I just spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to insert a 0.5 second clip of background noise into a multitrack session.
I started by opening up a 0.5 second gap in all the tracks. Next, I positioned the playback head (don't remember what it's traditionally called) at the start of the gap. Finally, I tried to insert the file which had the background noise...in multiple ways, every one of which failed. In that nothing appeared to be inserted anywhere.
What I finally ended up doing was creating a dummy track, dragging the WAV file onto the track, highlighting a 0.5 second section of it, cut it, switched to the track where I wanted to insert it and clicked paste.
Which seems more than slightly ridiculous. Surely there's a better/easier way?
Oddly, a web search turned up nothing useful. Yes, there were some links...most of which were complaints or warnings about files being inserted at the beginning of tracks, the end of tracks, basically anywhere but where the playhead was. Or they were instructions which, when I copied them, also produced no results.
Thanx in advance for any help you can route my way.
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