Copy and pasting Slash Regions, and Repeated Bar Regions is a constantly frustrating ordeal. 2 very common examples
Guitar and Bass have an 8 bar phrase. Guitar has slashes throughout the 8 bars. Bass has slashes (same chords obviously), but a fill on the 8th bar. I’d expect to be able to copy 7 bars of the guitar slashes, and copy and paste them into the bass part. Now I can write in that bass fill on bar 8.
For bar repeats. Drums Rehearsal A have a two bar beat written out, followed by 3 pairs of of 2 bar repeats. Then, B has the same two bar beat written out, followed by 2 pairs of 2 bar repeats, and then a 2 bar fill leading into the chorus. I SHOULD be able to copy and paste the 1st 6 bars of A and paste it into B. But, because this is a “REGION”, it won’t let me copy those 6 bars, I have to copy all 8. Because of this, I have to manually put this all into the B section that is mostly the same as A.
If you want to see a REALLY big mess, try copying and pasting a group of measures, of all the instruments of your score, but with the bars intersecting a slash region. Copy and paste this and view the complete mess that happens. Everything is completely off.
I understand internally why this would be treated as a region, but for a user, I don’t see any benefit to forcing the user to copy an entire region instead of a section. Is there one that I’m missing?
Also, I understand the workflow is to split slash regions. Annoying, but it works. Is there a way to split bar repeats? Or is there just no way to copy paste repeated bars functionally unless the entire region is the exact same number of bars.
Sorry for the rant. I love this software, but this just REGULARLY drives me nuts.
Why don’t you just copy 8 bars of the SR and then drag it one bar shorter?
Or select the 7 bars and make a new SR?
Or select the first bar, make a new single-bar SR, and then hit repeat a few times?
Well it looks like you had to make 3 separate Bar Repeat Regions in order to do this. That’s a bunch of steps you have to make, that seem completely unnecessary to me. At least with slash regions you can split them where you like.
With Bar Repeats, it looks like you have to delete them, and recreate them in chunks, just so you can copy them.
Visually, three 2 bar repeats are 3 separate elements. Musically, they are 3 separate elements. Why do they lock them, and you, into treating them as one giant element?
At the very list, repeat bars should have a split feature similar to Slash Regions, so it’s at least consistent. And I’m still not seeing the benefit of not being able to select a portion of these regions without cutting them into chunks.
The Bar Repeat issue I certainly understand and it annoys a lot of times too. I don’t really understand why anyone uses a Slash Region longer than a bar though. Simply limit each region to a bar and they are much easier to copy and paste.
Here’s a single bar where I hit rrrrrrrrrr:
Or for an extended passage, just copy one bar, drag-select a region, and paste.
This way I can copy any bar to another bar without the length of the region being a factor.
In the meantime you could also use the Insert mode stop position for that (you don’t have to activate Insert mode itself to use it).
Here the three 2-bar repeats are one region. I alt+clicked but could also have used R.
This also works when copying part of the whole score that includes a region (bar repeat or otherwise). Copy all bars spanning the region, put the stop position where you want to, paste.
