User`s guide

Chapter 15: Working with Regions and Selections 193
Copying and Pasting Automation
Following are two special functions for
copying and pasting automation data.
◆ To copy all automation playlists for a
track, press Control (Macintosh) or the
Start key (Windows) when copying from
any of the track’s automation playlists.
This special function also works across
multiple tracks.
◆ To paste from one type of automation
playlist to another similar playlist (for in-
stance, from a volume playlist to a send
level playlist), press Control (Macintosh) or
the Start key (Windows) when pasting.
For more information on working with au-
tomation data, see Chapter 21: Automation.
Editing across Multiple Tracks
When working with data from multiple
tracks, there are some important points to
remember.
For instance, if any of the selected tracks
are set to display audio or MIDI regions (or
MIDI notes), edits affect not only MIDI and
audio for the selected tracks, but all auto-
mation and controller data as well.
If all selected tracks are displayed as auto-
mation data, edits only affect the type of
automation data displayed in each track.
Thus, if track 1 displays Pan automation,
track 2 displays Volume automation, and
track 3 displays Mute automation, the Cut
command cuts only pan data from track 1,
volume data from track 2, and mute data
from track 3.
✽ For details on selecting data on multiple
tracks, see “Making a Selection Across Multi-
ple Tracks” on page 167.
When copying only automation or con-
troller data for selected tracks, press Con-
trol (Macintosh) or the Start key (Win-
dows) to copy all types of automation on
all selected tracks.
To paste to multiple tracks, place the inser-
tion point in each of the destination tracks
by Shift-clicking in them—or to select all
tracks, Option-Shift-click (Macintosh) or
Alt-Shift-click (WIndows) in a track, or
make a selection in one of the Timebase
Rulers.
When you paste multiple types of data,
whatever data has been copied is pasted
into the correct type of playlist. Automa-
tion data is pasted into the appropriate au-
tomation playlist (pan, volume, mute and
so on). Audio/MIDI data is pasted into the
audio/MIDI playlist. You don’t need to set
target tracks to the specific type of data be-
ing pasted for the paste to work correctly.
If all destination tracks in a multitrack
paste are displayed as automation, the
paste replaces any previous data on the tar-
get track without shuffling—regardless of
whether you are in Slip or Shuffle mode.
Tracks displayed in different data formats