Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

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DDCCD
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Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by DDCCD » Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:55 pm

If I am in arrangment view, at end of song, and I want all 7 tracks playing at end to continue looping another 8 bars (for a fade, for example), is there a quick way to grab a hold of all 7 tracks and extend them?

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by Khazul » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:40 pm

Select the end of all of the last clips and just drag them out.
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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by DDCCD » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:26 pm

Thanks. That's what I've been doing.

But if the song has 35 tracks, then I am doing that maybe 15 separate times for the final part of song.... just to extend song 8 bars. Anf of course user must find all of the trcks that are active at that time. And ther will be occasions when a track or two is missed, and not extend like the others. There must be a command to select all active tracks at a certain timeline to drag them to right.

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by mode:masters » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:29 pm

select the top clip, hold down shift, select bottom clip.

drag ends of clips.

or, alternatively, draw a bounding box around the whole lot (use the zoom function in prefs if you cant see everything) and drag the clip ends.

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by Khazul » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:42 pm

Why wasnt that zoom option in the corner of the window o at least somewhere more useful!
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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by mode:masters » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:42 am

Yeah I agree, it needs to be a standard function accessible at all times.

It's been requested in the wishlist a few times i think.

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by outershpongolia » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:57 am

Khazul wrote:Why wasnt that zoom option in the corner of the window o at least somewhere more useful!
Is it even MIDI mappable? I assume not with out some sort of workaround or "hack".

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by UKRuss » Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:12 pm

If its just the 7 tracks playing, why not just highlight them all and hit 'duplicate time'?

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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by davepermen » Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:03 pm

UKRuss wrote:If its just the 7 tracks playing, why not just highlight them all and hit 'duplicate time'?
+1

once i detected the "do ... time" features, i use them most of the time, very handy.
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Re: Fast way to extend all track lengths at end of song?

Post by svpervnder » Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:42 pm

I was looking to extend the tracks on both ends, with silence, to keep the length of each track the same on both sides.

What I was looking for is: Consolidate.

If your tracks are within a loop, select the track or tracks from the beginning of the loop, to the end of it and right click Consolidate: CMD + J.

Magic.

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