Dragging all my tracks

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2015/07/20 11:00:16 (permalink)

Dragging all my tracks

So I have this song, like 11 tracks of MIDI and Audio. Somehow at some point when dragging it all (literally all of it) over a few bars to make room for an intro, something must have not been fully trimmed, and it all was moved not to the start of the bar I dragged it to but a little bit past it.
 
This makes it a little hard to work with since not everything is lined up by bars, but when I select all and try to drag it all back a little bit, it drags a copy. I don't have CTRL held down, and it's not stuck or anything. If I drag one track back it works fine. But dragging all at once is dragging a copy.
 
Any idea why this is? Also, maybe there's some much easier way that I don't know about that will take everything and move it to a different starting bar (I basically want bar 2 to be my starting point so that if there's a few milliseconds of air before the guitar in my audio parts they'll have that breathing room before bar 2... then everything is fine from there).
 
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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 11:06:27 (permalink)
    The best way is to go Project > Insert Time/Measures

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 11:09:50 (permalink)
    If I do that I'm still left with everything starting a little past the measure. Although I didn't know about the insert measure feature and that's good to know :-) Thanks. But that doesn't solve the issue. Set Measure/Beat At Now ALMOST does what I need, however it seems to mess everything up (unquantizes things that are quantized, moves things off their beats... it's really weird... but it does start measure 2 where 2:2:000 (my first note) is. Which is what I need, but again, it then seems to throw everything off, and not in any kind of predictable, 1 beat off way... its like moves things off by decimal points.

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 11:49:37 (permalink)
    If it's only 11 tracks, why not drag them back one at a time?
     
    It's not a super elegant solution but seeing as select all doesn't seem to work, I'd give that a shot.
     
    BTW, I wouldn't mess around with Set Measure/Beat At Now - it can really screw your timing up unless you know precisely what you're doing (and why).

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 11:56:51 (permalink)
    yea it would just be such a pain to move each track back (especially the audio tracks since they don't start exactly on the first beat of a measure). there's gotta be a more precise way of doing it i'd imagine? just set one track as the track that's meant to start at beat 1 and have the others follow it? i don't know.
     
    luckily for this particular song i was able to make do with it being off the measures (I only needed to add one extra track of piano and i just dealt with it).

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 12:09:56 (permalink)
    If all of your clips start at the same point it's a bit easier.
    Just select the clip, position the now time where you want it pasted, then Edit > Cut & Edit > Paste (or ctrl + x, ctrl + v)

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 12:10:06 (permalink)
    If all of your clips start at the same point it's a bit easier.
    Just select the clip, position the now time where you want it pasted, then Edit > Cut & Edit > Paste (or ctrl + x, ctrl + v)

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 12:10:26 (permalink)
    oh btw i should say, in the past i have definitely moved all the tracks one by one when i've run into this situation before. so if it's a must, that's what it will be. i just figure there's gotta be an easier way... honestly the initial thing i mentioned, it automatically dragging a copy of all the tracks even though i don't have CTRL held down... if I could figure that out I think it would fix it. cause it moved them all to where i wanted... only it moved a copy for some strange reason...

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/20 12:12:37 (permalink)
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    If all of your clips start at the same point it's a bit easier.
    Just select the clip, position the now time where you want it pasted, then Edit > Cut & Edit > Paste (or ctrl + x, ctrl + v)




    See that's the problem... If it was all MIDI i'd be able to do that,but the audio tracks don't start right at like x:1:000. If I cut them right there there's usually that little bit of live instrument breathing that gets cut off. I suppose a round about way would be to just select the MIDI tracks and do that and then I'd only be stuck moving the audio tracks one by one...

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/23 14:38:06 (permalink)
    you need to snap to measures ("move by" not "move to"), so when you drag clips they stay at the right timing (based on measure lines)

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    Re: Dragging all my tracks 2015/07/23 14:52:05 (permalink)
    You mean you guys have musicians that can play to a beat?  Tell myself to put the pistol away, then, and hope for better times.
     
    I got 6 tracks and can't for the life of me get them sounding right.  And all I wanted was another 12 bars after the guitar solo for a trombone solo.

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