How to move a region freely, or smoothly

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How to move a region freely, or smoothly

Super basic question, but how do I move an audio region, or the curser, freely, without it clicking as I move it? I just can't find a preference setting to turn this off.

Posted on Jan 12, 2014 9:37 PM

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kcstudio

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Jan 12, 2014 10:06 PM in response to Cartoonguy

Hi, for fine adjustments of this sort you could try this: click/hold region, now press/hold cntrl (I think) and adjust….

Have a nice day!

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kcstudio

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Jan 12, 2014 10:12 PM in response to kcstudio

......and I wouldn't at all be surprised if you had to turn on the super user setting, namely: Show Advanced Tool before hand! 😎

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Cartoonguy Author

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Jan 12, 2014 10:53 PM in response to kcstudio

Thank you. This does work, but I would really like to be able to make it that way without a key needing to be pressed to activate it. Hopefully there is way, but glad to know about this workaround for now. Cheers.

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seeren

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Jan 12, 2014 11:25 PM in response to Cartoonguy

You need to show them advanced preferences... then in the upper right of the arrange area is a menu for snap, in which you can turn it off.

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Cartoonguy Author

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Jan 13, 2014 9:39 AM in response to seeren

Ah, thank you. "Snap" is the word I was grappling for.

Turns out, using that menu effectively turns it off, but you can't turn it off completely, just setting it to Samples makes it very fine, so that it's like it's turned off. For those reading this, to be clear, it's found in the menu on the top right of the screen, not in the normal menu bar, but on the application window. Not sure why Logic has menus there rather than where we expect them to be, but once you know, you know.

Thanks for the feedback.

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