Shifting audio within region not working

I remember reading a post that said it was possible to shift audio within a region by holding ctrl and resizing the regions (or using the highlight bar). I’ve tried both methods and it just causes the region to be resized.

Am I missing a setting?

This is not working for me here any more, either. It appears to have been broken since around 7.0.

Ah, no, it was changed from <Ctrl>+drag on the highlight bar/trim region to <Ctrl>+<Shift>+drag anywhere in the region in 6.8.

I should have remembered this: I just found the manual entry for this feature, and I have a feeling it was actually me that wrote that page :slight_smile:

It’s configurable “Slip Contents using:

So it’s also possible that you had configured Ardour 6 to have a different shortcut.

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Excellent, thank you both!

I think there might be a bug here, or perhaps I’m misunderstanding how this works. I shift the audio but when I play back the region I hear the original (unshifted) audio. I’m on A8.7

Here’s a video demonstrating the problem - https://filedn.eu/larUQgXOwVjQdvpPaD96lHH/2024-10-09%2017-55-23.mkv

It could have bit-rotted, and the signal that is sent after the edit is ignored, or no signal is sent at all.

Fixed in git, and the next nightly builds. Thanks for the alert!

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It is caused by not invalidating the region-cache. Mea culpa.

This only affects multi-channel regions (mono is fine), and making some other unrelated change (changing region-fade, region-gain, …) or locating the playhead (a larger distance than Preferences > Performance > Disk I/O Buffering across the region), makes the region play properly.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

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Ah that makes sense, I’m doing this kind of unusual stuff :slight_smile: