Problems With Punch In

[gbart]

Hey Guys…. I'm brand new to LPX and I can't seem to find an answer to my questions via google. I was recording some acoustic guitar tracks and I used the Autopunch to fix a small flub. It seems that LPX creates an entire new track, along with a separate punch-in track, below the original track (see attachment). I now have three tracks. Is this normal? Is there a way to combine all tracks into one, so that I have one complete, fixed track? Also, I tried to employ flextime on the original track, but it didn't seem to work. It wouldn't generate any transients. Is this because I now have three tracks instead of one for my Acoustic Right part? Thanks in advance.

[triplets]

That's the famous track folder. Great feature.

You have one track with 2 takes. The long one is take one, and your punch is take 2.

The top region is the composite or end result from the bottom two. You are already listening to it.

Whatever you see in those takes as blue, is active. What's grey, is not active. Hence the grey segment on the section where you did the punch.

 

If you do bigger punches or record another take over it, you can use the quick-swipe function with the mouse. Also pretty cool.

[gbart]

Excellent info, triplets, thank you! Should flextime still work in this situation, or is there some way that I can combine the original with the two takes and then get flextime to generate the transients?

[triplets]

Excellent info, triplets, thank you! Should flextime still work in this situation, or is there some way that I can combine the original with the two takes and then get flextime to generate the transients?

 

Flex works too. But it's probably better if you flatten the take folder (from its menu button on the corner of the region) once you like what you did and then apply flex.

Flattening a take folder gets rid of all the takes and leaves whatever you selected or quick-swiped.

[gbart]

Yes…. flattening worked great! I'm still confused with the Flextime, though. It acts strangely. I was able to adjust the second acoustic track using flex. But, now I have three other short acoustic intro tracks, all playing the same thing. I chose the middle one because it had the best timing. I was able to use flex and adjust the timing issues on this track…. but, when I go to adjust the other two tracks, I can't. When I select one of the other tracks in the arrange window and click on the flex button, it just highlights the track. And the strange thing is, the middle track, which was already "flexed", all of a sudden turns dark and shows all the transients. Also, the flex Indicator on each track turns on. This is very frustrating!

[triplets]

You can also select a region, and then on the region parameter box on the left select flex there.

 

In the pic I have one region selected and that shows on the left. Flex is off but I can turn it on just for that particular region.

 

[gbart]

Thanks for all your help! I've decided to trash the two intro tracks that I wasn't able to adjust, and just go with one track. I've wasted two days on flextime and I still can't get it to work on certain tracks. Maybe I'll figure it out when I get more experienced with the program. Thanks again!