Source Sessions

These guidelines refer to usually retired sessions that contain the original source tracks (e.g. drum takes, vocal takes, strings) that have been comped or submixed down to tracks in the Master. These tracks are no longer needed so they are taken out of the Master session and kept in Source sessions for future reference.

There may be many Source sessions.
You may create a Source session for any tracks you would like to remove
from the Master session, but wish to keep copies of.

The session should be labeled with the song title, a description of the
tracks removed from the Master, and the word "Source" (e.g. "Song Title-
Ld Vox Source").
So the source tracks can be found later if changes need to be made.

The session should be saved to the Source Sessions folder.
Once a session is retired it should be removed from the top level of the
session folder to eliminate clutter and confusion regarding which session
is the current Master. We recommend using these folder names:

• Old Sessions – for all non-current sessions.
• Source Sessions – for all retired source tracks sessions.
• MIDI Files – tempo maps, MIDI sequence files, etc.
• Rough Mixes
• Final Mixes

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