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i've been wanting to ask this for a long time but i'm always in the middle of work and it's not in the manual

how do you paste clipboard data in a precise location in the midi editor?

thx!

Can you not just click where you want to paste to get the vertical marker and then paste?

that's what i've always thought but it pastes somewhere else. I don't understand the logic

When you copy, it also copies any empty space you have selected. So make sure you select only what you want to paste! Your other option is compensating for empty space by adjusting the location where you're pasting... No tricks, it pastes what you're selected.

nope... I select exactly what I want and still can't get it to go where I need

how do you select a particular place to place?

after you've done the selection, check the yellow line at the top of the piano roll to see the timespan of the actual selection that Live will copy when you do CMD-C. Sometimes it quantizes the selection to the preceding or following grid lines, depending on how exactly you select the notes. When you paste, simply click on the grid line where the copied selection should be placed. I've found Live to be very accurate and predictable when it comes to copying and pasting MIDI events, in fact I find it much easier to work with in this regard than the piano roll in Logic, because Logic always pastes beginning with the leading edge of the first note copied, whereas Live gives you the possibility to copy leading space before the first note so that the grid offsets are properly preserved.

-Luddy

what yellow line at the top of the piano roll? i've never seen one

and i've always tried clicking on the grid line where I want the copied selection to be placed to no avail

I must be missing something major here

What version of Live are you using ?
Older versions had a terrible paste cursor implementation.

version 7

you mean everyone has been talking v8?

yep, it all changed in version 8
previous to that there was no real "paste here", it was insane, as I'm sure you well know.
In V8 they put a whole new cursor, selection and brace system in.