How to insert a whole mix right before another?

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I wrote a new song which in my recording and tracking starts immediately at 00:00 in the .SNG file.

I tracked and composed a 1:10 introduction which I’d like to not only place BEFORE the first note of the song, I also want the first note of the song to start DURING the fade-out of the intro.

How do I do this in nTrack?

For my song “Save Me” I inserted 5 seconds of silence at the start of the mix, then imported a new .WAV that started at 00:00 (a spoken clip from “Citizen Kane”). The first note of the actual song starts at 00:04 or so.

But that was just one track - my intro has 7 tracks.

Should I mixdown the intro to a stereo .WAV and import that into 1:10 worth of silence at the beginning of the song, so they overlap?

Or does someone have a better suggestion?

thanks! :D

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Import your intro into new tracks (either as a mixdown or individually) and then just move your main track forward along the time line until you like it. Easy.
HTH

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You can do the mixdown method as you’ve already suggested. Or, you can just open your new 7 files (from the intro), then multi-select the other tracks (Shift-Left click me thinks), then holding the Ctrl key, drag the tracks to the right to give you some space at the beginning for your 7 newly added tracks.

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Cool! Thanks for your input!!

I actually went ahead and tried to answer my own question and did a slightly different method than you described above, but I appreciate that input because I might use that later on.
I like the flexibility of still being able to edit individual tracks in the intro later on.

What I did:

Since I knew my intro was exactly 1:13, and I only wanted the full song to come in on the last second of the intro, and I was happy enough with the mix, I:

* Mixed-down the intro to a stereo .WAV
* Went to “Edit” and selected “Insert” of the full song’s .SNG file
* Inserted silence from 0:00.0 to 1:12.0 - on “All Tracks” - Non-Destructive
* All 13 or so tracks moved to the right to start at 1:12
* Imported the stereo .WAV of the intro

That’s it!
I do have a related question that I put on another thread. Thanks again!