DP 9. What happened to highlight, copy, paste? Workaround fd

[Timeline]

OK, I get that the timeline curser is the new pointer for paste BUT dam I use highlight copy and paste into the same position every day so I can bump the audio forward and back quickly.

That function should NOT have changed and it should be as it was.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Not sure what you mean. I can highlight audio in a track, copy, then highlight the destination and paste.

Am I not understanding the issue; or are you talking about something else?

[Timeline]

Thats not exactly what I do. I will take a line of vocal, highlight it, then copy immediately and without another move, paste into the the SAME spot to instantly separate it from the rest of the track, then move it front or back to a proper sync point using the L-R arrows. This is fast and efficient and required two moves only.

Now by connecting to the bar there are three.

Before you paste you now must immediately either RE-highlight same section, (messy), or locate the timeline bar and redundantly place it over the front of the copied bite, then paste, which takes allot more time when you doing this over and over.

All they would have to do is leave the timeline positioner programmed as they have in 9 but remove the timeline positioner when highlighting a sound bite to the way it was in 8.

Anyway they totally screwed my workflow for vocal realignment.

Hope this is clear

[buzzsmith]

I'll try that later. Another way is to drag across the audio to select and then use Command-Y. That separates that section from the track and leaves it in place.

(Still having my morning coffee and the studio is not online, yet. If I have the Command Combo wrong, I'll come back and edit!)


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[Timeline]

Really? Command Y. •••• I'll give that a try right now.

[mikehalloran]

Thats not exactly what I do. I will take a line of vocal, highlight it, then copy immediately and without another move, paste into the the SAME spot to instantly separate it from the rest of the track, then move it front or back to a proper sync point using the L-R arrows. This is fast and efficient and required two moves only.

Me too—I'll hate it if that's broken. Won't be able to check this till the evening, though.

[Timeline]

Yes its changed but actually, command Y works even better.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT SUGGESTION BUZZ MAN

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I probably hit Cmd-y more than any other key when editing audio.

[Timeline]

I will be joining you now.

[Guitar Gaz]

I probably hit Cmd-y more than any other key when editing audio.

Yes - couldn't do without that shortcut.

[buzzsmith]

Yes its changed but actually, command Y works even better.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT SUGGESTION BUZZ MAN

You are quite welcome!

Buzzy


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[waterstrum]

Command-Y?
That is the "split" command.
I use it every day, many times.
I have a dedicated button on my extra buttons that just does that.
Seems like a normal part of workflow.
Not sure why this would be a mystery or a revelation.

I'm still confused about the original poster's request.
Is this what he is asking for?
His request seemed more complicated.

[Shooshie]

Are you [Timeline] saying that DP now de-selects your range as soon as you perform an operation such as Copy or Paste?

While Split, Snip, and other commands are essential, so is the ability to maintain a selection. Selections are what DP's workflows are based on. Selections are our "Regions."

I haven't tested for that, and I can't right now, but I need to look into that. There's a key (Command-D) for de-selecting, and your selection should be maintained until you hit that command or click outside of your selection without holding down SHIFT. That's an unwarranted change, if indeed it's that way on all our systems.

I'll be checking for that. If it has been changed, we need to report that en-masse to MOTU.

Shoosh

[Timeline]

Hi Shoosh,

It has changed as I described and several other paste changes now occur which I have been finding, one of them is,

Once you have separated the bite using comment Y and copied it, even if you highlight a small section (on another track to re paste into), if the highlighted section is not the same width as the copied bite, it randomly pastes into the original track in front of or behind it. The only way I was able to paste into the same place or to another track was to manually separate front and back, then it would past over it. It's definitely screwed up in my opinion. Also sometimes the bar positioning does NOT set the placement of the paste. ???

Lets say in a group of 4 background vocals with different parts, harmonies, and you want to paste the best performed BG voc (as a bite) into a repeating section ahead so you roll ahead and highlight the place you wish to paste over and its not separated from the track, it does not work unless you have erased front and back of that place or used command Y to separate it again. NOT like 8

Please let me know what you find.

[Phil O]

Once you have separated the bite using comment Y and copied it, even if you highlight a small section (on another track to re paste into), if the highlighted section is not the same width as the copied bite, it randomly pastes into the original track in front of or behind it. The only way I was able to paste into the same place or to another track was to manually separate front and back, then it would past over it.

I'm not able to reproduce this behavior. Seems to be working as expected on my system. Perhaps I'm not doing it exactly the same way as you. Dunno.

Phil