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.
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.
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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 on the Edit Pane.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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”.
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Select the Hand Tool and click anywhere in the Edit/Arrangement Pane, keep the mouse button depressed and drag to desired view.
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The Speaker Tool is used for auditioning slices in Single Take audio clips, and for auditioning individual recordings on Comp Rows in Comp Clips. See “Inline audio editing tools” and “Comp Editor audio editing tools” for details.
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:
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The Snap function in the sequencer toolbar is used for “restricting” editing of clips and events to a user-selectable note value grid. When moving clips or events, the Snap function always works relative to the original position(s) of the clip(s) or event(s).
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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.
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.
When you nudge clips, events or recordings with Snap activated, they will keep their relative distance to the Snap value positions.
The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which you could add and move Slice Markers in open Single Take audio 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 Arrange Mode). 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 Arrange Mode. You can also choose to turn Snap off in either of these modes, independently of the other setting.
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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).
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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 Arrange Mode, without closing it first.
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