Selecting, moving and copying
Most edits act on the selected notes: techniques, frets, lengths, Re-fret, Transpose. The selection is the song’s, so a note selected in the Editor is selected in the Score too.
Selecting, moving and copying notes
Available on every platform.
Select notes
- One note: click it. The caret moves onto it, so typing a fret changes it.
- More notes: ⇧-click each one. ⇧-click a selected note to leave it out.
- A rectangle: drag across empty space. Every note the rectangle touches is selected, on any track. Hold ⇧ as you start to add to the notes already selected.
- More notes: Shift-click each one. Shift-click a selected note to leave it out.
- A rectangle: drag across empty space. Every note the rectangle touches is selected, on any track. Hold Shift as you start to add to the notes already selected.
- More notes: Shift-click each one (⇧-click on a Mac). Shift-click a selected note to leave it out.
- A rectangle: drag across empty space. Every note the rectangle touches is selected, on any track. Hold Shift as you start to add to the notes already selected.
- Everything: Select All (⌘A)Select All (Ctrl+A)Select All (Ctrl+A (⌘A on a Mac)) selects every note of the song, in each track’s active voice.
To clear the selection, click an empty place in a lane (the caret goes there).
Move notes
Drag a selected note and the whole selection goes with it. Sideways moves the notes in time, along the grid. Up or down moves them to other strings: each note keeps its pitch and gets the fret that plays it there. A fret that falls outside the neck shows in red until you re-fret it. If the notes can’t all go to those strings, they move in time only.
Drag the right edge of a selected note to change the length of all of them. A drag is one undo step, whatever its size.
Duplicate by dragging
Cut, copy and paste
- Select the notes and choose Copy (⌘C)Copy (Ctrl+C)Copy (Ctrl+C (⌘C on a Mac)) or Cut (⌘X)Cut (Ctrl+X)Cut (Ctrl+X (⌘X on a Mac)).
- Put the caret where the passage should start: its first note goes at the caret, on the caret’s string, and the others keep their places around it. Notes copied from several tracks land on the caret’s track and the ones after it.
- Choose Paste (⌘V)Paste (Ctrl+V)Paste (Ctrl+V (⌘V on a Mac)).
The pasted notes are selected, and the caret moves to the end of them, so pasting again carries on from there. You can paste into another song too.
Copy and paste are also in the note’s menu, and Paste in the lane’s: right-click to open them. If no notes are selected but clips are, these commands act on the clips.
Delete
Delete (⌫)Delete (Backspace, Delete)Delete (Backspace, Delete (⌫, ⌦ on a Mac)) deletes the selected notes, or the note at the caret when nothing is selected.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cut | ⌘X | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu |
| Copy | ⌘C | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu |
| Paste | ⌘V | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu; the lane’s menu |
| Delete | ⌫ | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; action bar |
| Select All | ⌘A | the Edit menu |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cut | Ctrl+X | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu |
| Copy | Ctrl+C | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu; action bar |
| Paste | Ctrl+V | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu; the lane’s menu |
| Delete | Backspace, Delete | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; action bar |
| Select All | Ctrl+A | the Edit menu; action bar |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cut | Ctrl+X (⌘X on a Mac) | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu |
| Copy | Ctrl+C (⌘C on a Mac) | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu; action bar |
| Paste | Ctrl+V (⌘V on a Mac) | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; the clip’s menu; the lane’s menu |
| Delete | Backspace, Delete (⌫, ⌦ on a Mac) | the Edit menu; the note’s menu; action bar |
| Select All | Ctrl+A (⌘A on a Mac) | the Edit menu; action bar |