Toolbar details

The Sequencer Toolbar can be found to the top left in the Sequencer Area. From the Sequencer Toolbar you can select various sequencer editing tools.

Toolbar tools

Selection Tool

The Selection (arrow) Tool is the main tool for selecting and moving tracks, note lanes, clips and events and recordings in clips. It’s also used for resizing clips and events in clips. It is selected by default when a song is opened.

You can also select the Selection Tool by pressing [Q] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Selection Tool to the Pencil Tool - or to the Speaker Tool when editing an open audio clip inline - or to the Cut (Razor) Tool when editing an open audio clip in the Comp Editor.

Pencil Tool

The Pencil Tool is used for manually drawing clips and events in clips. It can also be used to edit the velocity values of notes in open note clips.

You can also select the Pencil Tool by pressing [W] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Pencil Tool to the Selection Tool.

Eraser Tool

The Eraser Tool is used for deleting clips and events. In audio Pitch Edit mode you can also join notes with the Eraser.

You can also select the Eraser Tool by pressing [E] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Eraser Tool to the Pencil Tool.

Razor Tool

The Razor Tool is used for splitting clips and notes - and for creating cuts when comping audio clips in Edit Mode.

You can also select the Razor Tool by pressing [R] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Razor Tool to the Pencil Tool - or to the Selection Tool when editing an open audio clip on the Edit Pane.

Mute Tool

The Mute Tool is used for muting clips in the arrangement - or lanes in Block automation clips (see “Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips”).

You can also select the Mute Tool by pressing [T] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Mute Tool to the Razor Tool.

Magnifying Glass Tool

The Magnifying Glass Tool lets you zoom in and out both horizontally and vertically on the Arrangement Pane. The Magnifying Glass Tool offers a couple of possibilities:

To zoom in with the Magnifying Glass Tool, click in the Arrangement Pane where you want the origin of magnification.

To zoom out with the Magnifying Glass Tool, hold down [Ctrl](Win) or [Option](Mac) and click.

You’ll notice that the “+” sign in the Magnifying Glass Tool changes to a “-” sign.

You can also click and drag with the Magnifying Glass Tool to create a selection rectangle.

The view will then be zoomed in so that the selected area fills the entire Arrangement Pane.

You can also select the Magnifying Glass Tool by pressing [Y] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Magnifying Glass Tool to the Hand Tool.

It’s also possible to zoom in the Arrangement Pane by using the Sequencer Area Navigators and Zoom To Selection function as described in “Zooming in the Sequencer” and “Zooming to selection”.

Hand Tool

The Hand Tool is used for scrolling in the Edit/Arrangement Pane.

Select the Hand Tool and click anywhere in the Edit/Arrangement Pane, keep the mouse button depressed and drag to desired view.

You can also select the Hand tool by pressing [U] on the computer keyboard.

Press [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Hand Tool to the + Magnifying Glass Tool.

Press [Ctrl]+[Alt](Win) or [Cmd]+[Option](Mac) to momentarily switch from the Hand Tool to the - Magnifying Glass Tool.

It’s also possible to scroll in the Edit/Arrangement Pane by using the Sequencer Area Navigators as described in “Scrolling with the Navigators and scrollbars”.

Speaker Tool

The Speaker Tool is used for auditioning slices or notes in Single Take audio clips, and for auditioning individual recordings on Comp Rows in Comp Clips. See “Slice Edit mode tools”, “Auditioning notes” and “Comp Editor audio editing tools” for details.

Alternate tools

For every tool mode described earlier, there is a so called alternate tool that can be momentarily selected by holding down [Alt](Win) or [Cmd](Mac) on the computer keyboard. Below is a summary of the alternate tools:

| Selected tool	| Alternate tool
Selection tool	Pencil tool (Speaker tool in inline editing of Audio Track or Cut (Razor) tool when editing audio clip in Comp Editor)
Pencil tool	Selection tool
Eraser tool	Pencil tool
Razor tool	Pencil tool (Selection tool when editing open audio clip on the Edit Pane)
Mute tool	Razor tool
Magnifying Glass tool	Hand tool
Hand tool	+ Magnifying Glass tool
Hand tool	- Magnifying Glass tool by pressing [Alt]-[Ctrl](Win) or [Option]-[Cmd](Mac)

Edit Mode buttons

Click the Edit button (or Slice Edit/Pitch Edit/Comp Edit button for selected audio clips) to switch to Edit Mode.

Snap

The Snap function in the sequencer toolbar is used for “restricting” editing of clips and events to a user-selectable note value grid.

Activate the Snap function by pressing [S], or by clicking the Snap button:

When moving clips or events, the Snap function always works relative to the original position(s) of the clip(s) or event(s).

Select the grid you wish to snap to by selecting the note grid value from the drop-down list:

Note that you can select different Snap values for selected clips in the Arrange/Block View and for open clips in Edit Mode (see “About separate Snap values for selected clips and for open clips”).

The Snap function affects the following operations:

•	Moving the Song Position Pointer, Loop Locators and Song End Marker.

When you adjust the Locators with Snap activated, they will snap to the selected Snap value on an absolute grid.

•	Moving clips and events, recordings and Comp Row cuts.

When you move objects with Snap activated, they will keep their relative distance to the Snap value positions.

•	Drawing clips.

When you create clips with the Pencil tool, their start and end positions will snap to the selected note value positions on an absolute grid.

•	Drawing events in open clips.

The Snap value determines the absolute grid points on which you can draw a note or an automation point. The Snap value also determines the shortest possible note length that you can draw.

•	Splitting clips with the Razor tool.

The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which a clip can be split.

•	Nudging clips, events and recording.

When you nudge clips, events or recordings with Snap activated, they will keep their relative distance to the Snap value positions.

•	Creating Comp Row cuts

The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which you could add cuts in open Comp audio clips.

•	Creating and Moving Slice Markers

The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which you could add and move Slice Markers in open Single Take audio clips.

About the “Grid” value

The “Grid” value at the top in the list is dynamic and automatically changes the snap value, from “Bar” to “1/128”,
depending on the current horizontal zoom level on the Arrange/Edit pane.

The picture below shows the same clips in the Arrange pane at two different horizontal zoom levels:

About separate Snap values for selected clips and for open clips

There are two different Snap settings, one for when a clip is open for editing in Edit Mode, and one for when no clip is open (e.g. in Song/Block View). Typically, you would set a fine Snap value (e.g. 1/16) for open clips in Edit Mode and have the other Snap value set to “Bar” for convenient clip arranging in the Song/Block View. You can also choose to turn Snap off in either of these modes, independently of the other setting.

•	The Snap value for editing is used whenever a note clip or automation clip is open (including when an automation clip is opened in Arrange Mode).

However, there’s one exception: If a note clip is open in Edit Mode and you click in the Clip Overview (see “Edit Mode elements”), the clip will remain open but the Snap value for arranging will be selected. This allows you to e.g. move or resize the clip in the Clip Overview just like in the Song/Blocks View, without closing it first.

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts

Below is a complete list of the computer keyboard shortcuts for selecting tools on the sequencer Toolbar:

| Function	| Key command
Selection tool select	[Q]
Pencil tool select	[W]
Eraser tool select	[E]
Razor tool select	[R]
Mute tool select	[T]
Magnifying Glass tool select	[Y]
Hand tool select	[U]
Snap On/Off	[S]