Recording is certainly no small feat.
Wouldn’t you agree? You have to find the best spot in your room to record, set up your gear, your microphones, and then actually perform.
While I’m sure we’d both love to own the “One Take Wonder” title, it’s never that simple.
It’s much easier (and smarter) to lay down a couple of different takes. Because then you can pick your absolute favorite bits from each take to create the ultimate take.
The pros do this all the time. They scrutinize every word and phrase. Looking for that *one* bit that stands above the rest with emotion, style, and performance.
And then they comp those best bits together as if they were all recorded like a One Take Wonder.
Logic’s Take Folder system for picking and choosing your favorite takes is truly a jewel in the Logic crown. And to be honest, I’m a little embarrassed that WLPR has never covered them in the last 2 years.
So today I’d like to right this wrong and cover in great detail what makes Take Folders so special.
We’ll talk about:
- The Ease of Quick Swipe Comping
- How to Edit and Move Around Takes within a Take Folder
- How easy it is to use Flex Time inside a Take Folder
- How to preserve your carefully selected Comps so you don’t lose them when you record more Takes
- How to move Takes outside of a Take Folder
And much more. It’s a doozie of a video. But if you ever needed to know more about Take Folders, today’s post is for you.
Just wanted to say Thank You for all these great videos you provide. They are super helpful.
You bet Joe! Thanks for being a reader 🙂
wow, we talked about this a week or two ago as I asked about this topic, and now, boom. Impressive. your responsiveness is well worth the price of admission. recording is such a time intensive feat for me, as a part time musician, so it’s so important to have clear, concise educational videos to facilitate the flow of the process. you make great videos on a great topic. thanks!
Michael Susano
ps one of the most helpful vids for a beginner in the LPX world for me also has been the ‘organization’ video. where to put things, keeping organized, I’m also trying to work with an external hard drive, to keep the main drive unencumbered as much as possible. cheers!
You bet Michael! And thanks for requesting. There were a number of emails regarding Take Folders in a short period of time, so clearly a topic that needed covering 🙂
What another great video. Like Chris, I keep my Take Folders right up to the end of a project, just in case someone wants to go back and revisit a take. But even I did not know about the Duplicate feature or the copy and edit function. This is going to dramatically change my workflow, even on a project Im mixing right now.
If youre like me and want to drill down deep into LPX’s most detailed functions and features, then you need to be a subscriber to this site. Each week Chris gives us these awesome ‘nuggets of gold’ which makes LPX life easy and fun. This is the only site Im paying close attention to these days because I actually keep learning more cool features about LPX that impact my daily production–proof that an old dog can still learn new tricks.
Seriously Chris–you rock.
Thanks Jimmy! I know, for me that duplicate Comp feature was like, “whaaaaaat?! Thank god!” Appreciate the kind words 🙂
Hi Chris, is there any chance you could cover recording into those ‘take folders’?
Kind thoughts Dave
Hi David! Sure, what is it you feel you need clarification about when it comes to recording in Take Folders?