Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Using Cut, Copy and Paste
You can move or duplicate events using the Cut, Copy and Paste commands on the
Edit menu. When you Paste, the events appear at the song position, on their original
track(s).
! If you have deleted the original tracks, or if you Paste into another Rea-
son song document, new tracks will be created as needed.
D See the note below about Copying and Pasting whole tracks!
Using Copy and Paste to repeat a section
When you Cut or Copy a selection, the song position will automatically move to the
end of the selection (or, if Snap is activated, to the closest Snap value position after
the end of the selection). This allows you to quickly repeat a section, in the following
way:
1. Make sure playback is stopped.
2. Set the Snap value to “Bar” (or to the length of the section you want to re-
peat, if is smaller than one bar).
3. Activate Snap.
4. Select the section you want to repeat.
Since you can make selections over several tracks, this is a quick way to copy en-
tire song sections.
! Note that Snap doesn’t apply in quite the same way when selecting
Groups (see page 16). Make sure the selection contains exactly what you
want before proceeding.
5. Select Copy from the Edit menu.
The song position is moved to the closest snap value after the end of the selection
(provided that playback is stopped).
6. Select Paste from the Edit menu.
The copied section is pasted in, and the song position is moved to the end of
pasted section.
7. Paste again, as many times as you want to repeat the section.
Using Cut, Copy and Paste with Tracks
You can select one or several tracks by clicking or [Shift]-clicking in the track list. This
allows you to use Cut or Copy on the track, complete with contents.
D If you Paste the track(s) into their original song, this simply duplicates
the tracks.
However, the Pasted tracks will not be connected to any devices in the rack.
D You can also Paste the track(s) into another song.
Note that only the tracks (complete with contents) are copied and pasted - not
their respective devices. You may want to separately copy and paste the devices
to the other song.
Deleting Events
D To delete an Event, either select it and press [Delete], [Backspace] or se-
lect Delete from the Edit menu.
Both of these methods will delete the Event.
You can also draw selection rectangles with the Selection tool, encompassing several
Events and delete them all at once. The same rules apply as when selecting Events.
That is, if Snap is on, the selection rectangle will be magnetic to the Snap value posi-
tions. Also note that an Event doesn’t have to be fully enclosed by the rectangle to be
selected - the selection rectangle only needs to intersect or touch the Event.
Deleting Events with the Eraser tool
You can also use the Eraser tool to delete Events and Groups in the Arrange view, as
well as Notes, Controller sections and Pattern Change sections in the Edit view.
The Eraser tool can be used in two ways: You can single click on events or you can
make a selection rectangle encompassing several events. See below.
About Snap and the Eraser tool
With Snap activated, clicking directly on events or making selection rectangles with
the Eraser tool will not only delete the events “touched”, but all events within the set
snap value (e.g. 1 bar).