Problem extending a region

[David Eagle]

Well I was rather pleased with myself as I managed to assemble a very nice take from a few vocal takes. I split a region at the point where I wanted to make a change and used command shift up and down to select my takes. And continued doing that until the end of the project. But now I run into a problem. There is one bit where I want to extend my region start, as there is a breath that’s truncated. So I move my playhead to the point I want, and press command left bracket to set the region start to the playhead. Selecting my region first of course. This usually extends the audio, but it’s not doing that. It just extends the region, but there’s silence. I can’t seemingly extend any of my regions out in either direction. My only solution is I’ve found is to paste the audio back in from the finder and then assemble it that way, but this seems very silly. My other tracks work fine, and I can extend the regions as much as I want. It took me ten minutes to assemble the take, and it’s taken me two hours to try and fix this tiny truncated breath issue. Am I meant to press a comp button or something when I’ve assembled my takes. I’m not finding anything. I didn’t want to flatten the take folder as I thought that would loose all my takes, and it would be nice to have the option of changing my mind with a take decision if I really wanted to. Any ideas? Thanks.

[David Eagle]

Also, I notice that many of my region options aren’t available like fades. When I flatten the track, there are various overlapping bits of audio, which I’m not hearing when the track isn’t flattened. The odd part about this is that I have everything exactly how I want it, apart from this one breath, but if I flatten the track, the whole thing is a complete mess. Coming from reaper, I’m used to splitting items, changing to the take that I want, and then I can just grow and shrink those items or move them about. But Logic seems to be unhappy with me playing all fancy free with its precious take structure or something. Region editing works great, but seems to be acting like a petulant child if I start involving takes. Anyway, time for bed. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a renewed sense of optimism. 

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 00:28, David Eagle <onlin...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Well I was rather pleased with myself as I managed to assemble a very nice take from a few vocal takes. I split a region at the point where I wanted to make a change and used command shift up and down to select my takes. And continued doing that until the end of the project. But now I run into a problem. There is one bit where I want to extend my region start, as there is a breath that’s truncated. So I move my playhead to the point I want, and press command left bracket to set the region start to the playhead. Selecting my region first of course. This usually extends the audio, but it’s not doing that. It just extends the region, but there’s silence. I can’t seemingly extend any of my regions out in either direction. My only solution is I’ve found is to paste the audio back in from the finder and then assemble it that way, but this seems very silly. My other tracks work fine, and I can extend the regions as much as I want. It took me ten minutes to assemble the take, and it’s taken me two hours to try and fix this tiny truncated breath issue. Am I meant to press a comp button or something when I’ve assembled my takes. I’m not finding anything. I didn’t want to flatten the take folder as I thought that would loose all my takes, and it would be nice to have the option of changing my mind with a take decision if I really wanted to. Any ideas? Thanks.

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[TheOreoMonster]

Flatten the takes before you do any gain fades, or changing region start or end.. Yes reaper does some Voodoo like letting you item gain a MIDI item or some of the  things you discuss but not all DAWs has magical powers in that regards

The thing to be aware of when flattening take folders if you gotta make  sure you have all the regions or take folders on the track selected. Or at least the ones you want to flatten that doesn’t have overlapping regions. 

You can select all the regions on a track with Shift A, flatten with option shift U and then you should be able to extend the region with the truncated breath.

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[David Eagle]

Ah, OK, so I suppose the workflow should be, make your take selections by splitting your regions and choosing your take, then duplicate that track, including track contents. Then flatten the track. This means you have a backup of your takes if you do need to change your mind about which take you want to use at any given point. Does that sound about right?

Fortunately I’ve rescued my project and can move on with my life.

Thanks.

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[TheOreoMonster]

That's one way of doing it. Another way is to make sure you have all regions selected then use the Move Active Take or Comp to New Track command Control Option N. That will move all your currently selected takes to the new track . This moves them out of the take folder. And saves the step of duplicating the track then flattening it. This also leaves the take folder in tact with unused takes in case you want to go through and use the remaining takes for doubles or etc.

You can alternatively use the Export Active Take or Comp to New Track command Control Option Shift N, which  exports a copy of the active or currently selected  takes to a new track but leaves them intact in the take folder. This is the same as duplicating the track and contents and then flattening  except done in one key command instead of two.

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