Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Deleting clips
D To delete a clip, select it and press [Delete] or [Backspace] or select De-
lete from the Edit menu.
You can also draw selection rectangles with the Arrow tool, encompassing several
clips and delete them all at once. The same rules apply as when selecting clips.
Deleting clips with the Eraser tool
You can also use the Eraser tool to delete clips in Arrange mode. The Eraser tool can
be used in two ways: You can single click on events or you can make a selection rect-
angle encompassing several events.
Deleting clips by single clicking
D Select the Eraser tool and click on the event you want to delete.
Deleting events by making a selection rectangle
D Select the Eraser tool, click and hold the mouse button and draw a selec-
tion rectangle.
This way, you can make a selection encompassing several events and delete them
all at once.
! Note that a clip doesn’t have to be fully enclosed to be selected - the se-
lection rectangle only needs to intersect or touch the clip.
Resizing clips
Selected clips can be resized using various methods:
D A selected clip has handles at the start and end. By dragging one of the
the handles you can resize the clip.
You can make the clip longer or shorter. Snap, if activated, is taken into account as
usual.
D If you make the clip shorter, any events with start positions outside of
the clip’s boundaries will not be visible in Arrange mode and will not be
played.
The events will still be there although hidden (they are visible in Edit mode - see
page 82), and will become visible and active again if you resize the clip back to the
original length position (or longer).
When resizing the clip making it shorter, any events that fall outside the clip boundaries will be
hidden and won’t play back.
Resizing the clip back makes the hidden notes visible and active again.
D If you resize a clip so that note events still have their start position within
the clip boundaries but the notes “stick out” outside the clip, these notes
will still be visible and played for the entire length of the events.
D You can resize several selected clips simultaneously.
D You can edit a selected clip’s length numerically in the inspector strip.
See page 74.
D If you want to remove all events outside a clip (or a whole track, affecting
all clips) and select “Crop Events to Clips” from the Edit menu.
This can be useful if you have many “outside events” and find that they make the
view confusing when editing open clips.
D The only time Reason will automatically remove events outside clips is if
you join two clips together (see “Joining clips”) and there are hidden
events between the clips.
In that case, those events are removed - otherwise the joined clip would play back
differently than the two original clips!
About overlapping clips
If you move or resize clips so that two clips overlap the following rules apply:
D Clips or sections of clips that are hidden (overlapped) will not play back.
Each note lane will play a single clip at a time - if you want to mix two note clips,
put them on separate lanes.
D The clip with the later start position will appear on top (and be played
back).
This means if a shorter clip is placed “in the middle” of a longer clip, the program
will play the beginning of the long clip, then the shorter clip and then the end of the
long clip.
D If both clips start at the same position and have the same length, one of
the clips will be completely hidden, and won’t play back at all.