Comp edit - make many takes into one long clip?

[stxlm]

Hi,

This is one I've struggled with for years. Tonight I made an audio recording of some effect twiddling on a simple looped 8-bar chord, and it came to 22 8-bar takes. The only way I see of using all those is moving each consecutive take forward by 8 bars and place a slice. That amounts to a lot of editing. Have I missed an easier way to handle this? I know I should really copy the first 8-bar out on the arrangement to avoid this, but heh, I often find myself tweaking short segments.

Thankful for any help.

[JNeffLind]

Unfortunately I think you're stuck with spreading them out manually and them bouncing to a single track. Not 100% sure about that but I think that that is the case.

[eusti]

Not sure how to go from where you're at at this point in time.
But I usually try to copy the sequence that I'm trying to record to numerous times that I have let's say 8 linear repetitions when I need one...
Then I just let it run through once and drag the file out of lane and got to record another one... I know that is not what you asked for, but still my usual work around...

D.

[stxlm]

Thank you both for your quick replies! Eusti, yeah, that's how I guess I'd do it. Maybe copying the loop I want to record to a separate track first, depending on if I have an arrangement already or not. I've always been rewiring Reason to other DAWs that do this thing flawlessly (currently Live) but lately I'm trying to get into producing in Reason only.