Replace chord by drag and drop

Scaler 3 General Discussion
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I’m trying to replace a chord by dragging the new chord over the chord I want to replace but it’s not working. I can only place it inbetween two chords. What I see in the tutorial videos is that an outline should appear arround the chord I drag it over, but I only get the vertical line between chords. What am I doing wrong?

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On Windows here. I was able to get the chord to replace after some different attempts. By carefully dragging the new chord over the existing one and sliding slightly to the right (almost halfway) until the chord to be replaced had white border around all sides, it would work.

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Hello @Maarten_Albers and welcome to the forum.

@EdZbflat, yes, this is the correct way to do the replacement. As you mentioned “slightly to the right”. It works also by sliding a bit to the left. The position of the cursor is important. When you see it exectly between two chords, it will be inserted.
If over a chords (no cursor visible), the chord will be replaced.
With some practice, I made it work :slight_smile:

This is the video with these examples (left, then right, to insert, then over the chord to replace. I moved chords quite slowly for pedagogical reasons :slight_smile:

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Thanks guys. Eventually I was able to do it. It seems that the chord I wanted to replace was having trouble with a tool-tip pop up. But it’s not as responsive as you would like. It seems also the vertical line doesn’t want to loose focus once it’s showing…

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I am unable to position the cursor over the chord, because the cursor is snapping to the grid. I can only insert before or after.

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I know that this is not intuitive, but it works. Just move the chord slowly and you’ll be able to do this correctly. In fact, as I show in the clip, you should see the entire border of a chord highlighted, instead of the cursor. This happens a little bit after you cover half of the chord to be replaced. That’s when I “jump” up and down with chord. This, of course, is just to show you the situation, it is not necessary to really “jump” to replace a chord :grinning_face: .

Drag Chord over another

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Regarding dragging and dropping chords, I think an snapping effect could be added. When I place a new chord on top of another chord and want to replace it, there should be a snapping feeling as I drag the mouse over. This would help prevent such mistakes.At first, I was also troubled by the chord replacement in SCALER 3.0, which was very uncomfortable. In fact, in Scaler 2, dragging and dropping chords was very smooth.