can you drag an audio file form the Audio Bin?

[nikkik]

Hi!

Stupid question...one the manual seems to love dancing around and never answering. How can I drag an audio file/region onto a track in the Arrange window, and NOT have it force you to drop at a certain spot?

 

I have a bunch of sound effects I am trying to assemble into a section of a song, and I have the playhead and locators at bar 261. But, whenever I try to drag an audio file from the Audio Bin that has not ever been used, it is *forcing* me to drop it at bar 350 or so.

 

Help please?

[David Nahmani]

Make sure your drag mode is not one of the "Shuffle" modes? You should be able to drop the region wherever you want.

[nikkik]

Yep- Overlap mode most of the time.

Here is a screen shot

I was dropping it at bar 164...but the region will get dropped at ~302 instead.

 

I have sections of the song foldered up. If I drop into the first folder, bar 1-164 or so, I can drag regions in fine. If I hop out to the topmost hierarchy, and then bop on down into the second folder, about 161-340 or so, then I cannot drag n drop in the spot I place the cursor, as shown in that screen shot.

 

Bug?

[nikkik]

Here is a screen of the top hierarchy, back a few versions (scene two has been torn apart and new pieces written and stuff). Not sure if it is my use of folders doing this or not.

 

(yes, I love the folder feature...MUCH more than how Cubase/Nuendo does it; as for the song..well, it is a concept album, three acts with scenes in each; prog rock + soundtrack type stuff)