Operation Manual

Table Of Contents
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 be-
comes “restricted” to the note values selected on the Snap pop-up menu (the Snap
value). The Snap button and pop-up menu are located on the sequencer toolbar:
! Note that you can select different Snap values for the Arrange View and
the Edit View.
Snap has an effect on the following operations:
D Moving the Song position, Locators and End marker.
When you adjust these markers with Snap activated, they will be “magnetic” to the
Snap value.
D Selecting events by enclosing them in a selection rectangle.
Since the selection rectangle is magnetic to the snap value, this determines 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 16) is not restricted by Snap.
D Moving and duplicating events.
When you move one or several Events with Snap activated, they will keep their rel-
ative distance to the Snap value positions. In the example below, Snap is set to 1/
4 (quarter notes):
D Drawing Groups in the Arrange View.
When you create Groups with the Pencil tool, their start and end positions will be
magnetic to the snap value positions. See page 15.
D 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 de-
termines the smallest length of the events when you draw. See page 19.
D Using the Eraser tool to delete events in the Edit and Arrange views.
With Snap activated, clicking directly on events with the Eraser tool will not only
delete the events “touched”, but all events within the set snap value (e.g. 1 bar).
The Eraser tool can also be used for making selection rectangles and these will be
magnetic to the snap value as well. See page 14.
Use this pop-up menu to select the Snap value.
Click here to turn
Snap on or off.