Hey folks, I need a sanity check on the Group Quantize-locked audio option, and my general workflow.
I recorded a bunch of guitar parts on two different tracks - track one is the Left out and track two is the Right out of my Helix into my interface. The tracks are in the same Group, and have Editing (Selection) and Quantize-Locked (Audio) enabled.
I'm creating the Comps and have swiped all the takes that I like.
Now - here's my optimal desired workflow: I want to perfect the Comps by applying Flex Time to make small adjustments to timing. I want to do this within the Takes of a Comp, so that I can maintain maximum flexibility of auditioning the Take swiping and Flex time adjustments, so that I avoid any potential re-work of Flattening & Merging, only to find that I want to make a change in the underlying Comp.
In my mind this makes a lot of sense. It makes the Comp the one-stop shop for the entire performance, and limits the additional step of editing separate tracks that have been Flattened and Merged. The problem is, when I make a Flex time change to Track 1, it is visually but not audibly reflected in Track 2. Worse yet, as I toggle the 'Quantize-locked' audio setting on/off of the Group, this seems to change the behavior and makes it hard to replicate the issue!
1.) Here's Track 1 - I want to move the note at the playhead a scootch to the left.
2.) Here it is after moving - I moved it a LOT more for illustrative effect.
3.) Here is second track in the group. The waveform from the Track 1 edit is reflected here too!
UPON PLAYBACK, if Quantize-locked audio is enabled, the audio does not align to the visuals within the Daw - Track 1 is affected by the Flex time change, and Track 2 plays as normal.
When Quantize-locked audio is enabled, the audio reflects the visuals (which is what I want)
This can change from Flex to flex.... sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Across many forums and instructional videos, I've understood 'Phase locked' / 'Quantize-locked' audio to be the standard use of Grouped multi-tracks for editing. Am I understanding this feature correctly? Is this advisible/inadvisible?