Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Selecting Groups
To select a Group, just click on it in the Arrange View.
This Group is selected.
D If you hold down [Shift] and click, you can select multiple Groups.
You can de-select individual Groups by [Shift]-clicking them again.
D You can also select Groups by clicking and dragging a selection rectan-
gle, just as with events.
If Snap is on, the selection rectangle will be magnetic to the Snap value positions.
However, note that a Group doesn’t have to be fully enclosed by the rectangle to
be selected - the selection rectangle only needs to intersect or touch the Group.
✪ Note that it’s possible to select Groups and “loose events” at the same
time with this method. Make sure the selection rectangle encloses the el-
ements you want!
D Another way of selecting Groups is to use the arrow keys on the com-
puter keyboard.
Pressing the right arrow key selects the next Group on the track, pressing the
down arrow key selects the closest Group on the track below, etc. Holding down
[Shift] and using the arrow keys allows you to make multiple selections.
D If you select a Group and go to the Edit View, all events in the Group will
be selected.
D To de-select the selected Group(s), click anywhere in an empty part of
the Arrange View.
Resizing Groups
When a Group is selected, a handle appears on its right edge. You can click on this
handle and drag to make the Group smaller or larger. The following rules apply:
D If you drag to the left to make the Group smaller, any events that end up
outside the Group boundary are no longer included in the Group.
As a consequence, if you drag the handle all the way past the start of the Group,
all events are Ungrouped (see below).
D If you drag to the right to make the Group larger, any events you enclose
will become part of the Group.
D Note: Groups cannot overlap!
This means that if you enlarge a Group so that it partially covers another Group,
this will automatically resize the other Group as well:
The second Group now starts here!