CHAPTER 6. ARRANGEMENT VIEW
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Holding
while clicking extends an existing selection in the same track or across
tracks. You can also hold
and use the arrow keys to manipulate the selection.
Clicking the Loop Brace
to Select the Loop for
Editing.
6.9
Using the Editing Grid
To ease editing, the cursor will snap to grid lines that represent the meter subdivisions of
the song tempo. The grid can be set to be either zoom-adaptive or xed.
You can set the width of both zoom-adaptive and xed grid lines using the
(PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu available in either the Arrangement View track area or the
Clip View display.
The following shortcuts to Options menu commands allow quickly working with the grid:
Use
Ctrl
1
(PC) /
1
(Mac) to
narrow
the grid, doubling the density of the
grid lines (e.g., from eighth notes to sixteenth notes).
Use
Ctrl
2
(PC) /
2
(Mac) to
widen
the grid, halving the density of the grid
lines (e.g., from eighth notes to quarter notes).
Use
Ctrl
3
(PC) /
3
(Mac) to toggle
triplets
mode; this would, for instance,
change the grid from eighth notes to eighth note triplets.
Use
Ctrl
4
(PC) /
4
(Mac) to turn grid snapping on or off. When the grid is
off, the cursor does not snap to meter subdivisions.
Use
Ctrl
5
(PC) /
5
(Mac) to toggle xed and adaptive grid modes.
