Wierd object behavior ? Help

[Rogomatic]

Hi Everyone This is a copy and paste of My message on the Samplitude Forum that was been up for A week now, and no replies maybe someone hear can help .... here it is;
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I have only had Samplitude 7.12 for a week or so.. I love it, but help me here on this
Say there is large object on a track (10 sec long) and a 1 second object to it's right, and If I select the
little object on the right with my mouse and drag it to the left (dragging over the large object) wanting to place it in the middle of the large object, the size of the large object gets shrunk as the little object drags over it . In Cubase/Nuendo, it would just be a little object sitting on top of the big object after dragging.

I have found a work-around using Copy/ insert but would love to just select and drag. I'v tried all mouse and object modes, unlink track... But maybe I'm missing something ?

2. Also, Dragging small object over big object (from right to left) puts the small object "behind" the bigger object . But dragging small object over bigger object (from right to left) puts the small object on top of the bigger object (shrinking big object's size as you drag). I would think it should just always be "on top" of what it is being drug over What an I missing?

3.
Last Question, In cubase there is an option for delete overlapping objects or not to so when you move or shorten the size of an object (say a punch in) what was underneath would still be there (with out having to re-drag it's end points back out Does Samplitude have this option and I just havn't found it?

Thank you so much for any info you can share with me
Roger
ps. I'm using normal object mode, universal vip mouse mode, but have tried all others

[Joe Hannigan]

I'm unclear on why you would want to do this in the first place. (Putting one object "on top of" another just forces an automatic cross-fade, does it not?)

If you really need to hear one with the other (or separately), perhaps it's easier to just create a new track directly below the original track, making the parameters match (or simply cloning it), then you can put the two objects anywhere you want, relative to each other.

Samplitude will give you unlimited tracks, so there's no real need to "Double up" on waveforms this way, I think..... (Unless I'm completely missing your point here....)

[Rogomatic]

I'm taking about drop and drag editing, for instance say on vs.1 The drum kit (5 tracks grouped) has 1 sloppy measure, but then the rest of the song is fine, What I would do in Nuendo/Cubase is grab a "good" measure, say on same place of song, but vs 2,Then I would split the drum tracks into 1 measure to become it's own object, then with mouse Click /cntrl drag (Move duplicate)it to vs 1 area replacing (putting over) "bad' drum measure. But in Samplitude the 5 tracks of Audio dissapear as I drag that one measure to the left. when I'm done there is a big whole in the song between the two one measure objects.
Try ir yourself and see.
I know I can range copy paste but I'd the option to do the other also

[MtnMixer]

Looks like you just have to cut out the bad notes and replace them with a copy of the correct notes or select and split the bad sections and mute or delete them and run the good stuff on another track. Time consuming but it works. There might be a better way to do this but I haven't discovered it, yet.