what am I missing here? transient markers vs. inline PRV

I have two adjacent tracks. One is an audio track with a bass line. The other is a session drummer midi track. During a breakdown, I have a bass drum that is showing up a little early. I wanted to move some of the hits to the bass transients. I open up audio snap on the bass track so transients will display. My intent here is to use these as markers, I don't want to move the them. Now I can see where to move the bass drum hits to. But I can't. I can't select the notes to do anything to them. I suspect it has to do with linked clips and take lanes, both of which I'm using. How do I clean up take lanes so they are all on one track once I'm happy with them, and how can I tell what is linked to what. This is a project that I set aside for awhile and I just don't remember how I compiled them in the first place. You can forget the help files, I don't think I have ever found a solution to anything from them. They seem to tell WHAT you can do , but not HOW to do it. Occasionally throwing in the SEE ALSO so you can find out other things you can do but not how to do them either. We're talking about maybe 30 seconds worth of material and about six  or eight bass drum hits that are sinking this ship.

Check that the data in the clip isn't locked. Use the clip inspector or right click menu to do that.

You didn't think I would give up that easily? I didn't. I tried linking and unlinking clips , flattening the comps and everything. Solution? I thought maybe it has something to do with the step sequencer, 'cuz even when I unlinked everything, there still were notes "missing" but sounding. Somehow the "bad" clips all seemed tied in with the step sequencer. Opened up step sequencer, I backed up the offending bass drum one 16th and voila'. I don't know if that's buggish behavior or if I don't truly understand "the power" of being able to draw out long clips from short ones, but the solution worked! The kicker? I don't know if I like it better or not. The new note sits in the pocket better, but the anticipated note had more "urgency". At least now I have a choice.

Now you tell me! That's ok, because this time  the note I needed to move lined up nicely with the next 16th note. I will have to be mindful of this for next time, though. Another thing I noticed is that even when clips were no longer linked, you still couldn't see the individual notes in PRV or track view. They show up as clips, but not individual notes.
That kind of kills the whole point of unlinking clips, doesn't it? Or maybe that's another thing tied to the step sequencer, I don't know. Still, despite it's limitations with editing, the step sequencer is hard to beat, for someone like me ,who worked with drum machines extensively.
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