I was working on a chorus part for a song, I had worked out all the chords and placed them, but then when I went to the arrange page, I wanted to resize some of the chords, changing a few that started at the start of the bar to a push feel coming in 1/8th ahead. But then of course this created gaps in my chords on the arrange page. This seems to be an intermittent bug, but for example when I had a gap, I had the next chord, an Amaj and when I dragged it to fill in the space, it changed to a Dmaj9 for whatever reason.
I don’t really understand why it is doing this, and it is intermittent, as, when I closed the scaler window (in Studio One Pro 7) and then reopened it, and then dragged the Amaj slowly to fill the gap, it then stayed as an Amaj and didn’t change to a Dmaj9.
Unless there is some trick to moving chords (noting that when I move a chord, I want it to stay the same chord), this is clearly a bug and it would be great to get it fixed.
To reproduce I suspect you just need to resize chords in the arrange page and then if you drag a chord to fill in the gap, it intermittently changes chord without rhyme or reason.
If you need to remove the gaps, select one or more chords, including the gaps, with a lasso, then right click on any selected chord and select the option Remove Empty Spaces.
BTW, I also moved the chords after the gaps manually and they all stayed as they were before moving. I used standalone and Reaper.
However,there is a problem that I want Davide and @Tristan to check.
If i select chords and empty spaces by doing lasso that does not include all chords, the Remove Empty Spaces option will create an additional gap after the selection.
@Miki this sounds correct to me. By removing empty space with only a few chords selected, it is moving the selected chords to the left so they are up next to each other, which creates empty space elsewhere. Unless the chords are resized, the empty space that has been removed needs to end up somewhere. So it ends up at the end of the chords which have been moved.
I agree with you That’s why I mentioned that Select all will help. This will be great option, not only in the present case, but in many other cases. I have never thought about resizing a chord after removing empty spaces, but I could use it sometimes as well.
