Copy/Pasting Mixes In Logic 9

[Evan Hoyles]

Hey, I finished a mix and want to use the same one on the rest of this bands songs so in the mixer I went to options then copy audio configuration. Then went into the next song pasted it and everything was messed up. I thought it would go by track # (which are all in order) but it seems that it goes by audio # which are totally messed up. Is there a quick fix to this? Is there a way to change the audio# of a track? I really hope i don't have to transfer this manually any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Charlie E.]

http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/logicpro/

Click on the video titled "The power of simplicity."

 

[Ola Englund]

wow that was a pretty neat trick! have to start using it...

 

[Evan Hoyles]

Man that's awesome I'll give it a try when I get home!

 

[setyouranchor]

Or you could try this:

Save the current track your working on
Delete all audio/automation
File > Save as template >Name it

Next time you open up logic, use this template

Or, just record everything in that session? Delete all audio/automation, save as *insert new song name* then just start again, tweak as you go along

 

[ze kink]

Holy shit, this is exactly what I've been looking for I've been doing it by hand now in the project I'm doing and it's a pain in the ass; the method explained by setyouranchor just fucks up the entire session, since there's so many tracks that are completely different, and also because the track counts are at about 35 in one song and over 100 in some others.

 

[Machinated]

cant believe people didnt know this, can be such a timesaver!

 

[mickrich]

I have a template set up so all tracks are in the same place every session.
Then in the mixer window options>copy audio configuration in mixed song then options>paste audio configuration in the the next song.
This copies EVERYTHING. All levels, plugins on tracks and busses, all routing etc. So the mix is an exact copy of the other song.
I use this all the time then tweak the second song.
Works great.
The new import data through browser is handy for some things but my way is better to copy a mix.
You just have to make sure your tracks line up the same in each song.

 

[updog]

awesome, never realized that import trick, thanks!

 

[AndrewPGlover]

I am currently transitioning from Logic to Pro Tools, but this is an awesome trick. Anyway to do it in PT?

 

[no-xplode]

OK, say you have 50 tracks in a Logic song made a mix with it with lets say 100+ plugins and sends etc.
How do you go to copy the mixer configuration to the next song? Doing the copy audio configuration messes stuff up, because during the mix of the default song you may change tracks order, rename tracks, etc etc.
Saving as template won't work either because the next song's content is already there! In order to do this you have to bounce/export all tracks into 0 start and re-import them into that template.
Now, the replace mode is cool but it has to be done in EACH track. So that's a lot of work for 50 tracks (and maybe 10 songs for an album). Has anyone found an automatic way of replacing mixer configuration an all tracks at once? Maybe Logic could understand the track names, and replace channel strip configurations regardless of track order.
Just saying..

 

[AdamWathan]

I am currently transitioning from Logic to Pro Tools, but this is an awesome trick. Anyway to do it in PT?

File>Import Session Data

 

[Machinated]

OK, say you have 50 tracks in a Logic song made a mix with it with lets say 100+ plugins and sends etc.
How do you go to copy the mixer configuration to the next song? Doing the copy audio configuration messes stuff up, because during the mix of the default song you may change tracks order, rename tracks, etc etc.
Saving as template won't work either because the next song's content is already there! In order to do this you have to bounce/export all tracks into 0 start and re-import them into that template.
Now, the replace mode is cool but it has to be done in EACH track. So that's a lot of work for 50 tracks (and maybe 10 songs for an album). Has anyone found an automatic way of replacing mixer configuration an all tracks at once? Maybe Logic could understand the track names, and replace channel strip configurations regardless of track order.
Just saying..

What you are asking is a bit complex....

in cases like this, start a new session, and import the tracks/settings/routing etc from your template project without importing the audio tracks (obviously).

When you have the basic tracks, import the audio/tempo/markers etc from your other song and import them track by track. when you start adding new/different tracks that werent in your template, just import the settings they had in the other project.

really not very hard, and not very time consuming.

 

[no-xplode]

What you are asking is a bit complex....

in cases like this, start a new session, and import the tracks/settings/routing etc from your template project without importing the audio tracks (obviously).

When you have the basic tracks, import the audio/tempo/markers etc from your other song and import them track by track. when you start adding new/different tracks that werent in your template, just import the settings they had in the other project.

really not very hard, and not very time consuming.

Hey Ed.

I understand your philosophy but this is pretty much standard for me.
I record an album, 10 songs, 10 different projects, same amount of basic tracks.
Lets say I mix one song, and want to import those settings to all of my projects, so I have consistency and start mixing from there.
A problem I faced recently was that I had to manually create headphone mixes through logic for each project as I was doing overdubs. Each time I had to manually set all the cue levels for each project and for each instrument mix I was recording each time. What I wanted to do is import just the cue sends for all tracks everytime I switched projects, based on my first recording project where I set the levels. That is a thing I haven't figured out yet.
How do you go on recording albums with software headphone mixes?
And how do you mix an album for consistency and start tweaking from there?

 

[Machinated]

i dont get your problem with headphone mixes, can you explain more?

I'm doing albums in separate projects, as I track I import stuff from other projects of the same album so things are consistent.

when it comes to mixing, im just replacing the processing on the tracks with the processing i have on other projects and then im amending levels and adjusting things from there. with most things, as long as your drum, bass, guitar and vocal processing is fairly similar and you are able to achieve interaction and cohesion with the mix, your projects will sound close enough alike.

usually its a case that one song will be more advanced than the others, so ill start applying stuff from that mix to others. sometimes ill work on other songs and change stuff (e.g. change the bass processing), in which case ill go through the other songs and copy that in.

 

[no-xplode]

OK I see what you mean.

About the headphone mixes.
Lets say I track drums on song 1. I create a mix from all the drum tracks going to a hardware out.
The I track drums for all the songs and lets say I copy that cue send levels from??? I guess this is where copy/paste audio configuration works. For all the tracks.
The I go record bass. For the bassist I will create a different headphone mix in Song 1. So I lower the cue send levels of the drums and I create new cue sends from the bass track. After I finish with that cue mix and I am happy, how do I copy it to all the songs?
Then I record vocals. So in song 1 I lower the drums a bit more, maybe the hi-hat a bit up, bass down, an vocals up plus a new send for the vocal reverb. So how do I copy that cue mix to the other songs? etc etc.

Basically I am looking for an automatic and not time-consuming way of importing cue sends (and of course their levels with their routing) into the other projects. Regardless of whether I have changed track order, automation on the other projects.

Copy audio configuration does this: Lets say on the template project I have Track 1 to Track 50, then the paste function copies everything from Track 1 to Track 50. So if I automated a bus/aux, and moved it between Track 4 and 5, then that bus with get the settings of Track 5! Am I correct?
If this is happening, in order to reaally create this automatically, I have to be sure not to move aux/buses in the mixer area between audio tracks and keep the same order of tracks every time I do this.

I just wish Logic could understand where to place the configurations judging by only the track names. I mean only to paste if it matches with the template project

 

[AndrewPGlover]

I have a template set up so all tracks are in the same place every session.
Then in the mixer window options>copy audio configuration in mixed song then options>paste audio configuration in the the next song.
This copies EVERYTHING. All levels, plugins on tracks and busses, all routing etc. So the mix is an exact copy of the other song.
I use this all the time then tweak the second song.
Works great.
The new import data through browser is handy for some things but my way is better to copy a mix.
You just have to make sure your tracks line up the same in each song.

This is something I never knew and I've been working in Logic almost exclusively for 3 years. This SAVED a project for me since we were rendering drums and ran into problems.

I definitely owe you a beer or something.