the Philip Weinrobe mix session prep

Hi, @Nate_Pyfer!

We love @Philip_weinrobe. He's the best. I'm so glad you did his School of Song class! I did the same class a few years back, and it was life-changing.

Okay, diving into Mix Prep can be one of the more complicated things to tackle when you are first getting into SoundFlow, but it's super fun and rewarding as well!

The script Phil shows off in class uses code from this forum and the Store. Specifically, you'll want to check out @raphaelsepulveda's great package called Raphael Sepulveda Utilities and @Forrester_Savell's great Improved Strip Silence Package.

The process I would suggest:

• Go through a session, organize tracks by "food groups" (BASS, DRUMS, GTR...).
• Color each food group according to your desires.
• Create a group for each food group.
• Save a track preset for each food group, recalling only the track color and group.

This will allow you to use Raphael's excellent command "RS_Recall Track Preset" for each food group track preset for selected tracks:

You can add these commands to a deck if you'd like, or assign Keyboard Triggers, whatever you fancy.

I typically run the Improved Strip Silence script around this point and strip silence all the audio tracks in the session.

Next, I would create some macros like the following:

"RS_Move to New Folder" > "RS_Route Selected Tracks to Output"

You can add these commands to your deck and apply them manually, OR you can copy the command IDs and group names to the script shared here:

This script will "automate" the session prep process, like you probably saw in Phil's class.

Here's a video walking through these steps: