need some BIGTIME cubase help...

[colonel kurtz]

hey guys, so i made a rrrrrrrrrrrreally dipshitted mistake, and somehow deleted the majority of an overhead track on a song that i was heavily slip editing. i dunno how the hell it happened, but it did...and i didn't notice until almost all the way thru the song.

anyways, i was wondering if anyone knew of a way that i could re-import that one file, then apply the edits that were made across all the other tracks to just that one. it seems like this is something that should be possible, but i couldn't find anything in the manual or key commands on it. any workaround you guys might be able to offer up would be awesome, because i'm definitely not in the mood to do this shit all over again...

 

[binting]

did you check your pool

 

[colonel kurtz]

the file is still in the pool, but it doesn't help any. the entire track didn't get deleted, like 3/4 of it did...which i don't understand, because all of the tracks were grouped together. i have no idea how the majority of one track disappeared and not the others, but i feel like there should be a way of applying everything that was done on one OH track to the other without having to manually edit the entire damn thing again...

 

[JeffTD]

Ok so this is what you do. It's weird but it works.

Take one of the edited tracks (snare, kick, whatever) and duplicate it. Bounce the original to a new waveform (consolidate the edit; this part is necessary). Close cubase.

In the Audio folder, find the duplicated original track (Snare OG, not Snare consolidated. The one that got cut the fuck up while editing). Delete it. Duplicate your OH track and rename it to be IDENTICAL to the original track (Snare OG, in this example).

Open Cubase.

It'll connect the audio but it'll be named wrong; the Snare OG track will now have OH information on it, but it will still look like the snare track (the waveform doesnt get updated until you consolidate the edits; bounce in place). Media, bounce selection, replace. You now have the edited track you thought you lost, but it's named something stupid like "Snare OG_1."

 

[colonel kurtz]

dude thank you so much

i knew as soon as i saw your name in the thread that i'd get a workaround!

the longer i have/use cubase, the more i realize i don't know shit about the depths of its capabilities!

 

[JeffTD]

The program is nuts... there's a lot of weird, unearthly shit that goes on but I love it now that I know it so well. Glad to have helped!

 

[rvs0002]

Nice one Jeff. Hope I never have to use it, but it's nice to know that workaround exists.

 

[TheDustbowl]

Ctrl Z if you haven't saved?