MIDI clips: how to keep them in entire units

[Bronxio]

Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to edit MIDI clips and not to divide them in the timeline. I have a mayhem of self-made frankenstein-like clip groups (please see the attached image) and it's a little difficult to select them properly sometimes.

In other words, I don't want Cakewalk to sepparate automatically my clips: I want to be able to edit a MIDI one in the piano roll and keep it entire, in one unique piece (as before editing it)

Thanks in advance!

[chuckebaby]

Good house keeping means using the "Bounce to clips function" often (after making copy/paste - drag/paste selections).

Its easy to use if your purpose is to have one whole clip vs. tiny little splinter clips every where.

[Bronxio]

Cool! Now I can have my clips together, thanks!

Anyway, does this mean that there is no way to tell Cakealk that, by default, I do not want it to split my clips when I edit them?

Edited August 28, 2019 by Bronxio
Just to make cleare the first sentence, and added a missed "l"

[chuckebaby]

3 hours ago, Bronxio said:

does this mean that there is no way to tell Cakealk that, by default, I do not want it to split my clips when I edit them?

It all depends on what type of editing your doing. How are you getting these small clips, from copy/paste ?

Myself, I do a lot of Drag/select - copy/paste maneuvers (I select a region, then hold CNTRL and drop it to a new area). This cause clips to be separated into smaller fragments.

It really is just part of the workflow to be honest. I have Bounce to clips linked to my Custom module. It becomes a 2 click procedure.

1-  select the whole track

2- press one button/Done !

 

 

[Bronxio]

3 hours ago, Chuck E Baby said:

How are you getting these small clips, from copy/paste ?

After editing inside the piano roll, but I relaised it's because what you said: copy/paste (didn't know the drag with ctrl way, thanks for explaining it). I'll try your method of the custom module or with a keyboard shortcut anyway to make it faster, thanx ?

In case anyone could say a way to tell Cakewalk not to create new clips when copy/pasting, it would be cool!

[scook]

Might as well get used to clips. They are fundamental to the way CbB works. In fact, there are two different clip types that may be hosted in instrument/MIDI tracks: regular MIDI clips and step sequencer clips. They are similar in appearance and function but different in how the data is stored and edited.