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Working with projects
Scrubbing audio
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio
part or event by playing back, forwards or backwards, at
any speed:
1. Select the Play tool and click a second time on the
icon.
A pop-up menu opens.
2. Select “Scrub”.
3. Click at the desired position of your audio event or
part and keep the mouse button pressed.
The project cursor moves to the position where you click. The mouse
pointer is not visible anymore.
4. Drag to the left or right.
The project cursor moves correspondingly and the audio is played back.
The speed and thus the pitch of the playback depend on how fast you
move the mouse.
You can adjust the volume of the Scrub function in the
Preferences dialog (Transport–Scrub page).
Ö When scrubbing with the mouse, insert effects are al-
ways bypassed.
Ö It is also possible to “scrub” all audio and video tracks
of your project with the Jog wheel and Shuttle Speed con
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trol on the Transport panel see “Playing back with the
shuttle speed control” on page 85.
Scrubbing can be quite a burden on your system. If play-
back problems occur, try deactivating the “Use High
Quality Scrub Mode” option in the Preferences dialog
(Transport–Scrub page). The resampling quality will then
be lower, but scrubbing will be less demanding on the
processor. This can be useful when scrubbing in large
projects.
Editing parts and events
This section describes techniques for editing in the Proj-
ect window. If not explicitly stated, all descriptions apply
to both events and parts, even though we use the term
“event” for convenience.
Ö When you are using the tools for editing, you can in
many cases get additional functions by pressing modifier
keys (e.
g. pressing [Alt]/[Option] and dragging with the
Arrow tool creates a copy of the dragged event).
On the following pages, the default modifier keys are de-
scribed – you can customize these in the Preferences dia-
log (Editing–Tool Modifiers page), see “Setting up tool
modifier keys” on page 545.
Selecting events
Selecting events is done using any of the following
methods:
• Use the Arrow tool.
The standard selection techniques apply.
• Use the Select submenu on the Edit menu.
The options are:
Option Description
All Selects all events in the Project window.
None Deselects all events.
Invert Inverts the selection – all selected events are dese-
lected and all events that were not selected are se-
lected instead.
In Loop Selects all events that are partly or wholly between
the left and right locator.
From Start to
Cursor
Selects all events that begin to the left of the project
cursor.
From Cursor to
End
Selects all events that end to the right of the project
cursor.
Equal Pitch These are available in the MIDI Editors (see “Select-
ing notes” on page 383) and the Sample Editor (see
“Using the Select menu” on page 269).
Select Controllers
in Note Range
This is available in the MIDI Editors (see “Selecting
controllers within the note range” on page 384).
All on Selected
Tracks
Selects all events on the selected track.
Events under
Cursor
Automatically selects all events on the selected
track(s) that are “touched” by the project cursor.