Specifications
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To navigate and extend selections backward with
Tab to Transients:
• Press Control+Tab (Windows) or Option+Tab
(Mac) to move the Edit cursor to the previous
transient.
• Press Control+Shift+Tab (Windows) or Op-
tion+Shift+Tab (Mac) to extend the selection to
the previous transient.
Making an Edit Selection During
Playback
To make an Edit selection during playback:
1 Place the Edit cursor in the track or across mul-
tiple tracks where you want to make the selec-
tion.
2 Start playback.
3 Press the Down Arrow to place the Edit cursor
at the current playback location and mark the
beginning of the Edit selection.
4 Press the Up Arrow to mark the end point of the
Edit selection.
5 Stop playback.
6 Do one of the following:
• Press the Left arrow to locate the beginning of
the Edit selection.
• Press the Right arrow to locate the end of the
Edit selection.
Changing the Edit Selection
Pro Tools provides several keyboard shortcuts for
moving and extending or decreasing the range of
an Edit (or Timeline) selection.
To move the selection down to the next track:
Press Start+; (semicolon) (Windows) or Con-
trol+; (semicolon) (Mac).
To move the selection up to the next track:
Press Start+P (Windows) or Control+P (Mac).
To move the selection forward by the selection
amount:
Press Control+Alt+Start+’ (single quote) (Win-
dows) or Command+Control+Option+’ (single
quote) (Mac).
To move the selection backward by the selection
amount:
Press Control+Alt+Start+L (Windows) or Com-
mand+Control+Option+L (Mac).
To double the Edit selection:
Press Control+Alt+Start+Shift+’ (single quote)
(Windows) or Command+Control+
Option+Shift+’ (single quote) (Mac).
To halve the Edit selection:
Press Control+Alt+Start+Shift+L (Windows)
or Command+Control+Option+Shift+L (Mac).
To extend the Edit selection down across
tracks, Press Start+Shift+; (semicolon)
(Windows) or Control+Shift+; (semicolon)
(Mac).
To extend the Edit selection up across
tracks, Press Start+Shift+P (Windows) or
Control+Shift+P (Mac).