner',  Not having moved any of the snare hits from their  
original positions, I selected the whole track and hit the glue tool.  
It wanted to make an entire new bounce. Now sometimes Ive seen it  
just simply recombine two audio regions I had without bouncing, and  
it obviously does it great with MIDI..
So is it because I removed audible sections in between the hits that  
it wanted to make a new one?
I figured it would just combine the hits with silence inserted in but  
nope, wanted a new track made.

What I did anyways was just drag the original back out onto a new  
track, lined it up with the previous one, stripped silence, deleted  
the old one, moved the new track to the old snare tracks channel. I  
mean its not too much extra work but it couldve saved some combined  
time as i had to do this with 6 songs, and both the Kick and two  
snare tracks in each song hehe..
(And next time I'll remember I have the Strip Silence tool WHEN I  
START EDITING)

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