Solved Paste at selection and overwrite what is selected

[Arlack]

*Points at the title*
In Audacity, and Pro Tools if I select a section of my track, and paste, it overwrites what is there with what I want to paste. That is the functionality I want.
I'm doing Audiobook narration and I frequently paste a pause between sentences, while recording I have a clicker to note it for quick edits.
I really just want to highlight a section, hit ctrl+v and have what is selected turn into what was copied.

 

[lokeyfly]

Can you detail where this is failing? There's certainly no issue copying and pasting in Studio One. Be it automation, notes, basically any cooy/paste routine. Paste will overwrite what is there. A section of a track will paste. Perhaps you're not highlighting the necessary area or events to properly copy, or you've somehow lost focus of that buffer.
A short video could really help understand your issue, because I've not come across that with S1.

Also, please add your specs in your Sig. TY

 

[Arlack]

I just installed the program as a demo.

I selected import files from templates, and selected my mp3 I exported from Audacity.

Left click drag to select the area to copy, push ctrl c, left click select the area to paste, hit ctrl v.

It copies the section at the track marker(In case I'm calling it something wrong - the white line on the track), not the highlighted area.

The only thing I've done is toggle ripple edit. Though without it, it does the same thing but just overwrites from the track marker.

 

[Lukas]

In Studio One, data is always pasted at the play cursor (that's what it's called in Studio One - or just cursor). The only exception is "Paste at Original Position" (Ctrl+Shift+V).

So the behaviour you describe is not a standard behaviour in Studio One. If I understand you correctly, you can achieve the desired result as follows

Copy the data you want. Then:

- Make sure Ripple Edit is enabled
- With a selection selected, press L ("Locate Selection"). This will move the cursor to the selection.
- Press Delete. This will delete the selected area and (because Ripple Edit is on) close the gap.
- Press Ctrl+V. This will insert at the cursor position and (because Ripple Edit is enabled) move all the data on the track to the right.



If you do this a lot, you can combine these 4 steps into a macro. Then you can do this with just one shortcut (or toolbar button).

 

[Arlack]

Thank you very much for the help Lukas. I do it a metric butt load, so yeah I'll look at a macro then. Would be nice if there were an option to not have to do all of that though. :-D

 

[Lukas]

Yes, but I think it's great that a functionality that's not there out of the box can be easily created with a macro.

I've uploaded the macro to PreSonus Exchange. You can open the Cloud tab in the Studio One Browser, select "PreSonus Exchange" and enter "ripple insert" into the search field. Then you'll be able to download my macro and assign a hotkey to it.

 

[lokeyfly]

Left click drag to select the area to copy, push ctrl c, left click select the area to paste, hit ctrl v.

The key commands are fine. ....

It copies the section at the track marker(In case I'm calling it something wrong - the white line on the track), not the highlighted area.

Always set Play cursor. This is important as resetting the cursor sets up the location for paste to happen. Lukas suggestion for setting the cursor with locate selection works great if you want paste to happen right at that spot, so for that a macro could be created.

Apologies for the delay. Deep into some songs.