No way to un-split a waveform

[Adam Sweet]

After splitting a waveform, there is no way to unsplit it.

Supposing you split a waveform, perform some editing which you don't want to lose by using undo and then decide that you don't want an instrument littered with unused splits, there is no way to unsplit, or re-join them again.

As discussed on IRC with laszlok and david_corrales, this is a nice idea in theory but also poses the problem of users trying to un-split an instrument after they have inserted another piece of audio, possibly in a different audio format between the split parts.

[Jean-Francois Arseneau (jf-arseneau)]

Perhaps there could be a "Merge" feature, where if you select multiple events (by ctrl+clicking on them or something) and then if you right-click on any of the selected events, you're given the option to "Merge", which fuses the events together in one. If there's any gaps, it could simply merge them in as empty parts of the event.

[Laszlo Pandy (laszlok)]

The problem with the merge feature is that events are only set up to have one section of a file that they are playing from. Attaching many clips together would require that the events on the backend be composed of many different gnlfilesources which would play many different files in order. This would take a lot of restructuring, and im not sure it is worth it. It is possible that some time in the future that restructuring would have to be done anyway to allow for advances looping and other stuff like that.