Paste places the contents of the clipboard into the current document. There are two ways to determine where the music gets pasted. By default, FreeStyle places the music in the same measure that the wiper is in and maintains the relationship the music originally had with the bar line. In other words, if the music you copied started on beat three of the measure it was in, then it will be placed at beat three of whatever measure the wiper is in. This is called “measure-relative” pasting, and it makes copying and pasting quick and easy. It lets you quickly duplicate chunks of music without needing to precisely position the wiper.
In some situations, you may prefer to have more control over the exact location where the music is placed. If you un-check “Paste measure relative” in the General section of the Preferences dialog, FreeStyle will paste relative to the current brush/cursor grid setting, rather than the bar line. For example, if you copied a note that began on beat three plus a sixteenth note, then pasted with a grid setting of one quarter note with the wiper near beat two, the note would be placed at beat two plus a sixteenth note, thus maintaining its original relationship to a quarter note grid.
