Best way to insert blank bars at beginning

[Charles Czerny]

I have some older projects that start on Bar 01 Beat01. What is the best, easiest, or recommended way to move all tracks (including "takes") exactly two bars from the beginning of each track?

 

[Colin Nicholls]

Make sure nothing is selected

Enable Ripple Edit (all)

Grab the first clip at 01:01 and drag it two bars to the right

Disable Ripple Edit

Edited April 22, 2021 by Colin Nicholls

[Charles Czerny]

Colin Nicholls...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't get that to work, so I must be missing something.

I set the cursor to the "Move" icon;

Enable Ripple Edit All using the Track-Options menu pulldown;

Grab the left-most part of the first track and move it to the selected bar.

Only the first track is showing being moved, all other tracks show no move.

I opened the CW documentation which didn't add any additional guidance, basically what you said to do.

I tried doing the above with Ripple Edit Selection too, no difference.

UPDATE: All tracks moved correctly after I selected all the tracks!

So with no tracks selected only the track in focus moved, but by selecting all the tracks they correctly all showed a move of two bars. Not sure if it's supposed to work that way, but I easily changed all tracks.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Charles Czerny
I made a change and it worked.

[Starship Krupa]

I want to ask @Colin Nicholls because my suggestion is to hit RTZ and go up to Project/Insert Time/Measures and make sure all of the boxes for what to "slide" are checked. I just enter the number of measures I want and everything scoots right over.

Is the result or possible result any different from turning on Ripple Edit and then dragging everything? I prefer Insert Time/Measures because with dragging, I have to make sure that everything is selected (something that the OP ran afoul of), and then I have to remember that Ripple Edit is on. Which, even with the indicator....?.

It slides markers, tempo changes, key changes, arranger sections....

[Glenn Stanton]

same here - prefer insert via parameters versus dragging. and not just at the beginning but anywhere i'm inserting across the board.

[Colin Nicholls]

@Starship Krupa, @NOLAGuy

alright alright alright

I confess I also usually use Project > Time/ Measures also. However ripple edit works for me. I don't recall setting any specific options to ensure that Time Signatures, Markers, Arranger sections, Tempo changes also move with the clips.

I don't need to select all in order for it to work. If I start with Track 2 selected, when I grab that clip in track 1, the selection highlight moves to Track 1 - and all tracks' clips are moved.

Here:

[Charles Czerny]

@Colin Nicholls, @Starship Krupa

The good news is I learned two ways to move bars across all tracks!

Thank you guys for the help!!!

• Report post
•