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).
 
Thanks

The best way is to go Project > Insert Time/Measures

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.

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).

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).

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)

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)

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...

Bristol_Jonesey
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...

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)