Inserting and deleting bars
Inserting or deleting a bar changes the whole song at once: every track, and everything placed in time after it, moves together. Use it to lengthen an intro by a bar, add a bar of rest before a chorus, or cut a section short.
Inserting and deleting bars
Available on every platform.
Insert a bar
Right-click the ruler of an Editor or Arranger pane on a bar, and choose Insert Bar Before. An empty bar goes in before that one, in the time signature of the bar before it (before the first bar, in the first bar’s, keeping the song’s first tempo and key), and everything from there on moves a bar later:
- the clips (a clip that runs across the place is cut in two there, the second part moved later), and the automation;
- the markers, and the tempo, time and key changes;
- Smart Clips and playlist steps, which grow by a bar where they run across it.
Before the first bar works too. A song that starts with a pickup gets a whole bar before it, in the signature of the first whole bar; the pickup then plays as a short bar of its own.
Delete a bar
On the bar to remove, choose Delete Bar from the same menu. What’s in it goes: the notes, the markers and the tempo, time and key changes in it; clips running into it are cut at its edges. Everything after it moves a bar earlier, and the tempo, time signature and key in force after it carry on from where it began.
Several bars at once
In the Chart, pick a range of bars and choose Delete Bars from its menu to delete them all in one go. The Chart’s Insert Bar Before works as the ruler’s does, and Repeat Bars can insert bars for the repeats.
When it isn’t available
Both are greyed out where a song has sync pins at or after the bar: a recording’s beats are where they are, so the bars round them can’t move.
Inserting or deleting is one undo step, whatever it moved.