Reference Guide

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Arranging and editing
Arranging clips
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” on page 346.
See:
“Displaying clips” on page 320
“Opening views by double-clicking clips” on page 326
“Selecting clips” on page 327
“Moving and copying clips” on page 328
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 Edit > Preferences > Customization
- Color, or change the color of any individual clip in the Clip Inspector.
• 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 MIDI and audio information.
Note: In audio clips, the waveform changes color, unless no clip contents are displayed. In MIDI
clips, the clip background changes color.