If in Session Properties “Midi regions copies are independent” is disabled, copies are linked and can be unlinked in draw mode, right-click, Midi , “unlink regions”.
Can i do the opposite and link regions, so if i edit one, the changes will apply to the now linked regions too?
(after they were created usually not being linked by the setting in Session Properties).
I can imagine that linking an existing (not-linked) copy can bring difficulties (e.g. what to do if the copies are not identical?), but I can’t see any downside in having something like “copy linked”, to copy a region and set only this new copy as linked.
Also a visual hint to know if the region is linked (for example the usual chain symbol) would be very useful (I think it was already asked some time ago).
Independent MIDI regions have their own MIDI files. Linking would be equivalent to (a) delete one of the two regions (b) copy the other region (c) add it to the playlist in the same position as the deleted region. So it could be done, but there’s no builtin operation to do this. Lua could be used …
Thanks to both of you.
I see.
I will have to make up my mind then if i need it often enough so it is worth to enable them being linked in Session Properties (i was pretty happy when it was not default anymore, perhaps i didn’t know about it then), then just unlink them when needed, or if i will use another workaround. Easy use case, so not hard to find a workaround.