Instruction Manual

306 Arranging
Arranging Clips
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Arranging Clips
The Track view provides many ways for you to rearrange, copy, and paste
clips to arrange your music the way you want. The easiest is to select the
clips or portions of clips you want to arrange and then drag and drop them
wherever you want. You can drag and drop clips in the Track view even
while playback is in progress. You can also arrange clips via the clipboard
using the Edit-Cut, Edit-Copy, and Edit-Paste commands, which work like
those in almost all Windows programs.
The snap grid enables you to move clips to or by an exact amount of time,
such as a quarter note or whole measure. See To Change the Snap
Options.
Displaying Clips
Opening Views by Double-clicking Clips
Selecting Clips
Moving and Copying Clips
Displaying Clips
Clips are displayed as rectangles in the Clips pane. Their position and
length show you at a glance their starting times and lengths. You can
control four aspects of their appearance:
• Color—By default, each track’s clips are drawn in a different color. The
clip colors restart at the tenth track. You can customize the default
colors of clips in the Configure Colors dialog or change the color of any
individual clip in the Clip Properties dialog.
Note: In audio clips, the waveform changes color, unless no clip
contents are displayed. In MIDI clips, the clip background changes
color.
• Name—You can also assign each clip a descriptive name, which is
displayed in the upper-left corner of the clip.
• Contents—At your option, clips can be displayed with a graphical
representation of the events in the clip. The effect is slightly different for