Shortcut for grabbing arranging items?

[buckaroo]

I hear alot of musicians saying that arranging in PTHD is great.

Ive just found the key command that while in Grid mode you can temprarily use "slip" by holding down alt key which is good..

Is there a similar way to get the "select items" tool?

So if i want to move around 10-20 tracks by rubber banding them?

in most DAW's the select/arrange tool is just a right click or left click and hold down while selecting - is there a quick way in PT so i dont have to select through the "smart tool" and back again to the selector tool?

[crizdee]

Originally Posted by buckaroo

I hear alot of musicians saying that arranging in PTHD is great.

Ive just found the key command that while in Grid mode you can temprarily use "slip" by holding down alt key which is good..

Is there a similar way to get the "select items" tool?

So if i want to move around 10-20 tracks by rubber banding them?

in most DAW's the select/arrange tool is just a right click or left click and hold down while selecting - is there a quick way in PT so i dont have to select through the "smart tool" and back again to the selector tool?

261 posts and a member since 2005 and now you ask this?

Probably the best option for you is to select the first track you want, then hold shift and select the last track you want and all tracks in between are selected.

So you've just found the alt key might be a good time to start investigating the modifier keys? and oh um RTFM "read the free manual"

Chris

[buckaroo]

Just as I thought - no easy quick way of lassoing..

As for 261 posts and getting round to this, i thought I'd give PT a go at composition/arranging.

Usually do this via Ableton or Logic and export finished tracks as an arrangement hence would never really move large amounts of data

[tonwurm]

Originally Posted by buckaroo

I hear alot of musicians saying that arranging in PTHD is great.

Ive just found the key command that while in Grid mode you can temprarily use "slip" by holding down alt key which is good..

Is there a similar way to get the "select items" tool?

So if i want to move around 10-20 tracks by rubber banding them?

in most DAW's the select/arrange tool is just a right click or left click and hold down while selecting - is there a quick way in PT so i dont have to select through the "smart tool" and back again to the selector tool?

the benefit of the object grabber above the smart-tool is, that you can select individual regions within a timerange, and therefore it was the first thing I made after I switched to PT - to build a quickey for this, now I´m able to switch with a single shortcut immediatly between the smart-tool and the object grabber

[Oliver M]

Originally Posted by crizdee

261 posts and a member since 2005 and now you ask this?

6000+ posts and still that unrelaxed?
Have some understanding, as we all learn something every day!


Oliver

[Drew Mazurek]

I'd look into Region Groups. Using these, you can make the sections of your songs all into big "blobs" and move them around at will.

[Sean Russell]

Originally Posted by dmazurek

I'd look into Region Groups. Using these, you can make the sections of your songs all into big "blobs" and move them around at will.

Thats the way I work. Quick.

You make a selection, option-apple-g, fly to destination location, and optionally option-apple-u to ungroup the region. It rocks.

[JohnO]

So if i want to move around 10-20 tracks by rubber banding them?

in most DAW's the select/arrange tool is just a right click or left click and hold down while selecting - is there a quick way in PT so i dont have to select through the "smart tool" and back again to the selector tool?

Not sure if you mean tracks or regions, 'rubber-banding' is usually for regions. While in smart tool mode, just use the cursor tool to do this. You have to first click on a blank area of a track tho, not on the region. Or hit F8 and use the Object mode of the grabber tool. All the tools are available via function keys.

If you want to select a bunch of tracks really quickly, make sure the "Link Track and Edit Selection" button is active and swipe up/down to select the tracks you want. Genius and a real time saver.

[Frank Kruse]

Unfortunately there is no other way to do the stuff the object-grabber can do. I wish there was an option to turn the grabber in the smart-tool into an object-grabber without leaving the smart-mode.
Selecting across tracks and region-groups will always include clips in between (that you might not want to select). They only way is the object-grabber to do this.

[tj_davies]

Originally Posted by Sean Russell

Thats the way I work. Quick.

You make a selection, option-apple-g, fly to destination location, and optionally option-apple-u to ungroup the region. It rocks.

And don't forget option-command-r to regroup the region group after you made a change: that way all region groups in the session have the edit inside.

For example, inside a region group that you have copied to several places in the session, there is a fade missing. Ungroup on region group (option-command-u) make the change - in this case the fade - and then Regroup (option-command-r).

Pro Tools will ask you whether you want a new copy or you want to modify all existing region groups.

Time saver for replacing sounds, eg.

Tim