User Guide
Shift-clicking Clicking the mouse while holding down the
Shift key on the keyboard. Shift-clicking is used
mainly to skip dialogs so that you can quickly
repeat operations.
Control-clicking Clicking the mouse while holding down the
Control key on the keyboard. Control-clicking is
used to modify the operation of a normal click.
Dragging Holding down the mouse button while you
move the mouse. Dragging is used to quickly
move sections of data between separate
windows and to move trackbars, scrollbars and
faders.
Slow-dragging Holding down both the right and left mouse
buttons while moving the mouse. Using this
with trackbars and faders increases the
resolution of the movement. This is especially
helpful when making fractional adjustments to
parameters in a dialog.
Dropping Releasing the mouse button in another area of
the screen after clicking on and dragging an
object. Dragging and dropping is used to speed
up operations like mixing or cross-fading.
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