Coppying between locators on selected tracks

[David Eagle]

Hi, I’m trying to copy part of one track to another part of the project. I thought the quickest way to do this would be to make a locator selection and then work from there. At first I thought I could do the Shift L action to select all regions between the locators, but the selects all the regions on all tracks, so that’s o good. I then tried using control option shift C to copy between the selected locators, but when I move to later in the project and press control option shift V to paste, I get a weird message about global events. Whether I tick move or don’t move for the global events, I still don’t get all my selection between the locators pasted. I also tried just using Command C and Command V but that doesn’t copy between the locators. I’ve looked through the LM documentation and searched Tom’s Youtube videos, but I’ve not found anything using this method. The closest I”ve found is something about using control command T to do a region split between the locators, but that doesn’t seem to be what I want. There’s also a tutorial on copying between all locators, but not if you just want to work with selected tracks. I thought I’d read that control option left and right bracket would make a selection, but apparently that’s tied to reversing commands?

I’m very confused indeed. Hopefully you can help. Thanks.

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[David Eagle]

OK, I’ve got it working now. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong before, but here are my steps.

1. Set your locators with command left and right bracket.

2. Press control option shift C to copy between locators on only selected tracks.

3. Move to where you want to paste and press control option shift V.

4. It keeps coming up with a notification about global tracks, which I don’t completely understand. But I hit the button that says don’t move, and it just moves what I wanted to move.

I don’t think there’s a tutorial on this anywhere that I can find, but of course I may be wrong. But it’s a rather fundamental aspect of working in a project, so it would be good to have one, to hopefully avoid others getting completely confused by this.

I’m also find it very confusing knowing what the point of creating a selection with control option shift left and right bracket is. But at least I can seemingly now copy, cut and paste selected tracks, rather than having everything coppied and pasted. This, to my mind, is also better than control T to split regions, as this could just create unnecessary clutter in your project with stray regions hither and indeed thither. 

Thanks.

[TheOreoMonster]

There is indeed a tutorial

Also it’s part  of the one playlist I always tell people to review again and again especially when relatively new to Logic.

Control Option Shift V is paste insert.  Useful if say you want to paste at bar 41 and move whatever is at bar 41 on that track over to be at the end of what you are pasting. You can just use Command V to do a regular paste after copying between locators on selected tracks. Of course if you use Control Option Shift V at the end of a project it will work just like command v.

It’s asking if you want to paste the regions only or any global events like tempo change markers etc as well when you paste. 

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[David Eagle]

Ah brilliant. Thanks Tom. Apologies for missing that one. I would have heard it at some point, as I've watched all those videos, but that was clearly one of the things I didn't absorb. I'll hopefully find a bit of time to grace you all with my presence on Discord at some point. Thanks for the help.

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On 16 May 2026, at 18:42, TheOreoMonster <theoreo...@logic.band> wrote:

There is indeed a tutorial

Also it’s part  of the one playlist I always tell people to review again and again especially when relatively new to Logic.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/logic-accessibility/91E4D418-ADC3-481D-A613-3A5EA053763C%40logic.band.