Useless complaining about Izotope RX 6

[jdickens]

Someone tell me I'm wrong.
There used to be functionality where you make a selection, hold down Alt, and you can drag the selection, and keep it restrained in the frequency domain.

Terrific if you can't fix an area any other way, and you decide to just copy and paste over it.

But now, try as I might, I go to drag the selection (which has been copied) and it will naturally slide all over the time and frequency domain, so when I go to paste it, it's a semitone or two down. Oops!

Am I supposed to have a high-tech mouse? Or am I relegated to copying the bounds of the frequency as text and pasting it in to the selection text box before I paste? Possibly for dozens of repairs. Argh.

J

[whyterabbyt]

Someone tell me I'm wrong.
There used to be functionality where you make a selection, hold down Alt, and you can drag the selection, and keep it restrained in the frequency domain.

Ive not got RX6 but the RX5 Keyboard shortcuts page says this

Alt (hold with selection) : Remove the current Alt selection area from any previous selection

The documents reflect that in the section 'Understanding Selection Modifiers'.

Subtract [Alt/Option]

Holding down Alt/Option will allow you use the currently chosen selection tool to remove or erase any portion of an existing audio selection. This can be especially useful with the Lasso or Brush tools, allowing you to edit or refine any piece of an existing selection.

Holding Alt/Option effectively turns the Brush tool into a selection eraser for broad refinements and Lasso into a selection "X-Acto knife" for detailed selection revision.

I cant see an obvious reference to what you're talking about there, sorry.

[ericzang]

Does this do what you are asking?:
make your selection
press T (no need to hold) before dragging to lock vertical movement (F locks horizontally).

Funny thing is, I don't know how to replicate your unwanted result of pasting a semi tone or so up or down. It always pastes the copied selection at the original frequency, without even needing to drag the selection. It pastes where ever I place the cursor along the time line.

I'm on RX6 standard.

[whyterabbyt]

Does this do what you are asking?:
make your selection
press T (no need to hold) before dragging to lock vertical movement (F locks horizontally).

Funny thing is, I don't know how to replicate your unwanted result of pasting a semi tone or so up or down. It always pastes the copied selection at the original frequency, without even needing to drag the selection. It pastes where ever I place the cursor along the time line.

I'm on RX6 standard.

FWIW, confirming all of this on RX5 standard.

[Jace-BeOS]

There are a couple of buttons for selection mode down the bottom of the screen too. One is frequency; another is time, and there's also a freeform selection tool.

[jdickens]

Does this do what you are asking?:
make your selection
press T (no need to hold) before dragging to lock vertical movement (F locks horizontally).

Funny thing is, I don't know how to replicate your unwanted result of pasting a semi tone or so up or down. It always pastes the copied selection at the original frequency, without even needing to drag the selection. It pastes where ever I place the cursor along the time line.

I'm on RX6 standard.

Thank you. This is what I get for working late at night. I was at my wit's end, but I was just in the wrong selection tool.

Thanks for the other responses, too, which were useful.

*life saved*

J