1.2 merge drop

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  1. 1TAPE
  2. 2SHIFT + LIFT
  3. 3T1 / T2 / T3 / T4
  4. 4SHIFT + DROP

1.2.1 merge drop introduction

type: drop lifted tracks as one mix · by maiko

Drops what you lifted onto the selected track as one mix. Lift all four tracks with SHIFT + LIFT, pick a track, and SHIFT + DROP puts all four on it, mixed together, at the playhead.

Lift a single track with LIFT and SHIFT + DROP is simply a DROP onto the selected track, whichever track it came from.

The tape screen with the MERGE popup
merge drop
Tracks lifted over the loop, then their mix on track 4
lift all, then merged onto track 4

1.2.2 opening merge drop

step 1

TAPE

+

step 2

SHIFT + LIFT

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step 3

T1 / T2 / T3 / T4

+

step 4

SHIFT + DROP

Tape mode. SHIFT + LIFT (or LIFT), select the track to drop onto, then SHIFT + DROP.

1.2.3 keys

+

SHIFT + LIFT

TE's lift all: the four tracks over the loop into the clipboard. Needs the loop on, shorter than about 22 s, with audio inside

LIFT

or lift one track, as usual

+

SHIFT + DROP

merge drop: the clipboard mixed onto the selected track at the playhead

+

TAPE + ←

undo it: the whole merge is one step

1.2.4 the mix

The mix replaces what was on the track in that stretch, the way a DROP does: the track's old audio there isn't part of it.

Tracks are mixed as recorded: the mixer's volume and pan aren't applied. If the sum would clip anywhere, the whole mix goes through a soft limiter; otherwise it is the exact sum.

1.2.5 tips

  • A MERGE popup shows for about a second. No popup means it was refused: while recording, with an empty clipboard, or when the drop would run past the end of the tape.
  • With the tape stopped, the playhead moves to the end of the drop, as after TE's DROP.
  • If the playhead is inside the edited part while playing, you hear a short dropout, the same as after TE's own DROP.