Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Editing - About Snap
When you select and edit material (both in the Arrange View and the Edit
View), the Snap (Snap to Grid) function determines the result. By activating
Snap, editing becomes “restricted” to the note values selected on the Snap
pop-up menu (the Snap value). The Snap button and pop-up menu are lo-
cated on the sequencer toolbar:
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Note that you can select different Snap values for the Arrange View
and the Edit View.
Snap has an effect on the following operations:
➜ Moving the Song position, Locators and End marker.
When you adjust these markers with Snap activated, they will be “mag-
netic” to the Snap value.
➜ Selecting events by enclosing them in a selection rectangle.
Since the selection rectangle is magnetic to the snap value, this deter-
mines the smallest “block” you can select.
However, selecting by clicking directly on notes in the Edit View (or
Groups in the Arrange View - see page 17) is not restricted by Snap.
➜ Moving and duplicating events.
When you move one or several Events with Snap activated, they will
keep their relative distance to the Snap value positions. In the example
below, Snap is set to 1/4 (quarter notes):
➜ Drawing Groups in the Arrange View.
When you create Groups with the Pencil tool, their start and end posi-
tions will be magnetic to the snap value positions. See page 16.
➜ Drawing events in the Edit view.
The Snap value determines the smallest note position on which you can
draw a note or insert a controller value or pattern change. Furthermore,
the Snap value determines the smallest length of the events when you
draw. See page 20.
Use this pop-up menu to select the Snap value.
Click here to turn Snap on or off.