[LAU] all-track splice and move in Ardour

[Tapani Sysimetsä]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On 12/08/2009 04:29 AM, Brent Busby wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> 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...
>>
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> 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.
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Hi, that should work indeed. I've done it by moving playhead to the 
starting point of the to-be-moved section of the song, hitting Ctrl+A, 
then hitting S (make sure that Edit point is set as Playhead), then 
doing the same for end point, then selecting all those to-be-moved 
regions (Ctrl pressed while selecting) and dragging them all at once to 
a better place...

If things get screwed, Ctrl+Z is the reverse gear.

Tapani