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How to insert blank bars at the beginning of a song?

Baddox	Date: May 11, 2005 @ 2:57 PM I forgot to put a short intro at the beginning of a song I'm doing, and I can't figure out how to insert a few bars before everything else in my playlist. I've tried selecting all the patterns and moving them or cutting and pasting them, but they always come back to the same spot. Anyone know how to do this?
TransAutobot	Date: May 11, 2005 @ 3:37 PM WOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME... I just typed up how to do it and It said I wasnt logged in... SO I just lost the WHOLE examplation... It took so damn long to type up too Thats really annoying. Anyways if you still dont figure it out, I'll tell ya when I get back from work... Wow that was just so unbelievable wrong...
Baddox	Date: May 11, 2005 @ 4:19 PM Man that really sucks. I'll look around some more, but yesterday I couldn't find anything even close.
orgasmotron	Date: May 11, 2005 @ 8:19 PM best view. select all. drag over how ever much you want. this method has always worked for me, but if your saying its snapping back to its original position, i don't know what your problem could be. automate it maybe? (hahahahahaahh get it because... ah don't worry)
jtorius	Date: May 12, 2005 @ 12:44 AM okay maybe i can help u but in case my method doesn't work i want you to save another copy of ur file by giving it a different name. okay now go to ur playlist and remember how u set it. remember all the pattern locations. okay now i want u to clear all of the patterns in the song area of ur playlist. now in ur playlist go to a pattern in which u have not filled in any steps, by this i mean like go to pattern 11 if it is blank or whatever pattern u didnt fill in, essentially a blank pattern, we will call that pattern "intro". now fill the intro block in playlist to however long u want the blank pattern to play and then add in all the patterns you created after the last block of intro in the order in which you want them to play
TransAutobot	Date: May 12, 2005 @ 4:01 AM Or You might just need to Cut your whole song, and paste it to the new location. Its easy to do, just has acouple of steps. First select your entire song. To do that, in the Playlist section, click the "Select" icon which is the 3rd icon to the last (The dotted lined square icon with nothing inside it.) With that icon selected, you'll be able to copy and paste. Now to select your entire song, "Left Click and Hold" on the bar with 1 3 5 7 9... etc.. start from the start of your song and work your way to the end. Once you reached the end of a bar and cant go any farther, while still holding the Left m ouse button, press the Right Directional pad button on ur keyboard to move your playlist to the right. Keep doing this till you reached the end of your song. (To deselect, Left click on that same bar once... but dont do that just yet.) Now you have your song selected. Go to the menu bar, where you see (File Edit Channels View etc...) click on, Edit and Cut. Once you cut the song you can deselect. Now insert your intro. You'll need to change your Playlist icon to the paintbucket. Here's the tricky part... Pasting. To paste move Scroller... the thing above the Numeral Bar(1 3 5 9 etc...) Move the Scroll Bar so that the beginning of ur song starts on that first line. Example: If you wanted to paste on the 5 line... Move the bar alittle before the 5 line, but not exactly on it. Expierment with it and you'll get the hang of it.
Baddox	Date: May 12, 2005 @ 4:46 PM Great, I'll try this when I get home--the right directional arrow is probably what I want, because I've tried to cut, then change position, then paste, but it would always paste in the same spot. Thanks a lot.
Baddox	Date: May 18, 2005 @ 5:30 PM Hitting the right directional arrows with the whole playlist selected doesn't work to move the bars. All I need to do is insert one bar of clicks at the beginning of the song so I can export it as wav and record over it with a seperate multitracking software.
jtorius	Date: June 3, 2005 @ 12:11 AM hmm, so one bar eh? if what u have is a series of notes in piano roll, u could press (ctrl then a) to highlight all the notes and simply hold a note and drag it back a bar's length
Baddox	Date: June 3, 2005 @ 2:06 PM Thank you everyone for the help! In conclusion, if anyone reads this thread later, the way I got it to work (with the help of the nice folks here), is to go to the Playlist, ctrl-a to select all, then point to the left edge of the first pattern in the playlist so the cursor turns to a right/left arrow, then drag the pattern to the right. All the other selected patters will follow.

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