[Ardour-Users] How do I select and copy a time aligned region?

[peter schmitt]

Dan Tepper wrote:
> after you drop the region in a new track, right click the region, from
> the top (region) menu, choose "original position"
>
> note: this won't work if the source region was moved from its original
> position.
>
> -dan
>   
Thank you very, very much.
This issue was confounding the hell out of me.
I'm a newbie to DAW usage, and I'm just getting used to the terrain.
I've read up on studio techniques and such, but putting theory to 
practice always has a learning curve, and I'm at the very beginning if 
that curve.

Would it be too much trouble to ask how I can avoid the problem of 
trimming the original track as a side effect? Whenever I attempt to 
select a region from it, everything but the region of interest 
disappears from view, and I can't get the remainder of the track back in 
the editor. It will still audition in its' totality, but I can't see the 
unselected content anymore.

> peter schmitt wrote:
>   
>> Hi, all.
>> I know the manual seems to cover this topic, but for the life of me, I 
>> cannot figure out how to:
>> 1) select a snippet of sound from one track while leaving the rest of 
>> the track unmolested (I end up with a trimmed track that I can't get 
>> back to its original state)
>> 2) copy that snippet in a time-aligned fashion to a new fresh track, so 
>> I can apply an effect to it independently of the original, and have it 
>> sync up with the original.
>>     
 ><
>> Thanks
>> Pete.
>>
>>
>>