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NL5
10-17-2009, 09:45 PM
OK. I have a project that was brought to me. It is a bunch of songs recorded "live" with about 20 tracks. Some of the takes include several songs. the band went thru and picked ten of the songs to use for scratch tracks. We then recorded drums to those sections. After that, I took and broke the project up into individual songs, and deleted the rest of the audio that was not used for that particular song.

What I want to do, is to be able to get rid of most of the unused audio from each song's cpr, but not delete it off the HDD as it is used in other songs. I've never had this issue, so I am unaware of how to go about this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
RiffWraith
10-17-2009, 10:05 PM
Audio editing is non-destructive in Cubase/Nuendo. Go ahead and delete the unwanted audio events from the project(s); it will not delete the associated audio files from the HD. If you want, you can open the pool after doing this, and remove any unused audio files. Do not put them in the trash, and then empty the trash with an erase. This will delete the actual audio files from the HD.

Cheers.
Sound Drifter
10-18-2009, 01:23 AM
The way I work is, I will keep the band in one long project, calling it 1-MASTER-ARTIST NAME. Most of the core tracking is done here. Then it gets divided up to a per song timeline named 1-MIX-ARTIST NAME-SONG NAME and the audio files are copied to a different directory so to have a backup in case something goes screwy with the same name: 1-MIX-ARTIST NAME-SONG NAME. All tracking done in the mix sessions is imported to the master session for a complete collection of takes. The separate mix sessions can be cleaned of erroneous audio files, deleted so to have a nice slim directory since all takes are backed up in the MASTER. When mixing is complete and ext effect tracks are printed, etc, each song folder goes to a separate CD backup. then the MASTER project folder gets archived and spanned over a few compact discs.

Yea, I may be strange but it keeps things separated and together at the same time.