What's your strategy to not accidently overwrite or otherwise lose clips?

[madFloyd]

As I navigate through tracks and record small clips here and there, I often forget to disarm a track (from recording). The track is no longer visible on screen and I decide to record something on another track.... and if it's in the same area of the song, my previous recording gets overwritten (unbeknownst to me at the time).

I may not realize this until days/weeks/months later. This results in confusion, time lost going through the 'pool' and figuring out what I'm looking for, where exactly it goes etc etc etc.

I wish, similar to the global Solo and Mute, there was a way to DISARM ALL tracks or an option to have a warning when recording to multiple tracks at a time.

Anyone have a strategy for this? Only thing I can think of is simply being more careful and perhaps zooming to full to check for armed tracks... but I often have tracks temporarily hidden.


On a slightly different topic, what is the best approach to not losing work due to comping in different areas of a track?

For example, If I'm working on a verse of a song, recording an instrument and do several takes, it results in several track layers. So far so good, but if you do the same in another part of the song, how do you promote one performance without ruining the decisions you've made on the previous song section?

 

[SwitchBack]

You can't lose audio material without specifically instructing Studio One to delete it. So the WAV files are still there in the pool. Simply drag the previous take back into the track, as you do.

And yeah, be mindful of tracks being armed or not. Not the end of the world if you don't but it will save time.

NB. Just tried and you can select the top track, then shift-select the bottom track and the click an 'armed arm button' to disarm all tracks. Doesn't do it for hidden tracks though. And I don't think there's a 'disarm all tracks' in the keyboard shortcut options.

 

[Trucky]

Here's a helpful "Check Before Save" macro to visually check for any record enabled tracks before committing to save the song.
You can assign it to a keyboard shortcut (Example: "Ctrl-S" to replace the default "Save" command).

 

[madFloyd]

Here's a helpful "Check Before Save" macro to visually check for any record enabled tracks before committing to save the song.
You can assign it to a keyboard shortcut (Example: "Ctrl-S" to replace the default "Save" command).

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Thank you!!!

 

[Craig Anderton]

As I navigate through tracks and record small clips here and there, I often forget to disarm a track (from recording).

You can lock edits for tracks (right-click, Lock Track) and events (right-click, Edit Lock) to prevent any changes. Saved my butt a coupla times

(You can also lock to timeline position, but this applies only to bar/beats. If you change tempo, the event will stay locked to the bar/beat ruler, but not to the time ruler. So with video soundtracks, you can't use Time Lock to create hit point Events at specific times.)

And of course, I've already installed Trucky's Macro

 

[madFloyd]

You can lock edits for tracks (right-click, Lock Track) and events (right-click, Edit Lock) to prevent any changes. Saved my butt a coupla times

(You can also lock to timeline position, but this applies only to bar/beats. If you change tempo, the event will stay locked to the bar/beat ruler, but not to the time ruler. So with video soundtracks, you can't use Time Lock to create hit point Events at specific times.)

And of course, I've already installed Trucky's Macro

Thanks, Craig, I forgot about locking!

 

[mayojojo]

You can use the mixer view too and see which tracks are unnecessarily armed. Though it'd be nice if there was an option to limit only one armed track at a time

 

[Craig Anderton]

You can use the mixer view too and see which tracks are unnecessarily armed.

Trucky's Macro is perfect for that. Highly recommended

 

[madFloyd]

Trucky's macro inspired me to see if I could take it further (or rather further personalize it) and I came up with the attached. Not sure if this will be useful/applicable to anyone else but in case here it is.

It dis-arms all tracks (to do this it selects all tracks, arms them, then dis-arms them)
Collapses all tracks
Puts track height to normal
Opens explorer window to 'save as'

The only side effect I've noticed so far is if you had a track solo'd, it may change to another track (this is a byproduct of having 'Solo follows track selection ON' as the macro uses track selections....)