Audio events automatically duplicating instead of moving when dragging to another track

Hi everyone,

I’m facing a strange and inconsistent behavior in Nuendo 15.0.30 when moving audio events between tracks in Range Mode. I’ve attached a short video to demonstrate what’s happening.

Chapter 1 (Bad behavior): When I click and drag an audio event to a track below, Nuendo automatically duplicates it, leaving the original event on the initial track. It acts as if I am holding down the Alt / Option key, but I am not.

Chapter 2 (Good behavior): This is the standard behavior I want to get every time. The event is simply moved to the other track without being duplicated.

Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it gets stuck in this “auto-duplicate” behavior.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could it be a stuck modifier key preference, a specific tool setting, or a known bug?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!

My system:

  • Nuendo version: 15.0.30

  • OS: macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

Thanks in advance!

I cannot reproduce that bad behavior. It works as expected, and with the modifier key, it duplicates itself. Last version too

maybe this is a sticky key on your keyboard ? or a shortcut interfering from something like keyboard maestro?

I think in your “bad behaviour” example you are dealing with overlapping events (they are diagonally hatched), so dragging the top event reveals the underlying event.
This is not the case in your “good behaviour” example.

Thanks for yours answers !

@Sfa Indeed, sometimes I’ve got the error, sometimes not.

@klfnk2020 I use a classic keyboard without any maestro shortcuts.

@wolfger You’re completely right about the overlapping events.
However, my issue is that in previous versions (Nuendo 14), even when dealing with overlapping audio events, dragging the top event (with the range tool) would move the entire stacked block (including the overlapping) rather than just revealing what was underneath.

Is there a specific preference or setting in Nuendo 14 that changes how overlapping events behave when dragged, so that they move together as a single block like they used to?

Hhmm, dragging with range-tool on overlapping events works as desired, I could not find a setting which would change that behaviour:

I know, it’s really strange behavior… And it just happened again…
When I move items on the same track, some audio regions get left behind!

Does anyone else have the same problem, or am I the only one?

And again !