Questions on punch in and mix down

i've been using vers 1.5 and it seems a lot simpler to use. after punching in and want to keep the take- how do you put it in the track. another question i would like to mix my vocal to another track in multi track that i have added a fx to, i don't see how to do it. i hope i can get my questions answered i am fustrated.
jimbo3779

Never say "no", but I have not yet discovered that feature in GB 10.0.
Have you kept your GarageBand '11, version 6.0.5? The GarageBand 10.0 installer will have moved it to a subfolder "GarageBand 6.0.5" of Applications, so you still can use it. It works well with Mavericks.
That Apple did not remove the older version indicates to me, that Apple is very aware of the missing features, and I hope that newer GarageBand release will bring many of them back (sampler instruments, podcast track, effects, punch in). In the case of the new iWork for Mac the developers even announced a schedule, when the missing previous features will be supported again, see: About the new iWork for Mac: Features and compatibility
Let's hope, we will see the same for GarageBand.

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Just wondering if anyone has tried to mix down songs from analog tape (4-tracks, reel to reels, etc.) to Garageband. I've been trying to do this but for some reason after saving as an MP3, the mix sounds overly compressed, dull, and quiet. I am not using the compression in Garageband. I'm just plugging into the line in from my eight track and mixing down. If any on out there has any tips on this I'd greatly appreciate it.

crumbling wrote:
Hey Thanks for the info. I haven't been ticking the compress box and it still sounds totally compressed after mixdown. I usually mix down from my 8 track, 1/4 inch tape machine to a 1/4 inch two track. all analog. I then usually send the two track reel out for mastering (John Golden). I never do the mastering myself...I'm just looking for a way to make quick mixdowns onto digital format using garageband. The thing is I can get it to sound pretty great in Garageband but for some reason, on exporting it to itunes or saving it, the volume goes down and the thing sounds compressed. I was thinking that there's something I'm missing, but it seems like it's probably gonna happen no matter what. Let me know if you have any more tips. And thanks.
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You cannot merge Apple ID accounts, that has never been supported.
You can contact the Apple ID Security folks per the listing in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699 and they can help reset security questions and get the account working.

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I was just wondering if a user can MIX DOWN the audio and video without exportng the video and reloading it back into the project...
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Certainly!
When you say mix-down, to you mean raising the volume level in some places and lowering it in others? That's done using audio keyframes.
Audio keyframing can be done right on the timeline. Just select a clip and position the CTI playhead over it, then click the Make Keyframe button on the track header, to the left of the audio track. This will create a keyframe point at the position of the CTI. Raising this point will increase the volume and lowering it will decrease it. You can create and position as many keyframes as you need to mix your audio tracks.
As for your playback issue, you can isolate which area you edit, render or output by placing the Work Area Bar (the light colored gray bar that runs along the ticker on the timeline) so that it only covers a portion of your project.
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Mixing Down Multiple Tracks - Question

Hi.
Is it possible to mix down 2 or more tracks into 1 single track?
I'm doing some soundtrack work, working on the multi-track editor to a video I imported. I have a constant background ambiance that I made using the multi-track editor and the apple loops.
Is there a way I can mix the 3+ tracks that make up this ambiance down into 1 single track? Thus giving me less tracks to worry about (and less clutter) when editing additional foley sound effects etc.. over the ambiance?
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!http://rdiv.com/screenshots/STP_exportOption.jpg!

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I use the multitrack view to perform cross fades when I am patched a recording. I notice that when I ultimately export the resulting file via audio mix down that the overall levels of the recordings decrease. I am not talking about the parts of the recording that I have cross faded. I am referring to the untouched parts. Are the other settings that I need to be aware of so this doesn't happen?

dminches wrote:
Are the other settings that I need to be aware of so this doesn't happen?
Only one...
If you go to Preferences>Multitrack and change the pan law default setting from -3dB center to L/R cut Log, your mix will come out 3dB higher, and it's almost certainly this that you've noticed.
Important note: after you've changed the setting, you have to restart Audition for it to take effect.

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Coming from years of analogue recording I've been used to riding fader levels quite high (slamming the tape, etc.) However, I've noticed that in the DAW world this is actaully NOT such good practice!
I was wondering, though, if it was typical to have fader levels at such low levels. Sometimes my levels are at -18db or more!!? However, everything sounds good and the final mix comes out fine with some mastering tools. But I have found that lower fader levels allows for better mixing..its just odd, for me, to see such small scaling in the tracks' VU meters!
Am I doing something incorrectly here. Is there some kind of calibration that I am not aware of that raises the amount of fader play?
Thanks.

