Hi,
 
I am a beginner with music creation and am having trouble correcting notes and timing once I´ve recorded them.  Now, each time I record instruments they are off beat and cannot be moved in order to correct the timing.  Could someone assist me with getting them on beat and changing the count so the interval can be adjusted?
 
Best Regards,
 
dwid

Welcome to the forum.
Audio or MIDI?

First of all... Welcome to the forums.
 
Now.... as Greg asked, we need to know if it's audio, midi or both.
 
I'll take a guess and say you are recording on a factory machine..... using the sound card from the factory and probably MME drivers.   You are likely experiencing latency (a delay) in the midi where it's delayed behind the audio or not synced with other midi tracks.  Nothing you do will fix it.  Yes?
 
 
 
If so..... factory sound cards and MME drivers are notorious for latency. You can try switching drivers and let the wave profiler run after the change.... but I think ultimately, a third party sound card solution is the best.
 
Once you record something, whether it's audio tracks or midi tracks, you should not have to edit it to get it synced to the rest of the music. It should play back exactly how you recorded it....totally synced to the rest of the music.
 
All of us here use either a firewire or USB based external interface running ASIO drivers.  With the proper soundcard/interface & ASIO driver combo, the software you have will run exactly like you expect it to. Everything running synced up, no latency, and ready to capture the ideas and music you play.
 
we'll see if we can help with a few suggestions, but for now, let us know about the tracks and the computer and sound card as well as the drivers you are using.

... that said, you should be able to move your recordings, whether midi or audio to align them (e.g. a guitar recording to your drum track) - either by hand (i.e. click-hold-dragging with the mouse when the move tool icon shows on mouse over) or by using the nudge feature, which has useful keyboard shortcuts:
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Select the clips and then use these.
 
For adjusting individual notes, you have to either change the track view to "notes" (there is a dropdown menu in the track header that may currently show "clips" - change that to "notes") to edit them or open the track in the piano roll view. In either of these views, you can drag around individual notes, or a selection of notes (lasso with rightclick-drag).
 
An important concept for both ways (clips or notes) is the snap function:
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If this is inactivated, you can move by any amount, if it is activated, notes or clips will snap in increments set by the snap tool -. click and hold the snap tool icon in the control bar to change the setting.
 

Agreed... you can slide the parts as needed in audio or midi by a simple click and drag, or using nudge to move it a few ticks....
 
But, that should not be the way you have to do it. With a proper interface, the tracks should be aligned to start with.
 
Then, split, cut, copy, paste, and drag, become editing tools to create interesting music.