What is it called when

[Lucius]

say you recorded a single track with gaps inbetween. I now want to "consolidate" (not bounce) the track into one solid track:

track 1) _______________ ___________________ ______________ to this
track 1) __________________________________________________

What is this process called and how to I do it in Cubase 5???

I recorded a band on their rig, now I want to take the 8 tracks home and mix them up but I don't want to spend the time lining up the tracks. I want to make all the tracks exactly the same length to avoid this. Its not mixdown but something else. Cheers, lucius

[SenatorClayDavis]

Not sure about Cubase but in Reaper you'd just solo "Track 1" and render it, selecting "add rendered file to project".

[Lucius]

well I was able to do a "Batch Export" and place the cursors, select the tracks then export. It seems however, it printed all the eqs and stuff as well (didn't really want that). Protools was a bit my intuitive for this type of thing. Cheers, lucius

[Markdude]

Combining multiple clips into one track is usually called 'comping'. You can get Cubase to treat all of the clips on a track as one big clip by selecting the clips, then going to the Audio menu, then selecting "Events to Part". This won't actually bounce the waveforms into one clip, it will just make Cubase automatically treat them as being one (including gaps between them) to make it easier to process and move them around as if they were all recorded as one clip from the start. It won't actually bounce them to a new waveform. However, it doesn't include the silence before the first clip, so it wouldn't circumvent manually aligning the track in a new session.

Anyway, your best bet is probably just doing what you already figured out and bypassing all the plugin inserts, setting the appropriate Song Start/Song End points, and using the Batch Export. A bit of a pain but it really shouldn't take too long -- just go to the Mixer window and click on the Inserts State button on each track to deactivate it (looks like a square with a horizontal line coming out of each side). If the button is yellow, the inserts are bypassed.