How to copy a midi passage at exacly the same time but on the left of it

[Denis Grandmont]

Hi, I'm sorry if this a newbie question but I've been trying to figure this out for a while.

In midi tracks:

Whilst I have no problem copying say a beat of 4 bars many time over, on another track I have trouble copying a melody where to first note starts right  after the 3rd bar in a 4/4.

I can't figure out how to copy that patern to land at exactly a the same time (after the 3rd bar) say 4 mesures on the left. Do you know what I mean?

The first note of this patern for exemple starts at 3:490....and I want to copy the whole patern and have that first note to also be on 11:490. I can approximate 11:385 or 11:51 by draging the whole patern with my mouse, but I never seem to get it right where I want.

Can someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this?

 

TIA

 

Cheers!

Edited March 21, 2021 by Denis Grandmont
corrections

[sjoens]

1. Turn off SNAP, zoom in to the area you want to put it, drag it to that location with AIM ASSIST.

2. Use Paste Special (Ctrl+Alt+V) and enter the exact location at the top.

HTH

[Promidi]

Select  the events you want to copy. Go to FROM (I have set the ; key as keybinding to do this.  I have also set ' to Go to THRU )

Then copy and paste (to make a duplicate - only one will remain selected)

Process > Slide, then enter -4 measures.  

[sjoens]

Never used Process > Slide before. THX PM!

[Denis Grandmont]

Thanks guys, it worked!!