This would be bad for two reasons.
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If you have lanes and there is an audio event that is smaller then the selection and you hit delete you are not going to get that back as an option to check out later.
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If you have multiple punch-ins on the track and you just hit delete then you are not going to be able to come back later and drag out your selection to get back what you had.
There are many times I want to mute a region because it is visually more helpful then mute automation but later a producer or artist says they want something back or say I don’t remember telling you that I didn’t want that.
The best solution I have come up with so far is
- Range Selection Tool
1.2) Make selection
- Cut selection
- Transport Locate selection
- Object selection
- Paste
- Range Selection Tool
The problem with this is for audio events the snap point is where it will paste to at the cursor location and if you don’t select right on the bar that will shift the audio. Works just fine with MIDI regions.
I have a macro that includes some pre-steps and post steps to this to allow me to make the edits while I am still playing and return to where I was playing from but this is not flawless which is why I came looking yet again for a solution to this problem. Another one of those things as was pointed out in Pro Tools I do all the time separate and then mute (two key strokes which are made into a single command with a 3rd party macro since I do that all the time).
Is there some sort of preference that says object selection pastes at cursor and range selection pastes at range selection.
This problem would be simple if when you pasted the cut range selection the events/regions were selected (object selected).
http://theaudiocave.com/pics/msx.gif
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