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Hi everyone,
I've used DP for a long time now and being 'fluent' in a few DAWs,
I have a question now that I can't seem to find a workaround for.

My main gripe/question right now is..

How do i 'physically' lock Audio tracks/stems in one place?
This is NOT locking to SMPTE and not with regards to conductor track, etc.
But more so that I don't accidentally touch a track while I'm editing and shift it a little bit.

In other DAWs when you lock a track, it locks it physically as well as to SMPTE, which.. makes sense if you know what i mean.
and you can't move those tracks around anymore.
But not in DP..

Am I missing something? I've searched high and low and typed sound bites instead of audio tracks, etc..

Thanks =)

I don't think you;re missing anything. Lock in DP doesn't actually prevent editing in my experience either. What I will do when I know I want certain tracks untouched is select them and from the contextual menu, place them in a folder. Then I close the folder and forget about them.

If I'm editing in the SE, I tend to use the track selector so I'm only viewing the tracks I'm working on, since if I can't see 'em, I can't edit or nudge them by mistake. I also often set user timestamps for sync soundbites, so if I nudge them inadvertently I can put them back in place quite easily.

Never was an issue for me either, but if you want to play it ultra-safe, you could duplicate the take, select the whole track and merge the audio. You'll get a new soundbite for the whole thing that has a timestamp and everything. If you select the track top to bottom it'll even start at the top of the sequence even if it's silence for a while, making it even safer. Your edits remain accessible on the original take. Just a thought.