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Chapter 20: Working with Regions and Selections 453
Region groups are especially useful for:
• Grouping tick-based audio regions that have
been separated into many small regions, such
as with individual hits of a drum pattern.
Many such small regions can easily be created
with Beat Detective or the Separate Region At
Transients command, or imported as REX or
ACID files.
• Grouping parts and sections of your session to
facilitate composition and arranging. For ex-
ample, grouping the regions of a brass section
during the chorus to copy it to the next cho-
rus.
Creating Region Groups
To create a region group:
1
Select one or more regions on one or more
tracks. (For more information on multitrack re-
gion groups, see “Multitrack Region Groups” on
page 454).
The size of the selection determines the size of
the region group. The selection can start and
end on any region boundary, empty space, or
even in the middle of a region. Selections start-
ing or ending within a region will separate the
region at the selection boundary when you cre-
ate a region group. Region groups created from
object-based selections include all selected and
unselected regions between the first and last se-
lected region on the track.
2
Choose Region > Group.
The region group appears as one region with the
region groups icon in the lower left corner. Re-
gion groups also appear in the Region List.
Region Group Timebase Format
Region groups are created in the same timebase
format (samples or ticks) as the tracks on which
they are created. Multitrack region groups can
include both sample-based and tick-based
tracks.
Region groups are completely independent
of Mix and Edit Groups.
Selecting regions to be grouped on a single audio track
A region group on an audio track and in the Region List
A region group on an audio track
A region group on a MIDI track
Region groups can be created from empty se-
lections. This can be useful when working
in Shuffle mode to preserve the gaps between
regions.
The Group and Ungroup Region menu com-
mands apply to any Edit selection regard-
less of the current Track View.
Region Group icon
Audio Region Group icon
MIDI Region Group icon