Nudge a project several measures ?

Select all the tracks and clips by double clicking several times until the entire project darkens (all tracks and clips selected) then simply drag them all to the right as far as needed. 

I would set the snap to grid setting to "measures" first so it moves to the closes measure line to keep everything lined up and synched to the internal metronome.

There shouldn't be a problem. If you have a lot of key changes, tempo changes, meter changes etc then you have to be carefull to move these accordingly.

You can either highlight everything with Ctrl+A and drag everything to the new location like Guitarhacker explained, or you can nudge with the keypad (7 and 9 defaults to Meassure if I recall correctly).

You can also go to the Project Menu - Insert Time/Meassures, set the numbers of Bars/ticks/Seconds/Frames at whatever position you like and make sure that all the check boxes are ticked so it slides Tempo Changes, Markers etc to the new position automaticly.

And finally, you can hit Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+X to cut everything, make sure that all available check boxes are selected, set Now Time to the position you want everything to start at and hit Ctrl+V.

Hope this helps

Guitarhacker


I always start my default projects on measure 3 anyway. It gives me 2 measures for count in and pick up notes. 

This is an excellent habit, I usually start my songs on bar 8 unless I have to deal with Video for which I will move the music/sounds to match video edits. But leaving some space in the start is great for when you have better ideas and need time at the start. And if you have some plugs that require some extreme plug in delay compensation you will avoid pops and lost notes etc when playing back as well as reverb tails in memory when bouncing out stuff.

Yeah... that was wicked good advice. I now know to leave a good hunk of space at the start of every project now if I happen to need it. Also the whole idea of effects and stuff having a chance to kick in before receiving any real input signals is something I never would have thought of but it makes perfect sense. Cheers!