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

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:42 -0500, peter schmitt wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 12:13 -0500, peter schmitt wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Would it be too much trouble to ask how I can avoid the problem of 
> >> trimming the original track as a side effect?
> >>     
> >
> >   
>  >snip helpful advice<
> > there is another approach as well, but try that one and see how it works
> > for you.
> >
> > --p
> >
> >   
> It works great- thanks much.
> Would the other approach be the constrained drag?
> I tried that, but the trimming effect I described would seem to indicate 
> that I was overlooking something there, too.
> Or was I misunderstanding the usual purpose of the operation?

the other approach is to select a time range, then convert it to a
region in place, then do a time-constrained copy-drag to another track.

the difference is that this leaves your original playlist with more
regions than it had before - you can't hear the boundaries (much), but
they are there, and ardour does not have ProTool's "heal separation"
function to "undo" the cuts that were made.

--p