Pasting Without Splicing - Mackie HDR24 Editing Manual

on its track number button. Drag the current time bar to the point where you
want the copy to appear. Click Paste - the selection you just copied appears
on the chosen track, starting where you positioned the current time bar.
If Splice is on, turn it off by clicking on the Splice button.
Chop a hole in the counting track by selecting the [5] region with the Hand
tool, and clicking on Cut.
With the I-Beam tool, select an area starting between "three" and "four", and
ending between "six" and "seven", spanning the blank space left when we cut
out "five". Click Copy. Click on the track where you pasted [5], set the time
bar a bit past the end of that region, and click Paste. The selection you just
copied appears there, complete with blank space.
Now we have a track with three regions: [5], a portion of the [3,4] region
containing only "four", and a portion of the [6,7,8,9,10] region containing only
"six", and including the original space where [5] was removed.
Just to refresh your dragging skills, using the Hand tool, grab the [5] region
and drag it to the right, just past the end of the "six" region on the track.
Now select Splice. Move the current time pointer to the blank space just
before the [5] region. That selection with the gap in the middle is still on the
clipboard because we haven't replaced it with anything yet. Click Paste.
The [5] region moved later in time to accommodate the pasted selection. This
is the equivalent of cutting the tape and inserting a new section.
Use this principle to repeat the chorus of a song. Here's how to do it:
Select the chorus. By dragging the I-Beam tool along the time bar rather than
over just one track, you'll select all the tracks at once. Copy the selection to
the clipboard.
Park the Current Time pointer where you want the duplicated chorus to start.
All of the tracks should still be selected since your all-tracks area selection is
still active. Turn Splice on.
Click Paste. The copy of the chorus is dropped into the tracks where it
belongs. Because all tracks were selected and Splice was active, all the
tracks moved over by the length of the chorus, so the other tracks didn't get
out of synchronization.
Reality is a bit more complicated than that, because you'll need to trim and
nudge to get the timing right on, but the more you do, the easier it gets.

Pasting without Splicing

Now, deselect Splice and let's take a look at pasting without splicing.
Sometimes you don't want to insert a new section, you want to replace. When
you Paste with the Splice mode off, the selection or region is just plopped
right smack on top of the region that's already there (even if it's blank space).
The track doesn't slide out of the way to make room for the new section. You
haven't overwritten anything – the underlying audio is still there, but the
HDR24/96 plays what's on top, so you'll hear the track with the new section
rather than the old one.
Undo your edits far enough back so that you have all the numbers in order
again. Select the area over "two" using the I-Beam tool. Copy it to the
clipboard. Now place the current time pointer just ahead of "four" and Paste.
Now you'll hear the count 1, 2, 3, 2, 5, . . .
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