Arrange Page - How to Insert a Bar into a Composition

Scaler 3 General Discussion
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Environment: Windows 11, Scaler 3.1 Standalone

Objective: add one or more empty bars to my composition so I can develop an intro or add a verse / chorus / whatever. I didn’t find an example in the manual and struggled enough with the task so thought I’d share what worked for me. Ended up editing was similar to my DAW’s behavior.

I have a composition I am working on. I like what I’ve accomplished and so far remaining in Standalone - not relying on my Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio DAW at all.

What works for me:

  1. shrink the Arrange view and adjust the Main Track height so you can see the affected part of the composition
  2. lassoing (use the cursor) all of the tracks (Main Melody, Bass, Chord Follow, Arpeggio)
  3. drag the selection to a new position opening up space to add items
    This works well for me so far, preserving track content.
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Got it @macx Would be nice to have an ‘Insert Silence’. You can create a rest (select it in the Suggest Page) and insert it into timeline as a workaround.

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I forgot about the rest! Thanks - that should work just fine.