Easy way to add bars to a song.

[lucidlife]

Hey guys!

So, I imported my stems from a song I made in maschine, into pt 12! (I'm loving it btw), and I decided that a few bars into the song, (16, or 24, can't remember) I want to copy, and paste another 8 bars into it, but only from a few parts of the song. I don't want to paste all of it. So I want add bars to most of the tracks, but not all of them, cause I feel like I have an instrument come in too early, and the build up is too quick.

I hope I explained this well enough.

So, I'm wondering if anyone has some cool tips I can use to do this!

Thanks!

[polyh3dron]

Should be simple enough, set the tempo in Pro Tools to match what it was in Maschine, set your Grid to 1 bar, activate Grid Mode, activate the "ALL" edit group, highlight the desired bar(s) you want to copy, and paste them wherever you want.

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by lucidlife

Hey guys!

So, I imported my stems from a song I made in maschine, into pt 12! (I'm loving it btw), and I decided that a few bars into the song, (16, or 24, can't remember) I want to copy, and paste another 8 bars into it, but only from a few parts of the song. I don't want to paste all of it. So I want add bars to most of the tracks, but not all of them, cause I feel like I have an instrument come in too early, and the build up is too quick.

I hope I explained this well enough.

So, I'm wondering if anyone has some cool tips I can use to do this!

Thanks!

There's a few ways to do it. One would be to use the "Insert Time" command from the Event menu to insert the bars you want, then you can simply copy/paste the tracks you want.

You could also use copy/paste while in Shuffle Mode which will move everything to the right in the timeline when you paste.

[lucidlife]

Great, I'll give these a try. Thanks guys!

[lucidlife]

Originally Posted by polyh3dron

Should be simple enough, set the tempo in Pro Tools to match what it was in Maschine, set your Grid to 1 bar, activate Grid Mode, activate the "ALL" edit group, highlight the desired bar(s) you want to copy, and paste them wherever you want.

Not sure if I'm following this method.
1.Tempo set, and grid mode on. Set to 1 bar.
2. clicked on "ALL" in groups window.
3. ? I went to do make my edits, but everything was selected. Tried highlighting the tracks I wanted, but got same result.

[cwsand]

Hi, You should read up on it in the Reference Manual, or check out some YouTube tutorials. It's not difficult, but probably easier to do if you actually see how. One suggestion - select the sections you want to paste and hit Command+E which will create breakpoints and new clips at the boundaries. Then you can move them around or copy/paste them. (Command+H will "heal" the edits)

[lucidlife]

Hey! Was able to keep messing around and figure it out. Haha yea the reference manual is a big book to handle. Figured I'd get better help from this. Next time I'll go to the reference manual first!

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by lucidlife

Hey! Was able to keep messing around and figure it out. Haha yea the reference manual is a big book to handle. Figured I'd get better help from this. Next time I'll go to the reference manual first!

So, which method offered in this thread did you end up using?

[polyh3dron]

Originally Posted by lucidlife

Not sure if I'm following this method.
1.Tempo set, and grid mode on. Set to 1 bar.
2. clicked on "ALL" in groups window.
3. ? I went to do make my edits, but everything was selected. Tried highlighting the tracks I wanted, but got same result.

Well yeah, if you only want to do an edit to a certain track, turn the ALL group off.