Clem et al,
This information was helpful as I too want to record in the -12 -18 range for tracking, but I'm struggling a bit with gain-staging, etc at the Tracking, Mixing and Mastering stages. My goal is to record as cleanly as possible and maintain headroom as I move between these three stages to a finished product. If you know of a good website that covers these fundamentals that would be also be helpful.
Here's what I'm currently doing on a typical song (I'm doing this all myself due to current budget)
TRACKING STAGE: Record each audio part (typically vocals, guitar & bass) at -12 to -18 in 24 bit / 44.1 kHz (44k to save disk space...I can do 96 on my Apogee Duet if that offers significant benefits. Note that this is the *recording level* - not where the vocal/bass/guitar sits after pulling back the track fader).
- Issues at this stage: When I record at this level I have to crank my Duet headphone output up to 100% and it still is occasionally hard to hear the part vs the backing material I've already recorded. When I track at a higher level and then pull back the fader for the mix this is not a problem.
- My Summit 2BA-221 pre appears to be barely working to get this -12 to -18 in Logic arrange window.
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- I want strong vocals, but don't want to then hear the backing track drop (due to compresssion) when the vocal levels jump higher.
MIXING STAGE: I have heard from more experienced musicians/engineers on other websites that I should mix down (bounce) to a stereo track prior to mastering and keep this to -3 -4 prior to mastering. Is this target level correct. Should I be using a buss/mix compressor here for "glue" and/or EQ here or wait until final Mastering stage?
MASTERING STAGE: Currently I am using Ozone 4 for this...any basic guidelines or pointers you can offer are very much appreciated.
I realize that much of this is subjective and an art, but I'm looking for basic building blocks that I can work from...to that end any related info you can provide is very much appreciated. I realize you could respond with a book to the above but I'm primarily interested in correcting my gain-staging approach as related to the original tracking level discussion here.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer!

Problems Exporting multiple tracks / Mix down - Big Probs!

Hi Guys,
I apologise for the large holes in my knowledge in advance.
I have asked a similar question before but I got a screen grab that does not appear in my version of STP (I use Version 2.0 I think, apologies, I am at work so can't be totally sure)
I have created a 30 minute project that goes accross 3 tracks with various bits of cut audio.
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I managed to export it at all using the lowest rates in the export menu but when I open the submix wav, it plays it full mixdown correctly but with about 8 empty tracks(?) in the main edit / playing window (not the session style window with all the tracks, buses etc)
I then can't convert the wav to an Mp3 (perhaps because it is not a standard wav) which means curtains for my podcast at present.
I am so sorry for the drivel that I have just written, If it does make sense I would be so glad if you could help me out.
How best to Mix Down my project?
Many thanks.
Dave.

Hi there,
My bad, the master mix was there, it is at the top but seperate so i must have missed it or thought it was the title of the menu, anyway, thanks for your help on that one.
The surround sound issue still bugs me but I changed the setting in 'Multitrack' and it seemed to work, as for the submix track, i see that at the bottom of the project (along with busses?) and there doesn't appear to be any sound file in there, i'll take another look and see if the settings need changing.
Thanks so much for your help as it was really doing my head in (along with the random crashes and slight movements in levels that I didn't touch)
It's fixed now so thank you very much indeed!!!
Here is the file if you wanna listen to it (shamelss plug), it;s a bit weird.
http://thehorncast.blogspot.com/
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Audio Mix Down

Might be a silly question but here it goes! What is the point of doing an audio mix down at the end of a project in FCP? Does it improve the sound?

HI there
Doesnt improve the sound at all. when you edit you place your music , sfx , source sound on probably 3+ tracks .. "Mix down " combines all these tracks and their audio into two or even 1 usable track/s.

Startling error messages when trying to bounce my final mixes down.

