User`s guide

Chapter 14: Playing/Selecting Track Material 169
Other Useful Selection
Techniques
In time you will discover your favorite se-
lection techniques. Here are a few to get
you started:
To position the edit cursor precisely at a
region start, end, or sync point:
1 Click with the Selector in the track.
2 Press Tab to move the cursor to the next
region start, end, or sync point.
– or –
Press Option+Tab (Macintosh) or Con-
trol+Tab (Windows) to move the cursor to
the previous region start, end, or sync
point.
To make a selection with the Scrubber:
1 Scrub with the Scrubber to find an appro-
priate start point for the selection, then re-
lease.
2 Shift-Scrub to an appropriate end point
for the selection, then release. The range
between the initial and final scrub becomes
selected.
To move a selection to an adjacent region on
the same track:
1 Select a region with the Grabber.
2 Press Control+Tab (Macintosh) or
Start+Tab (Windows) to move the selection
to the next region.
– or –
Press Control+Option+Tab (Macintosh) or
Start+Control+Tab (Windows) to move the
selection to the previous region.
In either instance, the original region be-
comes deselected.
To slide an Edit selection in the Ruler:
1 With the Selector or Grabber, make a
track selection.
2 While pressing Option (Macintosh) or
Alt (Windows), move the cursor over either
of the Playback Markers in the Ruler (the
Grabber appears).
3 Drag left or right to move the Edit selec-
tion back or forward in time, while preserv-
ing its length.
✽ If the Edit and Timeline selections are un-
linked, Option-drag (Macintosh) or Alt-drag
(Windows) the Edit Markers instead.
Region List Selection Follows
Track Selection
When the Editing Preference for “Region
List Selection Follows Track Selection” is
enabled, selecting a region in a track also
causes the region to become selected in the
Audio or MIDI Regions List.
Conversely, if the Editing Preference for
“Track Selection Follows Region List Selec-
tion” is enabled, selecting a region in the
Audio or MIDI Regions List causes the ini-
tial occurrence of that region to become se-
lected within the track.
Sliding an Edit selection in the Ruler