Is there’s a way to add bars at a specific location without making the linear events move. from what i understood ( correct me if im wrong ) for musical events, it’s normal for them to shift when adding bars, as they follow the beat positions. But , I’m surprised that linear events (which I expect to follow time rather than beats) also get moved when I add bars.
what i did is the following:
I used the “Insert Bars” function, which, as I understand, adds bars (beats) to the timeline, not time.
But to my surprise, the linear events were also translated(shifted in the timeline), even though they’re tied to a time position rather than beats.
To be more concrete and clear, let’s say I have an audio event that starts at *40 seconds (00:00:40:00)
If I change the BPM of the session, the audio event remains at 40 seconds, as expected for linear events.
However, when I insert bars, the clip shifts forward (e.g., from 40 seconds to 45 seconds), even though I expected it to be tied to time rather than beats.
so, is there a way to insert bars without affecting linear events, keeping them locked to their absolute time positions?
Lock the track that has the event you want to stay fixed in time
Use the Range > Insert Silence function (instead of Insert Bars you said you were trying) to insert bars prior to the occurrence of that event
Here the entire project gets moved to the right except data on locked tracks.
Caveat, YMMV: I’ve read here that in some people’s systems locking the track doesn’t protect events on the track from being shifted when Insert Silence is applied.
Alexis, thank you so much for your reply
The workaround you proposed kind of worked. I tested it using both Insert Silence and Insert Bars, and the results were similar. the trick is that I have to lock the tracks beforehand for the events I don’t want to move, as u suggested. It’s extra work, but it does work as a workaround.
One approach I had in mind afterwards is to create a macro with the PLE prior to inserting bars or silence. The macro would:
Select all tracks with their mode set to Linear through PLE filters (not Musical, since those are the ones I want to target and keep in place).
Automatically lock those tracks using the PLE filter.
Then proceed with inserting the bars.
but im not sure if this approach will work unless I can find a way to change a track’s mode from Musical to Linear (and vice versa) directly inside the PLE. So far, I haven’t found such an option. If this exists in PLE, it would make things much smoother and fully automate the process.
