Specifications

Chapter 16: Playing and Selecting Track Material 253
To select across all tracks:
■ Enable the All Edit Group and make a selec-
tion in any track.
– or –
■ Drag with the Selector in any Timebase Ruler
(make sure the Edit and Timeline Selections are
linked).
These selections include all tracks in the Edit
window, but do not include the Conductor
tracks (for Tempo, Meter, and Markers).
To select across all tracks, including the
Conductor tracks (for Tempo, Meter, and
Markers):
■ Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Macin-
tosh) with the Selector in any Timebase Ruler.
Moving and Extending Selections
Between Tracks
With Commands Focus enabled, Edit selections
can be moved or extended to adjacent tracks.
To move a selection to an adjacent track:
1 Enable the Commands Focus by clicking its
button in the upper left of the Edit window.
2 With the Selector or Grabber, make a track se-
lection.
3 Press P on your computer keyboard to move
the selection to the previous track.
– or –
Press semicolon (;) to move the selection to the
next track.
In either instance, the original Edit selection be-
comes deselected.
To extend a selection to an adjacent track:
1 Enable the Commands Focus.
2 With the Selector or Grabber, make a track se-
lection.
3 Press Shift+P to extend the selection to the
previous track.
– or –
Press Shift+semicolon to extend the selection to
the next track.
In either instance, the original Edit selection re-
mains selected.
To remove the bottom track from a selection:
■ Press Start+Alt+semicolon (Windows) or Con-
trol+Option+semicolon (Macintosh) to remove
the bottom track.
Other Useful Selection Techniques
Following are some additional selection tech-
niques.
To position the edit cursor precisely at a region
start, end, or sync point:
1 Make sure the Tab to Transients button is not
enabled. (See “Tabbing to Transients” on
page 254.)
2 Click with the Selector in the track.
3 Press Tab to move the cursor to the next re-
gion start, end, or sync point.
– or –
Press Control+Tab (Windows) or Option+Tab
(Macintosh) to move the cursor to the previous
region start, end, or sync point.
Commands Focus button enabled