relocate gain-automation?

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#1

Hello,
I use Ardour now for some times and also worked with other DAW. May I didn’t find this function yet, so I ask here:

Is there an easy way to relocate the gain-automation which is on the track bound?

(I realized that it is possible in the region to; now I know. This manual http://en.flossmanuals.net/Ardour/MovingAutomation , which helped me says no.)

What I really would like to be able to do: grab more than one volume-dot at a time, get it marked and then drag and drop them - for example with a marked region; or copy the curve to another segment, where I want to use the same automation. I know that it is possible in Steinbergs Cubase/Nuendo. Is there something like that in Ardour?

#2

@medienauditiv: regular edit operations work with automation. just be in object mouse mode. drag a rectangle to select multiple points, then use Ctrl-x, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v to cut,copy,paste, or drag on one of the points to move them all.

#3

Further work has been done by Carl in Ardour3 to help with this as well IIRC, however obviously A3 is not yet released.

Seablade
#4

thanks for answering. I use Ubuntu 9.10. and the Ardour2-version from the repositiories: v2.8.2. There it doesn’t seem to work. But maybe that’s only because it’s not up-to-date. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid comes soon and with that a newer version…

EDIT: I updated now to the v2.8.6 - but still the same result.
@Paul: i use the finger-icon and then drag a rectangular around the dots on the fader-track; this works all right, they change into green; but if i drag something, they just keep in place - and if I try to move one of them, only this one is moved and not the others :frowning:
@seablade: when is ardour3 released? And english is not my mothertongue, so I hope I understand your sentence right; I googled the iirc…
EDIT2: it somehow seem to work; but only, if I give a startpoint at the fader-automation-track and then paste. I can move the marked points (after dragging the line in between) in amplitude, but not in time. When I cut (crtl+x) some automation points and a region and I paste, only the region appears again. With a dot in the fader-space, also only the curve is pasted and appears again.