Reference Manual
CHAPTER 6. ARRANGEMENT VIEW 81
6.7 Selecting Clips and Time
With the exception of moving and resizing clips, Arrangement editing in Live is selection-
based: You select something using the mouse, then execute a menu command (e.g., Cut,
Copy, Paste, Duplicate) on the selection. This editing method lends itself to an efcient
division of labor between the two hands: One hand operates the mouse or trackpad, while
the other hand issues the keyboard shortcuts for the menu commands. The menu eventually
is only used as a reference for looking up the keyboard shortcuts.
Here is how selection works:
Clicking a clip selects the clip;
Clicking into the Arrangement background selects a point in time, represented by a
ashing insert mark;
Clicking and dragging selects a timespan.
To access the time within a clip for editing, unfold its track by clicking the button
next to the track name.
Adjusting an Unfolded
Track's Height.
Notice that you can adjust the height of the unfolded track by dragging the split line
below the Unfold Track button. Clicking and dragging in the waveform display below
the clip's horizontal strip allows you to select time within the clip. Note that you can
actually unfold all of your tracks at once by holding down the
Alt
(PC) /
Alt
(Mac) modier when clicking the button.
Clicking on the loop brace is a shortcut for executing the Edit menu's Select Loop
command, which selects all material included within the loop.
Holding while clicking extends an existing selection in the same track or across
tracks.