[infiniteposse]

Hi all-

I've been tracking a band lately and we're doing lots of takes of multiple mics simultaneously - say 4 mics on a upright bass. The way I normally work in Logic is to create my tracks (for each mic) in the Arrange page and then just manually duplicate them if we need to keep takes and record more to see if we can get a better take and/or get more to comp with later. Doing this process manually is super time consuming though and leaves me clicking around creating tracks and then shifting them into the proper place so that all of the tracks are grouped the same as the other takes...

Is there an easier way to do this that allows each track to have a "nest" with the various overdubs underneath, thus creating less clutter on the arrange page and also a more efficient workflow for quick "ok, let's get this again" moments? Two of the musicians over last night said that they'd done this kind of thing in DP and in Cubase before and that the process was called "virtual tracks" or "takes." Does Logic offer this kind of function somewhere inside it's big beady brain?

How do you guys do this? I looked through the Arrange section of the manual last night and couldn't find anything.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Lee