[RWP] can anyone explain this behaviour?

[chris flatley]

thanks indigo. I was wondering if there was a shortcut for splitting. As you describe, it does make life so much easier.
 

> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:02:26 -0400
> From: 33indigo at charter.net
> To: rwp at reaaccess.com
> Subject: Re: [RWP] can anyone explain this behaviour?
> 
> How about splitting off the item you want to paste?
> To split, select a track, then select its item with ctrl+right arrow.
> Then move the cursor to where you want the first split to end, and press 
> the letter S.
> You now have 2 items on that track, the first from beginning to where 
> your cursor was located, the second from that point to the end.
> Do this as many times as you need to get the exact phrase you want to 
> paste, then select that item, copy it to clipboard and paste it.
> 
> On 10/5/2012 6:04 PM, chris flatley wrote:
> > Okay, so I'm still locked in this farce with copy paste. In order to try
> > to get to the bottom of it, I abandoned imported audio, and instead
> > recorded a couple of guitar tracks. I then select both tracks with shift
> > space, then use shift page down to select the first 8 measures. Then I
> > hit control C to copy. I make sure the cursor is at the start of measure
> > 9, and hit control V to paste. It pastes only the audio from track 2. So
> > I undo the paste, and try unselecting track 2, and then with just track
> > 1 selected, I repeat the procedure with the same result; just the audio
> > from track 2 is pasted, and it wasn't even selected. I undo again, make
> > sure that I am on track 1, and do a control left arrow to select the
> > item, and try the copy and paste again. The audio from track 2 is still
> > being pasted but not track 1. I try unselecting track 1 aswell as track
> > 2, still only track 2 pastes.
> > Where's the logic? . The only difference I could see between the two
> > tracks was that track 1 was saying touched and track 2 wasn't. Don't
> > know what this means or how to get rid of it, or even if it matters.
> > Searched the whole of the user manual for touched and got a few
> > references to last touched items but it didn't really elaborate on what
> > it meant or what it was useful for.
> > Any ideas guys because I'm coming to the end of my tether. Cheers.
> >
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