
THE SEQUENCER
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Drawing and Editing Controllers
Regardless of whether you’re editing recorded controllers or creating control-
ler changes from scratch, you do it by drawing with the Pencil tool.
Note:
➜ If Snap is on, the controller value change you enter will snap to the
nearest Snap value position.
Also, the length of the changed section will be a multiple of the Snap value.
In this example, Snap is set to 1/4. Thus, the controller changes you enter will be in
“steps”, one or more quarter notes in length.
➜ If the controller hasn’t been automated yet (the words “Not Auto-
mated” are shown in the Controller lane), it is a good idea to first set
the parameter to a good “default value” on the device panel.
The reason is that as soon as you enter a controller value, the rest of the
track will be filled with the original value of the parameter (the value set
on the device panel). This works exactly the same as when recording
controllers - see page 6.
Selecting sections of a controller track
To select a section of the “subtrack” for a controller, click and drag a selec-
tion rectangle with the Arrow tool. If Snap is on, the selection will be magnetic
to the Snap value positions, just as when selecting notes.
The selected section is shown as a shaded rectangle.
➜ By holding down [Shift] and dragging, you can select multiple, dis-
continuous sections of the controller subtrack.
✪ If you select Groups or sections of the controller lane in the Arrange
View, this section will be selected when you got to Edit View and
vice versa.
Moving and Duplicating Controller sections
➜ To move a selected controller section, click and drag it to another
position on the same subtrack.
Snap is taken into account as usual.
➜ To duplicate a selected controller section, hold down [Option] (Mac)
or [Ctrl] (Windows), click and drag it.
! Moving or duplicating controllers will replace the controller values
at the new position (just as if you had edited them with the Pencil
tool).
Using Cut, Copy and Paste
You can move or duplicate selected controller sections using the Cut, Copy
and Paste commands on the Edit menu.
➜ When you Cut or Copy, the song position is automatically moved to
the end of the selection (or, if Snap is activated, to the closest Snap
value position after the end of the selection).
You can use this for repeating events, as described on page 14.
➜ When you Paste, the controller section appears at the song posi-
tion, on its original subtrack.
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