July 7, 2007: In The Studio Again

Went to Alan's studio with the wav tracks (from Adobe Audition) for all 3 songs. Once there, we discovered that the Audition tracks were not usable - the clips that did not start at the beginning of each track could not be synchronized. I will need to revise the Audition tracks and figure out how to export all the tracks with the same starting point. While we were at Alan's studio, we went ahead and recorded a new rhythm track for Bad, Bad Man, then remixed the song. The purpose of the new rhythm track was to add a harder sound.

A few days after our trip to Alan's studio, I discovered the secret to exporting 'bits and pieces' from Audition in a way that will keep them all in perfect sync when imported into Cakewalk (Alan uses Cakewalk in his studio). The solution in Audition is to mute all tracks in the session except for the one that is to be exported. Then, when the export is done, a full export wav track is created that is the identical size as the largest track in the session, i.e., any space preceding the actual sound bit in the track is filled with blank audio space. All tracks can then be imported into Cakewalk (or any other software) and left-aligned to sync up - an easy and effective solution.