Friends, Im nervous about this one as I've logged in 100+ hours and dropped a little bit of $ for off-site recording.
When Im ready to "send songs to disk", an error message pops up saying "GarageBand found 2 audio files in 8-bit format" "This format is unsupported and can not be played back" with an OK" option. After pressing OK, it proceeds to mix down but saves nowehere on my comp (or drive).
After restarting and trying to reopen the session, Im given this error message: "This file type is not supported and gives me the truly horrible option of "abort". Then it gives me the error message again.
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So I went to the contents of the file and took the problem files out.
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Obviously, since the track for guiro is still there.
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When I use Ableton Live, it lets me choose 16, 24, or 32 bit, and then I can choose a sample rate all the way up to 192000. Is this possible in Audition ? I have been going through all the preferences and all the tabs and I can't find this option. All I find is a convert option, or the adjust option. But that's not what I want. I want to mix down this way.
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JimMcMahon85 wrote:
Can someone explain this process in laymens terms:
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/OzoneDitheringGuide.pdf ---> specifically Section: VIII "Don't believe the hype"
I don't read graphs well, can someone put in laymens terms how to do this test, step by step, and where do i get a pure sinewave to import into audition in the first place??
UNbelievable: So I have to first run visual tests using a sinewave to make sure dither is working properly, then do listening tests with different types of dither to hear which I like best on my source material, and then for different source material it's best to use different types of dither techniques???... Am I getting this right???...
Hmm... you only need to run tests and do all that crap if you are completely paranoid. Visual tests prove nothing in terms of what you want to put on a CD - unless it's test tones, of course. For the vast majority of use, any form of dither at all is so much better than no dither that it simply doesn't matter. At the extreme risk of upsetting the vast majority of users, I'd say that dither is more critical if you are reproducing wide dynamic range acoustic material than anything produced synthetically in a studio - simply because the extremely compressed nature of most commercial music means that even the reverb tails drop off into noise before you get to the dither level. And that's one of the main points really - if the noise floor of your recording is at, say, -80dB then you simply won't be hearing the effects of dither, whatever form it takes - because that noise is doing the dithering for you. So you'd only ever hear the effect of LSB dither (what MBIT+, etc. does) when you do a fade to the 16-bit absolute zero at the end of your track.
Second point: you cannot dither a 32-bit Floating Point recording, under any circumstances at all. You can only dither a recording if it's stored in an integer-based format - like the 16-bit files that go on a CD. Technically then, you can dither a 24-bit recording - although there wouldn't be any point, because the dither would be at a level which was impossible to reproduce on real-world electronics - which would promptly swamp the entire effect you were listening for with its own noise anyway. Bottom line - the only signals you need to dither are the 16-bit ones on the file you use for creating CD copies. And you should only dither once - hence the seemingly strange instructions in the Ozone guide about turning off the Audition dither when you save the converted copy. The basic idea is that you apply the dither to the 32-bit file during the truncation process - and that's dithered the file (albeit 'virtually') just the once. Now if you do the final file conversion in Audition, you need to make sure the dithering is turned off during the process, otherwise all the good work that Ozone did is undone. What you need to do is to transfer the Ozone dithering at the 16-bit level directly to a 16-bit file proper, without anything else interfering with it at all. So what you do with Ozone is to do the dithering to your master file, and save that as something else - don't leave the master file like that at all. After saving it, undo the changes to the original, in fact - otherwise it's effectively not a file you could use to generate a master with a greater-than-16-bit depth from any more, because it will all have been truncated. Small point, but easy to overlook!
just what's the easiest way to test if a simple dithering setting is
working for 32-bit down to 16-bit in Audition?... Why is there no info
about dithering from 32 bit to 16 bit (which is better then dithering
from 24-bit isn't it)?
I hope that the answers to at least some of this are clearer now, but just to reiterate: The easiest way to test if its working is to burn a CD with your material on it, and at the end of a track, turn the volume right up. If it fades away smoothly to absolute zero on a system with lower noise than the CD produces then the dither has worked. If you hear a strange sort-of 'crunchy' noise at the final point, then it hasn't. There is info about the 32 to 16-bit dithering process in the Ozone manual, but you probably didn't understand it, and the reason that there's nothing worth talking about in the Audition manual is because it's pretty useless. Earlier versions of it were better, but Adobe didn't seem to like that too much, so it's been systematically denuded of useful information over the releases. Don't ask me why; I don't know what the official answer to the manual situation is at all, except that manuals are expensive to print, and have also to be compatible with the file format for the help files - which are essentially identical to it.
Part of the answer will undoubtedly be that Audition is a 'professional' product, and that 'professionals' should know all this stuff already, therefore the manual only really has to be a list of available functions, and not how to use them. I don't like that approach very much - there's no baseline definition of what a 'professional' should know (or even how they should behave...), and it's an unrealistic view of the people that use Audition anyway. Many of them would regard themselves as professional journalists, or whatever, but they still have to use the software, despite knowing very little about it technically. For these people, and probably a lot of others, the manual sucks big time.
It's all about educating people in the end - and as you are in the process of discovering, all education causes brain damage - otherwise it hasn't worked.

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Itunes worked fine up until couple of days ago and now when I insert a CD to import it recognises the CD but when it starts importing, itunes stops working and shuts down immediately.
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