afrodude wrote: ↑24 Jun 2022
For anyone in the future, the current getaround is as follows:
1. Produce your song as you usually would.
2. Chop Midi and Audio into the Sections you would like to have.
3. Turn on Blocks and define your Sections
4. Select everything in that region then copy
5. Paste into Block (make sure Block length matches what has been pasted)
6. Now that your regions have been defined go back to the song view and select all and mute/push it out the way/(so you can see the blocks underneath)
Drawbacks:
1. Pasting all the info into blocks after the fact takes a minute
2. Blocks do not "switch positions" automatically
3. Audio (e.g. SFX) that might overlap into and from different Sections will also be chopped.
Workaround for that is to keep those clip in the song view and move them accordingly with the Section that you want them to be with.
Another method is to use a separate song file with a single track of a bounced master bus to do the experimenting:
1. Produce your song as you usually would
2. Export the master output of the track
3. import the exported file into a new empty song (setting the BPM to the same as the original song first)
4. Slice the imported file into sections and then move the clips around until you find the new arrangement you want
5. Once you're happy, load your original song back up and then replicate your new found arrangement by slicing, dragging and dropping
This means you don't need Blocks if you don't want it. It's a bit of a workaround and not a proper solution like what Logic and Cubase have. However, it is a nice easy way to play about with different ideas if you find your track's existing arrangement isn't working well enough and you didn't start work in Blocks to begin with.