Selecting audio or midi to edit

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David Dobler

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May 15, 2020, 1:54:58 PM5/15/20
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Hello Slau, I'm sorry I couldn't get this to post, earlier, I am trying to edit a vocal track and couldn't   get the shift key to select the audio or midi to  us the shift key to work..  I  selected the track I wanted to edit in the  track list. what am I missing? thank you so much.
David  

Slau Halatyn

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May 16, 2020, 3:37:08 PM5/16/20
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Hope this helps:
Troubleshooting for Editing in Pro Tools.html

David Dobler

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May 18, 2020, 9:58:27 PM5/18/20
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Hi Slau, I’ve discovered today when I was playing with my ProTools rig that when I press the button for the jog wheel on the gel Cooper it scrubs the audio but seems to deselect the track I was in the track window in the the list window where you select your tracks and Chris my controller has a button for select track I tried both and when I press the button to scrub with the chalk wheel it would deselect the track, any ideas signed puzzled :-) this is David

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Hello Slau, I'm sorry I couldn't get this to post, earlier, I am trying to edit a vocal track and couldn't   get the shift key to select the audio or midi to  us the shift key to work..  I  selected the track I wanted to edit in the  track list. what am I missing? thank you so much.
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David Dobler

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May 18, 2020, 10:50:40 PM5/18/20
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So I forgot to tell you, I get all the things that you suggested in the troubleshooting a document you sent thank you so much for all of your help we’ll get this figured out yet thanks again

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Slau Halatyn

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May 18, 2020, 11:35:46 PM5/18/20
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Hi David,
Scrubbing in a MIDI track will deselect it but it won't deselect an audio track. For MIDI tracks, you might want to use the arrow keys along with Shift to select notes rather than trying to scrub. That said, if you do scrub and use Shift to select a range, after selecting the range, move away from the track with Control+semicolon or Control+p and then back to the MIDI track and it'll be selected.
HTH,
Slau


David Dobler

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May 19, 2020, 8:49:17 PM5/19/20
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Hello Slau, Thank you for your help. I got every thing working! 
When you select midi notes to edit, can you change the way midi notes are heard  instead of single notes, to chords if they are played at the same time?using the arrows is there an option to change this? Thank you so much.
David

Slau Halatyn

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May 20, 2020, 12:59:41 PM5/20/20
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Hi David,

Glad you got it sorted. Using arrows to navigate and select is, by design, a single-note process so you can't hear chords in the way you'd like. There are other ways but it depends on your workflow. For example, it's possible to create a selection of, say, a quarter note at the start of a bar. as long as you don't have insertion following playback, pressing the Space bar will only play the selection range and all of the notes within that range are selected. Now, pressing Shift and the plus on the numeric keypad will move the selection range to the next quarter note. To be clear, that command doesn't move the notes but just the selection range. That way you can keep pressing Shift plus and audition each quarter-note section. That is fairly tedious. So, instead, you can set your selection range to one bar and audition greater amounts. If you come across a bar where the second half-note chord needs to be nudged over a bit, quickly make a selection from beat 2, tick 480 or so to beat 4, tick 480 or so and now your chord is sure to be selected, Change the nudge value to a smaller size and use the plus or minus keys on the num pad to nudge. Pro Tools Ultimate offers additional keyboard shortcuts to do things like nudge with greater amounts and extend or halve the selection range.
HTH,
Slau


David Dobler

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May 20, 2020, 2:16:35 PM5/20/20
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Thank you for all your help it is much appreciated. What is the difference between shuffle,Spot,Slip, and Absolute Grid in the edit mode cluster? A lot of this is slowly coming back to me, but not all of it.

Slau Halatyn

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May 20, 2020, 10:58:29 PM5/20/20
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Are you in the shared Drop Box folder?


David Dobler

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May 21, 2020, 12:44:43 AM5/21/20
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Yes, I do have dropbox use doble...@gmail.com 

David Dobler

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May 21, 2020, 2:46:29 PM5/21/20
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Thank you for sending the PT access folder. A very big help
David 
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