FR: Copy/Paste Automation for several lanes at once

Dorico
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I have been automating both CC1 and CC11 on my tracks lately for the ultimate dynamic shaping. However for instruments where that same exact part is doubled elsewhere, I would like to be able to copy and paste CC1 & CC11 lanes with ease, accuracy, and speed (to several instruments at once if possible).

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Here is an example of what it might look like on one instrument.

I have observed you can do a ctrl+click marquee selection of both lanes for the copy function, but when it comes to pasting, there is no way to have it correctly paste and parse into their respective lanes on another instrument (in other words, it will paste both data in either CC1 or CC11, but not separately as it should).

Ideally one could select a range of instruments where this part is doubled, let’s say as example 2 flutes, bassoons, trumpet, violins - and with the range selected copy/paste automation data for only that selected range to all other selected tracks (without overwriting data that may exist for that instrument in other sections of the music, which is crucial!).

For now the only two methods I have found are to manually copy and paste every lane one by one which is very tedious (if you have 12 instruments that’s now 24 lanes to work with!);
or to manually draw automation in the key editor using the “multiple instrument” view function, however this as I’ve learned has the downside of not allowing me to write in data to all instruments via a hardware midi controller.

Thank you!

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3 years ago I suggested that manual automation overrides could be shown as signposts in the score. That would have some benefits over the key editor:

  1. Filtering, copying, moving or deleting automation-signposts would be insanely fast.
  2. You could see in a glance where exactly automation has been added in the score.
  3. You could type in precise automation points (like noteperformer CC104=1) (and do that much faster than with mouse)

The key editor has developed a lot from that time, but I still wish that this idea of automation-signposts could be reconsidered. I honestly think it would be an insanely fast and efficient way to work with automation.

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