aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Hi all, This is infuriating and stopping me from getting my work done, hopefully someone can help. I cannot move audio (live recorded) regions to other tracks and I have no idea why. The SMPTE setting is unlocked, my snap is set to smart and drag to X-fade.. I can move the regions within the same track, but I can't transfer them to another. When I tried copying and pasting to another track, I could do so, but there's no sound in the copied track. Help?! Aurorah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Is the copied track an audio track? Can you share a screenshot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 The copied track is an audio track, yes. It's green because I joined two halves of an audio track... I'm still able to move midi and looped regions from track to track, its just the audio ones that I can't... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Does this happen on every project or only this particular one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 every one now... This was never a problem before... I think what happened is that I was working on a project that had multiple tracks on it for multiple songs, and I tried to lock the tracks so that when I was working on another section of the project I wouldn't mess up the regions of other sections, except the only regions that I cannot move now are the audio ones, and I don't know what I pushed to make that happen (it's always just a button isn't it?!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 development on the same problem: I just copied a portion of a vocal region and pasted it within the same track a little later, and all the regions (except the pasted one) disappeared, but still make sound... ugh, dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facej Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 When you say 'move' do you really mean to move the selection? You might have the setting 'Limit dragging to one direction' enabled for Tracks. This exhibits itself as an inability to move a region to a new track (above or below) if you start by dragging left/right to put it in position. I have no idea why your copy/paste doesn't work. It works as expected when I try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 when I say move I mean move a selected region to another track, so the "limit dragging to one direction" setting sounds like it might be the problem... how do I undo that setting? maybe that will fix the copy/paste problem as well... that one is weird as all the sound is still there, but the visual regions are gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 The copied track is an audio track, yes. No: it's a track stack. Move the audio region onto an audio track, or open the track stack and move it onto an audio track inside the track stack (if any). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 the audio region is already in an audio track, I still cannot move it to another audio track, and I don't know what a track stack is, sorry... If you mean the thing that comes up when you do multiple takes, I have not done that (because I don't know how to deal with it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 On your screenshot, we can see only track stacks (the first 3 visible tracks) and one software instrument track. You need to open the track stacks to double-check wether or not the audio regions are on audio tracks. For that, click the little triangle that's in the track header, in front of the icon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Track Stacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 I can move the region between the track stacks, but no matter where I put it, when I condense the track stack I still cannot move the region to another track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facej Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 when I say move I mean move a selected region to another track, so the "limit dragging to one direction" setting sounds like it might be the problem... how do I undo that setting? Preferences>General>Editing there should be a setting at the bottom of the page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 I found it. It wasn't enabled, but I enabled it, rebooted and disabled it: problem persists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 k, I may have found a workaround... when I copy and paste each audio region into another track, open the track stack and drag the audio region into the first track in the stack, it works... but I still don't understand why I can't just drag the original audio recording to a new track... I always could (been using this program for at least 7 years - though my knowledge is rudimentary). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution David Nahmani Posted May 14, 2019 Solution Share Posted May 14, 2019 I can move the region between the track stacks, but no matter where I put it, when I condense the track stack I still cannot move the region to another track Ok that's normal (even though not intuitive), the audio region is not on the main track of the stack, that's just a representation of the contents of the stack. You have to open the stack to access the region that is actually located on a subtrack inside the stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurorah Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 ok, thank you so much for your help! much appreciated, I can work with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 ok, thank you so much for your help! much appreciated, I can work with that. You're welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oooomusic Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 WORKAROUND.... I have just replaced my hardrive and had to reinstall osx etc and somehow I've ended up with same problem never encountered before..... record your audio onto an plain audio track which doesn't involve a preset ie I have guitar or bass available.. there may be more now in later versions. Once you have done that with input selected etc set up your channel effects manually or by copying and pasting from a preset of your choice...and away you go ... you can move/edit as before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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