Can you delete tempo and chords tracks, or create a default edit without them?

[Kang]

When I set the new edit default to "Band Recording" I get a nice edit with just a grey Arranger track at the top. If I set up an edit any other way I get a slew of other grey tracks, like Tempo and Chords, which I don't use. Can I get rid of those? Can I get it so that new edits do not have them? (i.e. if I select "create new edit" from a top tab in waveform).

So, playing around with this before I posted and it appears I can't set up a edit from a template AT ALL, unless it's the very first edit in the project? Am I missing something? After I set up my first edit, if I try to do another it doesn't give any options it just goes to some standard default.

[pough]

I believe Templates are only applied when you make a new Project, not Edit. What I've done is create my own Layout and then select it when I create a new Edit.

Up at the top right there is a blue eye icon. It allows you to hide and un-hide the sections. Use that to set up a Layout that you like and then use the button beside the eye icon (two overlapping squares) to save your custom Layout. Next time you create a new edit, use that same button to load the Layout.

Layouts are just about which sections are visible. Unlike Templates, they don't include things like Tracks and plugins.

[spoontechnique]

I wish you could apply templates to edits in a project. Say you have one project, but in one edit you want to record and comp, and in another you want to mix.

Currently I use one template, copy the edit it generates, and tweak as needed.

[Kang]

That answers the question... Thanks.

So unfortunately I bit myself in the ass today and am pretty frustrated at moment. I had been working on edits then deleting the tracks and pulling in new tracks for a different song and save as... Was going fine until I saved (with no as) at the wrong time. Ok my bad, redo the edit (lost about an hour) and save as... again. All good. Well, turns out I had the old mistakenly saved edit as another tab so when I closed Waveform it re-saved it as the old edit. ARG!!!

I really really wish there was a way to allow only one edit at a time as I have no reason to work on more than one.

My main frustration is that I am restoring backups from yesterday night and they have the mistake I may TODAY on them? Is there something I am missing about how backups work?

[jabe]

One reason for having multiple Edits is the ability to nest them. So you might have a main edit, then a chorus edit, and a verse edit, and you can insert the chorus and verse ones as many times as you like into the main one. For example. But the insertion is only a reference. So if you want a change to your chorus, you just edit the chorus edit and when you play the main edit, each reference to the chorus edit plays the change.

[Kang]

One reason for having multiple Edits is the ability to nest them. So you might have a main edit, then a chorus edit, and a verse edit, and you can insert the chorus and verse ones as many times as you like into the main one. For example. But the insertion is only a reference. So if you want a change to your chorus, you just edit the chorus edit and when you play the main edit, each reference to the chorus edit plays the change.

Yeah I know there are probably a lot of uses for it, I'm just a one edit at a time type of guy. I was just a little salty. It's my own fault, I still don't have great edit management.

[Kang]

Update: It may not have been my fault after all. Vindicated!

Think I found a glitch. So If I have an edit, "song" and I make some changes and save as.. "song 1". Now I reopen "song" without closing "song 1" and WHALLA! You can scroll between tabs, but they are both just "song 1", so if you close "song" and hit save instead of discard changes, then you have effectively overwritten it. I think this is exactly what happened to me and I almost did it again tonight.

[pough]

Yeah, weird behaviour confirmed. There is entanglement of two edits.

1. Create an edit "Edit 1". Add a single MIDI clip in red. Save.
2. Save As... new edit "Edit 1 v2". Change MIDI clip to blue.
3. Open original edit "Edit 1". The MIDI clip is blue.