Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 432)

Chapter 15 Advanced edit features 432
Copy and move steps with the Clipboard
m You can also use the Clipboard to copy and move steps (events):
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To copy events into the Clipboard: Choose Edit > Copy (or press Command-C).
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To move events into the Clipboard: Choose Edit > Cut (or press Command-X).
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To paste the events at the current playhead position, inclusive of their original values: Choose Edit
> Paste (or press Command-V).
You can also perform advanced Copy and Move operations in the Step Editor. These allow you to
directly swap steps, or to merge a group of events from one section of a region to the same, or
another, region. For more information on common editing functions, see
Copy notes in the Piano
Roll Editor on page 352.
Protect the position of steps
There are times when you will want to protect certain steps from being moved. For example,
several note events may be used to trigger footstep samples that match an actor walking
down a corridor in a video soundtrack. You have already created the music for this scene, but
have been asked to increase the tempo to match several cuts of different camera angles in the
corridor. Any change to the project tempo will move the events, resulting in out-of-sync footstep
samples. To circumvent this problem, Logic Pro has a feature that preserves the absolute time
position of events.
The protect and unprotect functions are available only when Show Advanced Tools is
selected in the Advanced preferences pane.
Protect the position of one or more selected steps
m Choose Functions > Lock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command). Events
that fall at a particular absolute time position—1 hour, 3 minutes, 15 seconds, 12 frames, for
example—will remain at this position when tempo changes are made.
Unprotect the position of one or more selected steps
m Choose Functions > Unlock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).