What's the opposite of "insert time"?

Getting Stuff Done How do I .... ?
#1

I can insert time, but how do I remove time?

After adding time to the beginning of a session in order to facilitate a countdown for live recording, I want to remove the time I added when I’m done.

#2

If it is just at the beginning of the session, the easy way is to simply move the START marker to the start of your actual session.

Seablade

#3

That’s what I did, and that’s good enough. But I was wondering (because I live on the border between conscientious and anal, heh heh heh) if it’s possible to perform the opposite of insert time.

If not, no biggie.

#4

You can create a region of the count-in for each track, remove that and move the remainder of the tracks to the beginning.
But that won’t give you any benefits over moving the marker and will just be a lot off unnecessary, time-consuming work.

#5

Well, for something like only four measures, I’d just move the start marker and call it quits.

But what if I need, for whatever reason, to slice off the first half of a session? Wouldn’t it be more elegant to be able to get rid of everything prior to a chosen point?

#6

Well any time I have needed to do this, I have moved the start marker. It is just nice and easy.

Seablade

1 Like
#7

Alright, then this is my feature suggestion: the ability to delete sections from a session and close the gap that deletion causes! :slight_smile:

#8

Then you want the splice edit mode, which is in Ardour but doesn’t work:) I suspect you also want the automation to follow the regions when this happens, which I believe is in A3.

 Seablade
1 Like