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Working with projects
Editing parts and events
Using Cut, Copy and, Paste
You can cut or copy selected events, and paste them in again, using the functions on
the Edit menu.
• When you paste an audio event, it is inserted on the selected track, positioned so
that its snap point is aligned with the cursor position.
If the selected track is of the wrong type, the event will be inserted on its original
track. See
“The Snap function” on page 52 for information about the snap point.
• If you use the “Paste at Origin” function on the Function submenu of the Edit
menu, the event is pasted at its original position (the position from which you cut or
copied it).
Renaming events
By default, audio events show the name of their clip, but you can enter a separate
descriptive name for separate events if you like. This is done by selecting the event
and typing in a new name in the “Description” field on the info line.
• You can also give all events on a track the same name as the track by changing the
track name, holding down a modifier key and pressing [Return].
See “Audio handling” on page 69.
Splitting events
You can split events in the Project window in the following ways:
• Click with the Cut tool on the event you want to split.
If Snap is activated, this determines the exact split position (see “The Snap
function” on page 52). You can also split events by pressing [Alt]/[Option] and
clicking with the Object Selection tool.
• Select “Split at Cursor” from the Edit menu, Functions submenu.
This splits the selected events at the position of the project cursor. If no events are
selected, all events (on all tracks) that are intersected by the project cursor will be
split.
• Select “Split Loop” from the Edit menu, Functions submenu.
This splits events on all tracks at the left and right locator positions.
Ö If you split a MIDI part so that the split position intersects one or several MIDI notes,
the result depends on the “Split MIDI Events” option in the Preferences dialog
(Editing–MIDI page). If the option is activated, the intersected notes will be split
(creating new notes at the beginning of the second part). If it is deactivated, the notes
will remain in the first part, but “stick out” after the end of the part.
Gluing events together
You can glue events together using the Glue tool. There are three possibilities:
• Clicking on an event with the Glue tool glues it together with the next event on the
track. The events do not have to touch one another.
The result is a part containing the two events, with one exception: If you first split
an event and then glue the two sections together again (without moving or editing
them first), they become a single event again.
• You can select several events on the same track and click on one of them with the
Glue tool.
A single part is created.