Specifications

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, ed-
iting becomes “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 se-
quencer 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:
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Moving the Song position, Locators and End marker.
When you adjust these markers with Snap activated, they will be “magnetic”
to the Snap value.
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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 19) is not restricted by Snap.
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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):
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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 18.
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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 22.
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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 rectan-
gles and these will be magnetic to the snap value as well. See page 17.
Use this pop-up menu to select the Snap value.
Click here to turn Snap on or off.