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-title: Independent and Dependent MIDI Region Copies
-menu_title: Copy MIDI Region
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-
-<p>
- When <dfn>copying a MIDI region</dfn>, Ardour has to decide whether to make the
- copy refer to the same data as the original or not. If it does refer
- to the same data, then editing either the copy or the original will
- affect the both of them. If it refers to an independent copy of the
- data then each one can be edited without affecting the other.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Changing dependent/independent copying for the entire session</h2>
-
-<p>
- <kbd class="menu">Sesson > Properties > Misc > MIDI region copies are
- independent</kbd> can be used to control the default behaviour when
- making a copy of a MIDI region.
-</p>
-<p>
- When enabled, every new copy of a MIDI
- region results in a copy being made of the MIDI data used by the
- region, and the new copy of the region will refer to that data.
-</p>
-<p>
- When disabled, every new copy of a MIDI region will refer to the same
- MIDI data, and thus editing any copy will change the contents of all
- of them.
-</p>
-<p>
- Changing the status of this option has no effect on the existing
- dependent/independent status of existing region copies.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Making an existing copy of a MIDI region independent</h2>
-<p>
- Context-click on the MIDI region you want to be
- independent. From the context menu, select <kbd class="menu">MIDI > Unlink From
- Other Copies</kbd>. The copy is now using an independent version of
- the data, and edits to the copy will affect only the copy. Other
- copies will continue to share data.
-</p>
-
-<p class="note">
- Note that the copied data only covers the extent of the region when
- the copy is made. If the region was already trimmed and then a copy
- is made, an independent copy will have no access to data that is
- earlier or later than the bounds of the region it was copied
- from. Put differently, if you make an independent copy of a trimmed
- MIDI region, you cannot "untrim" it to a larger size.
-</p>