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I am working with my vocalist and have been successfully tuning and timing our vocals to our satisfaction....<not the stones song> but our current track and have been spending a lot of time making sure things sound proper for our type of sound. I am puzzled at how to finalize and perhaps a pron order of work flow. I usually record the desired tracks and then time them with in the beds and then tune them. Now I have been trying to merge certain take(chorus..etc) to move around ,but I am wondering if pitch automation is rewritten into the new file. I dont think it is. So from here do I freeze to free up cpu or will merge do the trick. I would like to merge into stem tracks for further processing later....any pro tips would be great for work flow...The manual says everything about correction but what after that...
Thanks

Performing 'merge soundbites' on a soundbite with pitch automation will 'freeze' the automation into the new audio file - which is why all your automation seems to disappear, it's been rendered into the audio.

I usually do my tuning then duplicate the take and 'merge soundbites' in the new take. Then I can always go back to the original if I need to do more tweaking down the track. However, DP does use the same pre-rendering on pitch automation as on the plug-ins, so it should be pretty efficient with CPU anyway.

Thanks so much Mr Clifford thats what I wanted to hear