Yes John,
This I think is what Kaarlo is wanting to take two piano tracks and merge them into one. You can then just delete the track you have moved and free it up for further use.
Thanks Eileen,
Sorry, once again as so often I was not able to put in English what the issue is .
I am not trying to merge anything. With 16 ch available that need is very rare and in that case I will rather delete a less imortant channel than merge anything to free up a channel. 16 channels already sound like "a recording" not someone playing.
I am trying to put tracks in the standard order I have them in, in order to be able to use the mixer intuitively during playback. The base might have sounded ok at home but needs volume adjustment in a"boomy" gig environment. If channel order is not stadardized in the heat of the moment I will not move the right slider. I have done this reordering for decades on Midifile Optimizer. E.g. Melody on ch/track1, second voice on ch/track 2 rhythm guitar on 3 ..... base on 8 and of course leave drums on ch 10.
Genos relieves me of going to my PC to do that with a well laid our page. There is a
copy, there is a
transpose, there is a
delete function. Even a very good "undo" button. All very necessary as you may want to transpose the file to suit your voice which may make a track sound too low or high.
But there is no "move ch X to ch Y" function. You can copy channel X to channel Y in case Y is empty (and it will not copy if X to Y if Y is not empty, (but does not tell you why it did not)
Then after the first operation you have to delete X as the function is COPY not move, but the icon will change to piano, which is confusing to me as there is no piano in the empty ch and on other channels having the piano icon there is for instance left hand and right hand piano.
I trust a professonal programmer (that is what separates them from the mateurs, I do not say that to bash them, I am hard pressed even to record a chord progression, which btw was extremely easy on Technics) never to put left hand and right hand on the same channel as you might fot instance if you sing to the file want to change the boogiewoogie left hand piano to bass. It would be nice ito have a move function but more imortant an emptied channel show it is empty, NOT carrying the piano icon. A deleted bass turning into piano confuses me.
Additionally on my Genos it is
often from the very beginning in the copying procedure impossible to chose "source" and "destination" track, no amounta of clicking will let you override what the software has decided is "source" and what is "destination". Only power cycling will help.
Hope I was this time able to explain what I mean.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers
Kaarlo