Paste To Location, Not To Area.

[GTBannah]

Hello!

Why is it, that I can't paste to a location? Why do I have to select an area, before I paste?

I would like to be able to copy bars three and five, then paste them to bars nine and ten; between bars nine and eleven. Why do I have to select the area? Why can't I just put the cursor at bar nine, Cmd-V, BOOM! and move on?

What am I missing?

[john1192]

Originally Posted by GTBannah

Hello!

Why is it, that I can't paste to a location? Why do I have to select an area, before I paste?

I would like to be able to copy bars three and five, then paste them to bars nine and ten; between bars nine and eleven. Why do I have to select the area? Why can't I just put the cursor at bar nine, Cmd-V, BOOM! and move on?

What am I missing?

Spot Mode is one solution .. and i think there is a key command to place cursor at say bar 9 and then select what you wish to go there, .. but have to play with it unless someone knows right away .. standby having a beer and some pizza ..

[john1192]

so, if you put your cursor at bar Nine, and you already have your 2 bars cut & selected .. then just hold the Control key and click on the Clip .. Bam moves to Bat Nine

is this what you are looking for ???

[GTBannah]

Originally Posted by john1192

so, if you put your cursor at bar Nine, and you already have your 2 bars cut & selected .. then just hold the Control key and click on the Clip .. Bam moves to Bat Nine

is this what you are looking for ???

That's nice, if you're "cutting", even though, you'd have to move back and forth.
What I'm talking about is "copying", where you select bars three and four, Cmd-C, move the cursor to bar nine, Cmd-V, new material pasted at bar nine.

As it is now, I have to select bars nine and ten, then Cmd-V, or else nothing is pasted.

[john1192]

Originally Posted by GTBannah

That's nice, if you're "cutting", even though, you'd have to move back and forth.
What I'm talking about is "copying", where you select bars three and four, Cmd-C, move the cursor to bar nine, Cmd-V, new material pasted at bar nine.

As it is now, I have to select bars nine and ten, then Cmd-V, or else nothing is pasted.

then use Spot MOde ... bars three and four .. option Click in Spot MOde and it will Copy and Spot at the same time ..

maybe this is what you need

[GTBannah]

Thanx, for the suggestions, but, I think I'll continue selecting the area. Spot Mode takes longer.

Sonar, Sequoia, Nuendo .... they all operate the way Craig Anderton described sequencers, like musical word processors.

Select area, Ctrl-C, place cursor at new location, Ctrl-V, BOOM! Next?

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by GTBannah

Hello!

Why is it, that I can't paste to a location? Why do I have to select an area, before I paste?

I would like to be able to copy bars three and five, then paste them to bars nine and ten; between bars nine and eleven. Why do I have to select the area? Why can't I just put the cursor at bar nine, Cmd-V, BOOM! and move on?

What am I missing?

Not sure I follow. I do what you're describing all the time. What's in the clipboard gets pasted over what's there. Or if you're in Shuffle mode it gets inserted at the cursor and pushes everything else down the timeline.

You do have to make sure the cursor in on the same tracks that what you want to paste came from. For example, if I select 2 bars across 3 tracks and hit copy, I need to put the cursor at the bar position I want to paste them to on the same 3 tracks.

Make sense?

See gif.

[john1192]

Originally Posted by GTBannah

Thanx, for the suggestions, but, I think I'll continue selecting the area. Spot Mode takes longer.

Sonar, Sequoia, Nuendo .... they all operate the way Craig Anderton described sequencers, like musical word processors.

Select area, Ctrl-C, place cursor at new location, Ctrl-V, BOOM! Next?

thats does not seem what you asked .. this is straight copy and paste !!! and it works perfectly .. where did i mistake what you meant !!!

you said "Why do I have to select an area, before I paste?" when above you clearly say "Select area, Ctrl-C, place cursor at new location, Ctrl-V, BOOM! Next"

i am happy you are sorted but that was confusing ..

[GTBannah]

Originally Posted by john1192

thats does not seem what you asked .. this is straight copy and paste !!! and it works perfectly .. where did i mistake what you meant !!!

you said "Why do I have to select an area, before I paste?" when above you clearly say "Select area, Ctrl-C, place cursor at new location, Ctrl-V, BOOM! Next"

i am happy you are sorted but that was confusing ..

I'm saying how it works in the three applications I mentioned, and, that this is how I'm hoping to do it in Pro Tools.

[john1192]

Originally Posted by GTBannah

I'm saying how it works in the three applications I mentioned, and, that this is how I'm hoping to do it in Pro Tools.

ahhh .. that is how it works .. Select Section you wish to Copy .. CMD-C and the put your cursor where you wish to Paste and hit CMD-V ..

you can do exactly as you asked .. select bars 3-5, copy them CMD-C, the place your cursor at bar 9 and hit Paste CMD-V ..

you do not need to select bars 9-11 ..

am i still missing this ???