Cut, Copy, Paste, Insert and Delete

The Copy function CTRL-C

Copy
copies your selected area into MIDI Locator's internal clipboard.



The Paste function CTRL-V

MIDI Locator
's internal clipboard can be pasted at another place with Paste. The new upper left corner of the data will become the current position of the blinking cursor, or, if you currently have a selection instead of a blinking cursor, it will become the upper left corner of your current selection. In that case, the pasted data is bounded by the selection's width and hight, additionally.

If you try to copy and paste the first time, please release your selection after copying by Select none and place your cursor to the new destination. Otherwise the new upper left corner will become the upper left corner of the current selection (of your copy-area defining selection). That means that your data will be pasted exactly where you have copied it. This would double every event in your selection.

The Paste function is realised as a mixing paste, that means that MIDI data which stand under the place where you are pasting is not removed. The new pasted data is overdupped at this place. If you want to make free room before a Paste use MIDI Locator's Insert function :


The Insert function INS

If you want to make free space between measures inside a MIDI song by moving a complete one half of your MIDI data to the right : Make a selection which covers your amount of needed measures. Then call the Insert function.


Workspace with selection covering some measures across many tracks


Workspace with empty selection after pressing INS

Insert is reachable by menu's entry Ins(ert) or the INS key on your PC keyboard.

The Cut function CTRL-X

Cut
is freeing your selected area from MIDI events. The MIDI events which have been removed are filled into MIDI Locator's internal clipboard which can be pasted at another place with the Paste function.

   



Please note that the right handed data has not been moved to the left.

Cut is only reachable by menu's entry Cut.


Drag & Drop

You can cut and paste a selection's content in a single step by clicking the mouse button one time after creating the selection. If you now move the selection and release it at another place, the old selection's content will be (mix-)pasted at the new place.

   
 Click the left mouse button one time and hold it  then the underlying MIDI events seem to disappear




   
 then move the mouse and therefore the selection rectangle  release the mouse button and you have placed the MIDI events to this new position



You can use MIDI Locator's Undo function if you want to replace the moved data to it's old source position (press Undo 2 times : 1. time undoes the internal happened Paste, the 2. undoes the Cut).


The Delete function DEL

Please distinguish inside MIDI Locator between two erasing functions : Delete and Cut.

Delete is emptying your selected area from MIDI events, and moves the right handed tracks to the space which became free :

   




Delete
is reachable by menu's entry Del and also by the Del key on your PC keyboard.