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51 Takes and Comping
OVERVIEW
A take stores the contents of the track. Each track
can have an unlimited number of different takes. If
you want to keep what is already in a track, but you
want to try an alternative version of it (either
recorded from scratch or based on the current
take), choose New Take or Duplicate Take from the
Take menu. The original data is preserved in its
own take, which you can always return to by
choosing it by name from the Take menu.
Takes are great for cycle-recording. If you’d like to
try recording again the next time through the loop,
just choose New Take from the menu. Your
previous take is saved, and a new, empty take is
ready to be recorded into. After you are done, you
can either choose the best take, or quickly build a
final composite track made of the best parts of
several takes using the Comp tool.
Takes can be used with all track types. When used
with audio tracks in the Sequence Editor, you can
use Digital Performer’s powerful comping features
to quickly create a comp take from multiple takes.
Take menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Indication of multiple takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Comp takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Comp tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Takes and key commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Conductor track takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Takes interact with multiple mixdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
TAKE MENU
The Take menu (Figure 51-1), found in the Tracks
List take column and the Sequence Editor info
panel as shown below, has several commands to
help you manage takes.
Figure 51-1: The Take menu.
New Take
New Take (Figure 51-1) creates a new, empty take
for the track.