Opening LE projects in PT Free

[doctorfish]

Greetings.

I know I can only open 8 tracks
at once in PT Free. I have no problem with
this except my friend is sending me some
projects made is LE and I will add some bass
and keys to these. I've done it before where
I just opened the first 8 tracks (he left
track 8 free for the bass) of the LE
project and didn't bother with the rest. I
just added bass and sent the bass tracks back
to him.

Since I am going to be adding keys I got to
thinking if there were any way to open tracks
9 and beyond by just deleting the first 8
tracks after rendering them in a basic sub-
mix. I'd like to be able to hear all the
guitars and extra percussion he's recorded
already.

Is this even possible, or do I need to have
him just send me a basic complete mix?
Any suggestions are much appreciated.

thanks in advance

doctorfish

[BagHun]

Since he's just going to add what you do for him to his session, he might as well just send you a stereo (or even mono) mix. That would leave you 6 or 7 tracks to fill.

[SoundWrangler]

When you fill up all your trks, bounce to disk (mono/splitstereo) & choose Re-import Into Session after Bounce. Then you can delete the source tracks (maybe after Saving Session As..., hmmm?) & drag the bounce file out into a track. Bounced files are time-stamped, so if Region shouldn't begin at session start, switch to Spot mode, click Region with Grabber, click Original Time Stamp button.

[knightshow]

Just keep bouncing until you're done. This is a convinient technique for other programs as well... or for programs that eat up a lot of memory when you add more tracks. The only program that doesn't need this is Cool Edit Pro, which creates a stereo submix on the fly, so you can have all 64 tracks without the computer even flinching.

Nick www.pernisco.com (http://www.pernisco.com) www.knightshow.net (http://www.knightshow.net)