2 steps is still too many!
not to fall into necro thread pitfall but it’s been years, we have DTII now but i completely agree and i still hate how it works.
assuming you’re on the track you want to copy:
- trk + copy
- swap to other track
- trk + paste
- go back to first track
- enter grid mode
- fn + copy
- exit grid mode
- swap to the other track
- enter grid mode
- fn + paste
- (exit grid mode)
that’s 15 keypresses in total!
and naturally every button “combo” is of course prone to human error, the more you have to do it, the higher the chances of an error, not the best UX imo. i’d prefer literally having a menu item, super straight forward “copy all” and “paste all” without any key combos, even if it’s more keypresses (because it’s hard to mess things up browsing the UI menu)
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Yeah it’s less than ideal.
Only thing I would say is I don’t think you don’t need to exit and enter grid mode to copy the sequence data.
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Super copy ! Track + Func + Copy
With Midi track it is even worse : you have to set the track to midi machine before pasting preset.
You don’t have to exit grid rec mode.
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of course not, then it’s 14 keypresses if you don’t count the last one, but i just assumed as the last step, one may possibly want to continue doing anything else besides entering new trigs to the freshly duplicated track (like resetting the previous track because now you have 2 identical copies) so realistically that counts
if you mean the “exit grid mode” before “swap to the other track” even if you don’t have to exit before swapping to the new track, there will still be another keypress because you’ll need to press Trk + number instead of exit and then track number, (otherwise it’ll input a trigger you know since you’re already in the grid mode) so i stand my case of the whole process being 15 keypresses
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Too close to the mute stuff!
I wouldn’t be against a long-press of FUNC+REC to bring up a mini menu for all copy-paste options: Copy pattern, Copy preset, Copy seq, Copy track (preset+seq). The menu could even stay onscreen when switching to the paste destination (another track or pattern) and the menu text changes from Copy to Paste options. Could work…? I’m not thinking this idea through much so it’s prob massively flawed 
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Nah it is totally different: the exact opposite! 
For me it make sense to press the Track button firstly to Super Copy it…
+1 for a menu…
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Not being able to quickly copy a track and all its machine and sequencer data in one go is something I’ve definitely been wishing for a lot since getting the DT2. I keep a pretty strict track layout with all my patterns so I always know which is the bassline, which is the lead, etc. I do a lot of inter-pattern copying to keep things similar so +1 from me.
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