Apple Logic Pro 9 - Manual (Page 394)

To copy a region (method 1)
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Option-drag the region to the desired Arrange position.
If Hyper Draw or automation is activated, you need to grab the region name area in order
to copy it.
To copy a region (method 2)
1 Select the region, then choose Edit > Copy (or use the Copy key command, default
assignment: Command-C).
This action copies the selected region to the Clipboard.
2 Set the playhead position by clicking the Bar ruler.
3 Choose Edit > Paste (or press Command-V) to paste the contents of the Clipboard into
the Arrange area. The paste occurs on the selected track at the playhead position.
If several regions are selected, their relative time and track positions are retained.
Copied regions are actually true, independent replicas of original regions. Changes made
to a parent region does not affect child copies.
If, instead, you do want this type of behavior—in which changes to the parent region
affect child regions—make use of the Loop function (see
Creating Region Loops ), or
create cloned or alias regions (see Creating Region Aliases ).
When you copy an audio region, a new region is automatically created in the Audio Bin.
The new region retains the name of the original, with a sequential number added. For
example, kickingloop.1 will be the name of a region copy if the original region is called
kickingloop. A second copy will be named kickingloop.2, a third kickingloop.3, and so on.
To paste a region at the same position as the copied region
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Select the track you want to paste the region into, then choose Edit > Paste at Original
Position (or use the corresponding key command).
Logic Pro inserts the copied region into the selected track, at the same position as the
source region. This is useful if you want to copy a region to the same spot on a different
track, to independently process or thicken the part, for example. This function is also ideal
for creating layered MIDI or software instrument parts.
Adding or Removing Arrangement Passages
There are times when you will want to remove an entire passage from an
arrangement—for example, a chorus or verse, which encompasses the regions of all tracks
between bars 16 and 20. All existing regions, bar changes, tempo changes, and global
score symbols (from bar 21 onward) are moved four bars to the left, closing the gap left
after the Cut operation.
394 Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement