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Working with tracks and lanes
• To glue cuts, select a range that spans all the cuts that
you want to glue and double-click.
The gluing affects all the lanes of a track.
• To correct the timing of a range, hold down [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand]-[Alt]/[Option] (the tool modifier for Slip Event) and
drag with the mouse.
The mouse pointer changes its shape to indicate that you can change
the timing.
Ö For all comping operations except “Slip Events”, Snap
is taken into account.
Cubase only: You can also perform a multi-track comping
using edit groups (see “About Group Editing (Cubase
only)” on page 80), for example, to comp two guitar tracks
recorded with different microphones.
Comping with the cursor keys
Another way of comping is to use the cursor keys to navi-
gate through the takes and the lanes and the “Move To
Front (Uncover)” key command (by default [U]) to bring
the active take to front.
Using the Solo button
To solo a lane, you can activate the Solo button for it. This
allows you to hear the lane in project context. If you want
to hear the take without project context, you will also have
to activate the main track’s Solo button.
Ö The Solo button also comes in handy in case you used
the lowermost lane for assembling your “perfect take” in-
stead of using the comping techniques.
Additional steps
After rearranging the overlapping events so that you hear
what you want, you can perform additional steps.
Audio
1. Apply auto fades and crossfades to the comped
events.
2. Select all events and select “Delete Overlaps” from
the Advanced submenu on the Audio menu to put all
events in the top lane and resize the events so that over
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lapping sections are removed.
3. Open the Audio menu and select the “Bounce Selec-
tion” function to create a new and continuous event of all
selected events.
MIDI
1. Open your takes in a MIDI editor to perform fine ad-
justments like removing or editing notes.
2. Select all parts in the Project window and use the
“Merge MIDI in Loop” option from the MIDI menu with the
“Erase Destination” option activated to create a single
MIDI part containing your “perfect take”.
Before…
…and after gluing.