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Tutorial 2: Editing
Muting
Muting an event stops you from hearing just that event.
You may want to mute events on a track so that the track
continues to play except for the muted events.
Ö Note that this is different from muting a track.
1. Hover the cursor over the event you wish to mute. The
mute button will appear in the top right hand corner of the
event.
2. Click on the Mute button. The event will turn gray. This
means that the event in muted.
3. To unmute the event click on the “Mute” button again.
Repeating
The Repeat function is great for repeating something over
and over directly after the event you want to repeat. This
function is built right into events in Sequel.
Let’s repeat the “Drums” event:
1. Click on the “Repeat handle” on the middle right side
of the event and drag until the “Repeat Count” is three.
2. We now have five “Drums” events. Two original ones
and three repeats.
Copying
Copying can be used to copy an event to another area in
the Arrange Zone.
Using copy and paste
1. To copy an event, click on the desired event and choose
“Copy” from the Edit menu. In our case, let’s copy the “Gui-
tar” event.
2. Position the cursor at the point in the project where
you would like the copy to be made. We’ll place the cursor
at bar 5 beat 2.
3. Select the track that you want the event to be copied
to by clicking on it in the track list.
4. Choose “Paste” from the Edit menu.
Ö If a different track is selected, the Paste command will
paste the event to this track instead. Therefore, always
make sure that the right track is selected before choosing
Paste.
5. We have now two “Guitar” events.
Using the [Ctrl]/[Command] key
1. Place the cursor in the center of the Synth event and
hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2. We are going to copy the “Synth” event. Click and
hold the selected event and drag to the position you wish
the copy to be made. In this case, drag until the copy is
lined up with bar 5.
3. Release the mouse button.
4. Now we have two “Synth” events.
Erasing
1. Select an event to erase.
2. Press [Delete] or [Backspace] to delete the event.
You can also select the Delete option on the Edit menu.