Selections and Edit Focus

Almost all operations in the remote editor are performed on one or more selected zones or on the zone with edit focus. Several zones can be selected at once, but only one zone at a time can have edit focus.

This is important since:

•	Editing operations that can be performed on several zones (like deleting), always apply to the selected zones.

•	Editing operations that can be performed on one zone only, always apply to the zone with edit focus.

•	The front panel always shows the settings for the zone with edit focus.

Here no zone is selected.

Here the middle zone is selected but does not have edit focus.

Here the middle zone has edit focus but is not selected. Notice the thicker border and the additional handles in the key range area.

Here the middle zone is selected and has edit focus.

Here, all three zones are selected, but the middle one has edit focus.

Selecting Zones

To select a zone, click on it.

Clicking on a zone will also automatically give it edit focus.

You can also select multiple zones in several ways:

By holding down [Shift], or [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and clicking on the zones you wish to select.

This way you can select several non-contiguous zones. You can also deselect a selected zone by clicking on it again.

By holding down [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) and pressing [A].

This will select all of the zones in the key map display. To deselect all zones, click in an unoccupied area in the Sample column or the key map area.

By clicking and dragging a selection box in the key map area.

Note that the zones don’t have to be completely encompassed by the selection box. The selection box only have to intersect parts of the zones to include them in the selection.

Selecting zones via MIDI

You can also select zones via your MIDI keyboard. By clicking the button marked “Select zones via MIDI” above the key map display so that it lights up, you enable selection via MIDI.

This way, you can select a zone and give it edit focus by pressing a key that lies within the zone’s key range (see later in this chapter for information about setting up key ranges).

In this case, this zone can be selected by pressing any key between C2 - C3 on your MIDI keyboard.

Note also, that selection via MIDI is velocity sensitive. Zones may have specific velocity ranges. This means that they won’t be played unless the key that triggers the zone is played with a certain velocity. The same rules apply when selecting via MIDI, only zones that meet the velocity criteria will be selected. Read more about setting up velocity ranges on “Setting velocity range for a Zone”.

Selecting All Zones in a Group

The concept of zone groups is fully introduced on “Working with Grouping”. For now we will only describe how to select all samples that belong to the same group:

Moving Edit Focus

Moving Edit Focus

A zone can be given edit focus independently of selection:

When you click on an unselected zone, it both gets selected and gets edit focus.

When you select several zones using [Shift], or [Ctrl](Win) or [Cmd](Mac), the one you select last always gets edit focus.

To set edit focus to a zone when several zones are already selected, click on it without holding down any modifier keys.

This way, you can move edit focus between the selected zones freely without deselecting any of them.