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The Project window
• Use the Nudge buttons in the toolbar.
These move the selected events to the left or right. The amount of move-
ment depends on the selected display format (see “The Project Setup di-
alog” on page 35) and the value set on the Grid pop-up menu.
Here, clicking this button will move the event 2 frames to the right.
Ö The Nudge buttons are not visible in the toolbar by de-
fault.
You can decide which items should be visible by right-clicking in the
toolbar and checking them in the pop-up menu that appears. See “The
Setup dialogs” on page 466 for more information.
Duplicating events
Events can be duplicated in the following ways:
• Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the event to a new
position.
If Snap is activated, this determines to which positions you can copy the
events (see “Snap” on page 56).
• Audio and MIDI parts can also be duplicated by press-
ing [Alt]/[Option] + [Shift] and dragging.
This creates a shared copy of the part. If you edit the contents of a
shared copy, all other shared copies of the same part are automatically
edited in the same way.
Shared copies are indicated by showing the name in italic text and an
icon in the right corner of the part.
Note:
• When you duplicate audio events, the copies are al-
ways shared. This means that shared copies of audio
events always refer to the same audio clip (see “Audio
processing” on page 217).
• You can convert a shared copy to a real copy by select-
ing “Convert to Real Copy” from the Edit menu. This cre-
ates a new version of the clip (that can be edited indepen-
dently) and adds this to the Pool. Note that no new files are
created by this operation – for that you need to use the
“Bounce Selection” function from the Audio menu (see
“Exporting regions as audio files” on page 280).
• Selecting “Duplicate” from the Edit menu creates a
copy of the selected event and places it directly after the
original.
If several events are selected, all of these are copied “as one unit”, main-
taining the relative distance between the events.
Move to Front,
Move to Back
This function doesn’t actually change the position of the
events, but moves the selected events to the front or
back, respectively. This is useful if you have overlapping
events, and want to see one that is partially obscured.
For audio events, this is an extra important feature, since
only the visible sections of events will be played back.
Moving an obscured audio event to front (or moving the
obscuring event to back) will allow you to hear the whole
event on playback (see also “Overlapping events” on
page 266).
Note that it is also possible to use the “To Front” function
on the event context menu for this (although this works in
a different way, see “Create Events mode (Preferences)”
on page 75).
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When the Range Selection tool is used, the Nudge
buttons move the selection range (see “Moving and
duplicating” on page 55).
Function Description
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If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] as well, move-
ment direction is restricted to either horizontal or ver-
tical. That means if you drag an event vertically it can
not be moved horizontally at the same time.