<dfn>corresponding regions</dfn> of the other tracks in that group.
</p>
<p>
- For example, let's assume you have used multiple microphones to record a
- drum kit to multiple tracks. You have created a track group, added all the
- drum tracks, enabled the group and enabled the Select property for the group.
- When you select a region in one of the drum tracks, Ardour will select the
- corresponding region in every other drum track, which in turn means that a
- subsequent edit operation will affect all the drum tracks together.
+ This can be particularly useful when an instrument has been recorded using
+ multiple microphones (e.g. a drum kit): by enabling the <kbd class="option">Select</kbd>
+ property for the group, selecting a region in one of the tracks, Ardour will select
+ the corresponding region in every other track of the group, which in turn means
+ that a subsequent edit operation will affect all the tracks together.
</p>
<h2>How Ardour Decides Which Regions are "Corresponding"</h2>
of sharing <dfn>selection</dfn> if they satisfy <em>all</em> the following criteria:
</p>
<ol>
- <li>Each region starts at the <dfn>same offset</dfn> within its source file,</li>
+ <li>each region starts at the <dfn>same offset</dfn> within its source file,</li>
<li>each region is located at the <dfn>same position</dfn> on the timeline, and</li>
<li>each region has the <dfn>same length</dfn>.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Overlap Correspondence</h2>
<p>
- Sometimes, the rules outlined above are too strict to get Ardour to do what you
- want. Regions may have been trimmed to slightly different lengths, or positioned
- slightly differently, and this will cause Ardour to not select regions in other
- grouped tracks.</p>
+ Sometimes, the rules outlined above are too strict to get Ardour to consider regions
+ as corresponding. Regions may have been trimmed to slightly different lengths,
+ or positioned slightly differently, and this will cause Ardour to not select
+ regions in other grouped tracks.
+</p>
<p>
- In this case, change
+ In this case, changing
<kbd class="menu">Edit > Preferences > Editor > Regions in
active edit groups are edited together:</kbd> to <kbd
- class="menu">whenever they overlap in time</kbd>. With this option enabled,
- regions in different tracks will be considered equivalent for the purposes of selection if they
+ class="menu">whenever they overlap in time</kbd> will allow regions in different
+ tracks to be considered equivalent for the purposes of selection if they
<dfn>overlap</dfn>. This is much more flexible and will cover almost all of the
cases that the fixed rules above might make cumbersome.
</p>
-