[LAU] all-track splice and move in Ardour

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 12/08/2009 04:29 AM, Brent Busby wrote:
> This is probably something that should be on the Ardour list, but I'm
> not subscribed there, and I seldom enough have questions about Ardour to
> subscribe...
>
> What's the most logical (and safest) way to take a section out of a
> whole timeline, across all tracks, and move it somewhere else?
> Probably describing this in computer terms would be too unwieldly for
> such a simple idea -- basically I want the equivalent of a tape splice.
> If it's necessary to individually move all the affected regions on all
> the affected tracks, I can, but I wondered if there's some simpler way.
> Also, I noticed some documentation saying the splice feature was unsafe.
> (I'm using Ardour 2.7.1.)
>
> I'm working on one of those songs where all the ideas came together, but
> in the wrong order.  I've got a section about three-fourths of the way
> into it that really should have been the beginning...
>
>    



Can you select the regions, duplicate/copy,  drag to the new start 
point, then cut the old parts out of the mix and readjust the following 
material to the new start point? I think this will work across multiple 
tracks.





Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd