Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Events

Select the events you wish to remove and click the Cut button (or press Ctrl+X). The selected events are removed from the track and placed on the clipboard.

If you want to shuffle existing events to fill the space left by cut events when using a time selection, use ripple edit mode.

Cutting a time selection

If you cut a time selection, events across all tracks are removed from the timeline and placed on the clipboard. Events that extend beyond the time selection are split at each end of the time selection:

Cutting selected events within a time selection

If you cut selected events within a time selection, the selected events are removed from the timeline and placed on the clipboard. Selected events that extend beyond the time selection are split at each end of the time selection:

Select the events you want and click the Copy button (or press Ctrl+C). The selected events are copied to the clipboard. You may now paste the copied events anywhere in the project.

TIP Hold Ctrl while dragging to create copies of selected events.

Copying a time selection

If you copy a time selection, the portions of events that are within the selection (across all tracks) are placed on the clipboard:

Copying selected events within a time selection

If you copy selected events within a time selection, the portions of selected events that are within the time selection are placed on the clipboard:

Position the cursor and click the Paste button (or press Ctrl+V). Events from the clipboard are inserted at the cursor position.

Pasted events will sit on top of other events in the track if they overlap. To make space for pasted events, you can use the Paste Insert command or turn on ripple edit mode.

In previous versions of Acid, you could only copy and paste events within the same track. You can use clips to copy events between tracks: if you select a different track before you click the Paste button, the event will be added to the selected track, and a new clip will automatically be created.

From the Edit menu, choose Paste Repeat (or press Ctrl+B) to insert events from the clipboard multiple times at the current cursor position.

1. Copy events to the clipboard.

2. Position your cursor where you want to begin pasting the events.

3. From the Edit menu, choose Paste Repeat. The Paste Repeat dialog box appears.

4. In the Number of times to paste box, enter the number of times you want to paste the event.

5. Select your options and specify the settings if applicable:

6. End to End — Pastes the events one after another with no space between.

7. Even Spacing Pastes the events with the time increments specified in the Paste every controls between the starting points of the pasted events.

   If the Paste every setting is shorter than the contents of the clipboard, the pasted events will overlap.—

To insert the contents of the clipboard at the current cursor position and force existing events to move in time to accommodate the pasted events, choose Paste Insert from the Edit menu (or press Ctrl+Shift+V).

NOTE If the cursor is in the middle of an event, the event will be split at the cursor position when the new events are pasted.

TIP This feature is useful when rearranging a project by moving verses and choruses.