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Arrange Window
ject and move the mouse to the left until the sequence is
shortened by one quarter note. Then press (and hold) alt
and move the mouse carefully to the right until the se-
quence has become one division longer. While you are do-
ing this the right side of the Arrange window’s title bar
shows the track number followed by the current length of
the object in bars, beats, divisions and ticks. The three
right-hand numbers should be “3 1 0”.
Dividing Sequences…
Choose the scissors. Now click the desired sequence(s)
and keep the mouse button held down. The left side of the
title bar of the Arrange window shows the current position
of the mouse. When you release the mouse button, all se-
lected objects are cut at the relevant position. The grid is
based on the Display Format value. This value is displayed
and editable on the Transport window, just below the
Time Signature indicator.
If any notes overlap other notes by more than a 1/16 note,
the following dialog will appear on-screen:
Overlapping Notes found! Do you want to keep, to shorten
or to split those? [KEEP|SHORTEN|SPLIT]
KEEP (default) leaves all notes unaltered. The sequence is
cut as usual, but when you do this, you can end up with
notes in the left-hand half that are much longer than the
sequence now is. Such notes are played normally, unless
“Clip Length” is set to cut off all sounding notes at the end
of a sequence.
SHORTEN truncates all overlapping notes, so that they
end at the point where the sequence was divided.
SPLIT divides overlapping notes across the two sequences
created when a cut is made; two subsequent notes are cre-
ated, with the same pitch and velocity, and the same total
length as the original note.
…multiple division with the scissors: If you hold
down ctrl while cutting an object with the scissor tool, the
selected sequence will be cut into several pieces, whose
lengths are determined by the length of the first segment.
For example: To divide a 16-bar sequence into 8 2-bar se-
quences, cut the sequence at the start of bar 3 while hold-
ing down ctrl.
Merging Sequences
You can merge two or more selected sequences in a track
into a single sequence by clicking on one of them with the
glue tool.
This merges all selected sequences, even those on differ-
ent tracks, into a single sequence in which all the events
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