How to join events in Acid Pro 3?

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When I highlight the events and pick join from the pulldown, they are joined, but only until the highlight is turned off. The help menu says to highlight the events, pick join, and click on them with the paintbrush and drag it across the events. If I do that all but the first event in the sequence disappears. WTF?
 
The only time I use the join function (ctrl-j) on a waveform is after I accidentally split (ctrl-s) the waveform.

The problem you encountered is the exact reason why I don't normally use the join function. :(

monty, what were you trying to ultimately accomplish when you used the join function?
 
To make several events stay in their relative position while sliding one of them, as well as insuring they stay in their relative positions in case I “accidentally” move one event. I do it with Cakewalk easily, but even Acid Pro 4 doesn’t like to do it. The events do join, but unwanted stuff gets written in the spaces between the events. Weird.
 
monty said:
To make several events stay in their relative position while sliding one of them, as well as insuring they stay in their relative positions in case I “accidentally” move one event. I do it with Cakewalk easily, but even Acid Pro 4 doesn’t like to do it. The events do join, but unwanted stuff gets written in the spaces between the events. Weird.
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You should highlight the waveforms you want to move with the left mouse button and CTRL key. Or.... Highlight the first waveform while holding the shift key highlight the last waveform 9everything in between the two points will become highlighted.

Is that leading you in the correct direction?
 
Spin- I think the complaint monty has is that, unlike the behavior of Cakewalk when joining clips on a track, Acid fills in the empty spaces between the joined clips with copies of the same clip.

What he's looking for is a way to join clips separated by silent sections and preserve the silent sections in the joined clip.
 
I found a workaround but it's MONDO cumbersome in comparison with the Cakewalk Protocol.

Take the joined clip and render to a new track.

Then insert THAT clip.

Spin: is there anything simpler?
 
Hey, very good! It's not cumbersome to the point of discomfort. You geek. :p Sure seems like there would be a more direct approach though, don't it? I downloaded Pro 4 to see if there had been any changes in that part of the program. No dice. Spin?
 
drstawl said:
....What he's looking for is a way to join clips separated by silent sections and preserve the silent sections in the joined clip.
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Oh, okay.
 
drstawl said:
I....Take the joined clip and render to a new track.

Then insert THAT clip.

Spin: is there anything simpler?
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Nope, there's nothing simpler. That is exactly how I would do it. :cool:

Render to new track, then use taht waveform.
 
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