Copying Beat Mapping Info from Tempo track

Hey all.
Does anyone know how I can copy and paste tempo mapping info? I tried rubber-banding the info from the tempo track while holding down the control keys (like the manual says) and it doesn't work.
Everytime that I drag and copy the audio loop, it's not covering my first measure....
I'm working with a 4 bar breakbeat, so it's imperative that all of the same tempo is constant every four bars.

Dan, curious to know what kind of trouble you had, because beat mapping works in essentially the same way whether your source is a MIDI or audio region. Assuming we're talking about just one region (for simplicity's sake)... if you're beatmapping a MIDI region, you should SMPTE-lock the region so that its timing doesn't change. Beatmapping the notes will then force them to appear onto a musical grid by way of calculating tempo changes between the beatmap lines.
Now, let's say you print that piano part as audio. Now you have parallel, concurrent MIDI and audio regions. Other than clicking the analyze button, beatmapping works essentially the same way, except you now have many more potential choices of points to beatmap to (which results in potentially more work/less accuracy). That aside, you would still have to lock the MIDI region so that you preserve the timing of the performance.
Not sure if there's still a function in L9's beatmapping area called "preserve MIDI", but if so I'd disregard this and use SMPTE-locking as the method for preserving the timing of the original MIDI track. I say this because "preserve MIDI" never quite worked as expected in L8 (or L7 for that matter) so I'd be gunshy of it. Anyway, SMPTE-locking regions is tantamount to the same thing.

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