Cut, Copy, and Paste

The Cut, Copy, and Paste commands allow you to move audio data between and within documents. The commands work similar to a text editor. The application keeps track of a single "pasteboard" which can hold audio data. The Copy command puts the selected audio on the pasteboard, and the Cut command does the same thing as the Copy command except it also removes the selected audio from the document. The Paste command inserts the audio on the pasteboard into the current document. It does not overwrite the existing audio unless you have already selected some audio in the document you are pasting into. In that case, it will replace the selected audio with the pasteboard audio.

There are a few things to note about the Paste command. First is that you can copy and paste multiple tracks of audio, but you have to be careful about where you put the blinking insertion point or selection when you paste, or you may get unexpected results. When you select the Paste command, the first thing it will do is to delete any selected audio. Then it will insert the pasteboard audio where the deleted audio was. If the pasteboard audio contains only one track, then the audio will simply be pasted into the selected track. (The selected track is the first track where the insertion point or selection is located.) If the pasteboard audio contains more than one track, it will keep inserting audio for each track, adding tracks to the document if necessary.

This behavior is different from earlier versions of Sound Studio, because earlier versions of Sound Studio were designed for only one- or two-track operation, while this version allows multiple tracks. Earlier versions would try to keep all tracks in sync with each other, so that inserting or deleting audio would affect all tracks. The current version only affects the minimum number of tracks needed to insert the audio, so, for example, if you paste a single-track (monophonic) of audio into track one of a two-track (stereophonic) document, only the audio in track one will be moved to accomodate the new audio, thus causing the stereo audio after the insert point to be out of sync.

When moving audio data between two files with different sample rates, the audio will be resampled so that the pitch and duration of the audio will remain the same. When there is a sample rate mismatch, this resampling can take a few seconds or more for large amounts of data.

To copy marker times and names to a text editor, just use Copy on the sound data that has markers, and paste into the text editor. The marker times and names will be pasted as a tab-delimited list.


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