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The Project window
Moving events
To move events in the Project window, use the following
methods:
• Click and drag to a new position.
All selected events will be moved, maintaining their relative positions. You
can only drag events to tracks of the same type. If Snap is activated, this
determines to which positions you can move the events (see “The Snap
function” on page 40).
Note also that you can restrict movement to be either horizontal or vertical
only, by holding down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging.
• Select the event and edit the Start position in the info
line.
• Use the “Move to” options on the Edit menu.
The following options are available:
• 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 22) and the value set on the Grid pop-up menu.
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 activating the corresponding option on the context menu.
See “The setup context menus” on page 262 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 “The Snap function” on page 40).
• 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.
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You will note that there is a slightly delayed response
when you move an event by dragging. This helps you
avoid accidentally moving events when you click on
them in the Project window. You can adjust this de-
lay with the Drag Delay setting in the Preferences
(Editing page).
Option Description
Cursor Moves the selected event to the project cursor position. If
there are several selected events on the same track, the
first event will start at the cursor, and the following will be
lined up end-to-start after the first one.
Origin Moves the selected events to their original positions, i.e.
the positions at which they were originally recorded.
Front/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 140).
Note that it is also possible to use the “To Front” function
on the event context menu for this.
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When the Range Selection tool is used, the Nudge
buttons move the selection range (see “Moving and
duplicating” on page 36).
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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
cannot be moved horizontally at the same time.