Copying Events from one track to another

Cubase
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Is there a way to copy an event from one track to another and have them stay aligned w/ one another?

Lets say I have an event recorded on track 1 and I want to copy it to track two. I press alt and drag The event down to track 2 directly below it, creating a copy of it on the next track. However, many times I then have to magnify the screen to realign the two events. There are times it aligns them perfectly on its own (sometimes it does sometimes it doesn’t). This makes me wonder if I’m doing something w/o knowing what that something is that aligns them when copied.

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According the manual you should be able to combine Ctrl/Alt to constrain movement and duplicate but actually holding Ctrl-Alt activates move contents within event instead (with default settings at least)
You can work around it by holding alt dragging and then hitting ctrl before dropping.
I guess if you changed key command for the other function to something different it might work as advertised.
Actually forget that last bit, it’s not a key command it’s a tool modifier and even if you reassign slip edit to something different it doesn’t work as constrain will stop you from moving to another track (working horizontally) if held while you duplicate the even with alt.

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There is a bug in Cubase 14 with this feature. See the below post.

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Hej,
I would go like this: copy the event (strg+c) > go to desired lane > press alt+v.
Works like a charm, easy and fast every time :grin:

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I think you meant to type ctrl+c …and yes, perfect as long as the track you want to copy to already exists or you don’t mind creating it first.

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Sorry - on german computers it’s strg, but yes I probably mean ctrl :sweat_smile:
You’re right, the track has to exist - I thought since you wrote “to the next track” that would be the case…

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Hmmm I shall try this… never thought about it but automation copies perfectly this way… good tip thanks
R

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It really is about pressing the modifiers at the correct time.
Press Ctrl only after you have pressed Alt and started to move the event.

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If the worst comes to the worst you can always duplicate the track and delete the bits you don’t want.
Like I say, a last resort.

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Thank you to everyone that responded… almost all of the suggestions I’ve already done. I tried copy paste and even though I clicked on the target track it decided to arbitrarily paste contents to another track several tracks away.

I thought I read somewhere that if u press alt and another key it’ll stay in place horizontally while you drag it vertically down to another track. I tried shift as the other key and it failed so I might’ve just made that up.
R

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Gee, two people wrote how to do it. Maybe your modifier key is different as it can be assigned in the Preferences.

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(Note: With version 14.0.20 the Drag&Drop is missing, but we were assured it will be back.

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This is literally what I described in the first response with the caveat of the exact order of key presses you need to do it…so maybe you just need to read the thread again.

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Seems like someone is having a bad day… I am on the latest version of Cubase, so I suspect the constrain direction is missing as the directions offered didn’t work… Again thank you all for your efforts.

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I’m also on latest version Cubase as are many others and it works fine for us.

What actually happens if you hold alt, copy the part (keep hold of alt) position the copy in appx the correct position…now hit Ctrl (still holding alt). Doesn’t the event snap to the correct position??