Independent tracks got entangled when put in a folder

[edurbrow]

I was doing pitch correction on my vocals and sometimes there are spots that are glitchy. For some reason there will be gaps in the bars of pitch and it is very noticeable. My workaround has been to add another track without flex on and put the same region there and turn on automation. Then I use the marque tool to select the part that is glitchy in both tracks, and move the automation volume to zero in the glitch track and move it up in the repair track. This is cumbersome, but it kind of works. The big disadavantage is that I have to use automation and have to change all the parts that I've placed in the repair track if I change the level.

Well, today, I had to do that in a couple of spots. I placed all my vocals in a stack, and now when I try to do this technique the tracks are suddenly entangled and whatever adjustment I do with a marquee is applied to the other track, so I cannot put the glitchy track down and the unprocessed track up.

Is there a much better way to do this? How can I un-entangle the tracks?

Thank you in advance,

[edurbrow]

BTW, I just tried to take them out of the stack, which is flatten stack, I guess, but the tracks are still entangled.

[David Nahmani]

Sounds like somehow both tracks are assigned to the same channel strip perhaps? 

What I do in those situations is I use the Marquee tool to cut the region and turn Flex off for the small regions where I don't want it in the Region inspector. That avoids having to use automation, and keeps everything neatly on a single track.

[edurbrow]

1 hour ago, David Nahmani said:

Sounds like somehow both tracks are assigned to the same channel strip perhaps? 

What I do in those situations is I use the Marquee tool to cut the region and turn Flex off for the small regions where I don't want it in the Region inspector. That avoids having to use automation, and keeps everything neatly on a single track.

Region! That is brilliant. I thought flex applied to the whole track. Or rather, I never thought about it, I didn't realize you could have a flexed and non-flexed region in the same track.

Thank you.

[David Nahmani]

Yes there's an On/Off Flex button for the whole track but then as an added "layer" of switching Flex On/Off there's that setting at the region level in the Region inspector. 

Great! You're welcome. 😀

[edurbrow]

Disregard please. I cannot seem to delete this.

Edited July 26, 2022 by edurbrow

[David Nahmani]

50 minutes ago, edurbrow said:

If I drag the region to another track and try to trim it to the troubled word, the original track gets trimmed.

Are the tracks grouped? 

[edurbrow]

1 hour ago, David Nahmani said:

Are the tracks grouped? 

No they weren't grouped. But I should have reread your answer. I stupidly didn't and found I could not delete the post. Luckily,  the one major glitch kind of corrected itself.
Thank you.