This has always bothered me because I don't think theres a way to do it.
In Reason theres an insert bars between locators option.
You pick the bars and it will take everything and stretch it.

In FL you can highlight the blocks in the sequencer and drag them to do this. But with the automations you can only cut them, than drag them out.

Because you wind up with duplicate automations in FL when you automate a dup it automatically automates the original.

I guess my question is more for the automations. Is there a way to avoid this? Otherwise you literally have to manually go in and stretch each automation which is really annoying.

Thanks!

Highlight the automations, scroll over the end of one and you will see the mouse icon turn into the elongation symbol, pull to desired length and enjoy.

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Originally posted by Stef Highlight the automations, scroll over the end of one and you will see the mouse icon turn into the elongation symbol, pull to desired length and enjoy.

Yeh thats to stretch them all at once.

Say for example I have 5 automations from bar 1-100.

And I want to add 8 bars between bars 50-58.
Is there a way to highlight bars 50-58 and stretch the automations somewhere in the middle of the bars?

Because if I'm working on a track and have automations drawn in, than want to add 8 bars somewhere, it throws off all the previously drawn in automations.
Like saying this is an automation: /\/\/\/\/\

And its 5 bars with each /\ being a 1 bar automation.
But now I want to add a bar after bar 2 to give me 6 bars that look like this /\/\_/\/\/\
with _ being the new automation area added.

One you slice you can no longer automate the second half without affecting the first! Hope I'm not driving people crazy but its real basic and after you have 20 automations drawn in its hell doing this manually.

Guessing this can't be done.
Reason does it in 2 steps, I'm gonna go post it as a recommendation on FLs forums. See what they say there.

They'll probably tell you FL chan is more a priority than Automatic PDC

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Originally posted by Ry Thomas They'll probably tell you FL chan is more a priority than Automatic PDC

FL chan? hmm, not even sure what that is.

a cartoon character.

I was told this personally from an FL designer, needless to say i use cubase now

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Originally posted by Ry Thomas a cartoon character. I was told this personally from an FL designer, needless to say i use cubase now

Holy shit. A cartoon character? Are they trying to attract 5 year olds or music developers?

I'm going to find out for sure why such a simple important feature doesn't exist.

Google 'FL Chan'

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Originally posted by Ry Thomas a cartoon character. I was told this personally from an FL designer, needless to say i use cubase now

Its just ridiculous how shit the software has become over last two years.

I wouldnt be surprised to find out that their two big poster boys breakfast and maor levi dont even use it anymore.

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Under the automation clip properties click "Make Unique".

Just to follow up: you need to open up the link controller window and add the new link.

If you do not do this then the automation clip is assigned to nothing. I can make some pictures if needed.