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Lydian

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What Is Overdubbing?
« on: May 11, 2016, 04:06:13 pm »
What is overdubbing?

Most places explain it really badly. I don't get it. Could someone clarify?
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Re: What Is Overdubbing?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2016, 07:08:16 pm »
Here you can see a 3 minute midi overdub video of reaper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAvL3Xq2ZI

It means you can record midi on top of an existing midifile, without erasing the previous recording.

Overdub can also be done with audio. But the difference is that the previous audio will be erased. So imagine you play a chord progression on guitar and 1 chord is wrong; you can overdub (re-record) only that chord and the wrong chord will be replaced.
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Re: What Is Overdubbing?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2016, 07:20:52 pm »
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.

That makes so much more sense. I don't get why people couldn't have just said that in their videos.

Thankfully logic pro x has a pretty good comping feature which makes overdubbing incredibly easy. Thanks for the clarification!
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