The autosizing can be both a huge pain and a blessing.

If you insert a block of a smaller length, then any longer blocks are sized to display proportionally longer. Either you won’t care at all, or this will make you leap out of your chair with excitement.Īnother interesting aspect of Songs is that, as you can see in the image above, it’s autosizing.

Merge tracks with identical names - I’ll leave this to your imagination.

That’s already a workflow enhancer, but if you want to extract the markers from the chunks in your song then you can “Merge Markers” to extract all of the song’s chunk’s markers to the song itself.

Markers - The song window has its own markers.

I use it for doing dialogue/sfx and it’s amazing for that as well. Massive workflow enhancement for orchestral-type production. This allows you to quickly record parts from the song window without switching contexts.

Sequences can be record-enabled from the song window - A sequence can be set as active/record-enabled directly from the song window.

The column based setup also allows for seamless mixing of time signatures. If you need to ‘insert a column’ for spacing then that’s done accurately and precisely with a single command. If you’re working with a bunch of 1-bar parts then you don’t need to mess with your zoom resolution anymore than if you’re working with 3 minute sequences.

The timeline is column based, not time based - The timeline automatically changes its resolution based on what’s already in the song.

Songs can be merged into a sequence - You can create a sequence of sequences/songs, then turn that into a sequence itself.

If that were all, then it’d be incredibly useful, but there’s some rabbits in the hat: It’s a sequencer for your sequences, and a sequencer for other songs. They are sequencable despite varying time signatures and the song window has its own master conductor track for tempo changes. Songs allow you to order sequences and other songs for playback. Songs are the solution to all of your woes.

The layer of indirection provided by busses allows you to quickly choose what a V-Rack aux takes audio from, or to easily choose what tracks are sending to.īut then how do you put those sequences together? Songs The V-Rack utilizes this system the same as anything else.

V-Racks utilize DP’s audio bussing system. Drums in one sequence, Horns in another sequence, Synths in yet another, but you want each of these sequences to use the same master fader, share some effects paths and possible access the same instruments. Maybe you want to work on your track in parts. Perhaps you want to keep all of your songs in the same project, but have one master fader that applies to all of them? Maybe you have shared instruments between projects and want to keep the same sound/settings when youswitch to another project? Maybe have the same reverb or effects available? A V-Rack allows you to have tracks that exist outside of a sequence, thereby allowing multiple sequences to utilize those V-Rack tracks.

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