User Manual

NOTE AND AUTOMATION EDITING
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Using Cut, Copy and Paste
You can move or duplicate events using the Cut, Copy and Paste commands on the Edit menu or context menu.
• When you use Cut or Copy, the Song Position Pointer is automatically moved to the end of the selection.
This is very useful for repeating events, i.e. pasting the selection several times one after another in the song.
Pasting events outside an open clip
When you use the Paste command, the events will appear at the Song Position Pointer, on the original lane. Depend-
ing on the “Keep Events in Clip While Editing” setting in the Preferences dialog, the following rules apply:
• If the “Keep Events in Clip While Editing” option is active, the notes will belong to the open clip after they have
been pasted, but become masked since they are pasted outside the clip boundaries.
The clip position and length will remain unchanged.
• If "Keep Events in Clip While Editing" is deactivated and you paste notes outside the clip, the notes will be
placed in an existing clip - or in another new clip on the lane, depending on where you paste them.
The picture below shows three scenarios where three notes are being cut and pasted at different positions outside
the open clip with the “Keep Events in Clip While Editing” option off. We determine the paste positions by moving
the Song Position Pointer:
We’re going to cut the last three notes in the open clip
and paste at beat 3 in bar 5.
The open clip expands by the set Song/Block View
Snap value (1 bar) to fit in the pasted notes.
Here, we’re going to cut the last three notes in the open
clip and paste at beat 4 in bar 10.
The notes are pasted in the other existing clip at beat 4
in bar 10.
Here, we’re going to cut the last three notes in the open
clip and paste at beat 1 in bar 12.
A new clip is created at bar 12, with a length of the set
Snap value (1 bar), and the notes are pasted in beat 1.