comp recording or comping is when you record multiple takes onto the same track and then you
can pick and choose sections from each take to form your final comp track and in this tracktion
waveform tutorial i'm going to show you how to easily comp record in tracktion waveform free
and waveform pro i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the
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and reviews now let's jump into this tracktion waveform tutorial so i have a simple drum beat set
up here and i'm going to record my bass guitar for the comp recording demo and you can also do this
with any recording so what we want to do is set up a loop region and to do that you just want to move
your markers up here so they cover a region that you're going to be recording in normally i would
do like the whole song as a take but sometimes i'll do just little sections and that's what
i'm going to do for this demo is just a little section so i can quickly show you comp recording
then once you have your section identified here you want to go down to loop and you want to make
sure loop is turned on and what this is going to do is it's going to allow us to loop record
this entire section here and so we'll keep recording and recording as many takes as we want
all right so i have my track set up for recording i have my input set it's armed for recording and
we're ready to record so you just hit the record button like normal and i have it set so you're
going to see it's going to count in and then it will start recording and will keep recording
all right before i get into editing the comp track i just want to ask if you're enjoying this video
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alright so i did a bunch of takes there and if i click this little plus sign in the corner of
the clip you can see all of the takes i did so i think there was six altogether i think this
one's yeah that one's just blank when i stopped the recording so i have six takes to choose from
so what i want to do is click on show takes and now you can see all of our takes here and this
is our comp track up at the top in green here so that's going to be the final output that we hear
and by default is just on the first take so what we can do is just listen to our first take
all right let's say i liked the first part here up until about this part here so you
can see our takes are numbered and what we're listening to right now is take one but let's just
have a look at take two now and we'll
just click highlight that section there and now we have to highlight take one and we have all
of that into our comp track and i'm just going to continue on with that section of take one
we have all of take one but this section and let's just listen to what that sounds like
all right i don't really like that one either
this one looks like the timing might be a little more on but
looks like i might have messed up i'm just going to scroll down
looks like i might have messed up that part right there so i'm going to take that part from here
do this now let's listen to that
all right i don't really like this end part here so i'm going to change
it to a different take let's try this take here
nope that was a mess up so we'll go to this one
there i think i like all of that together now so you can see i have bits and pieces
from multiple takes and that forms our top comp track here so if we're happy with that we can
click on this plus sign again and you can see we have comp 2 here and i could flatten
this which would get rid of all of the takes and it would just create one final comp track
or i could just hide the takes so all we see is just the comp track and no one would know
the difference or we could also unpack to new tracks and that would unpack each of those takes
to separate new tracks and that could be good if you liked multiple takes and maybe
you want to do some doubling then that could be useful for that but for this i'm just going
to keep it at hide the takes that way in case i notice something i don't like i can go back
and change it up later on so i'll just keep it like that and the clip looks the same and will
act the same as any other audio clip by default i typically record at least three takes but usually
it's like seven takes that i'll do and then that way i know i'm set i have a lot of material to
work with so if there's something i flubbed or whatever i can mix and match each part if you want
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