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Let's say I use bake sound to f-curves function to bake my music file into an objects z location starting on frame 1. Let's say the file ends on frame 3000. So I will move my cursor on frame 3001 and start a new sound bake of a different music file.

This second files bakes itself onto my objects z location with frame 3001 being the start. But it overwrites my previous bake that was in between frames 1 to 3000 and leaves nothing behind.

How do I prevent this function from overwriting previously baked data?

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    could bake to a custom property and drive from it. https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/93164/15543 Or bake multiple actions with each sound baked from frame 1, then arrange_eg_ move start frame, using the NLA. – batFINGER Sep 08 '21 at 11:33

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As per @batFINGER answer and his provided link, it's possible to create a custom property, keyframe it and bake the sound into it.

I can therefore create prop and bake sound into it starting on frame 1.

Then I can create a prop1 and bake sound into it starting on frame 3000.

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Finally, I can add a driver onto my objects z location. Such driver should have two variables set to single property and its path has to be in a format ["property_name"]. Variable name can be anything and the drivers expression should sum the two variables by their names.

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