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-title: Toolbox
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-<img src="/images/toolbar-tools.png" alt="Editor toolbar's tools, aka toolbox">
-
-<h2>Global Edit mode</h2>
-
-<p>
- Ardour has a global <dfn>edit mode</dfn> selector at the left of the
- Editing toolbar, which affect how regions are moved or copied:
-</p>
-
-<dl>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Slide</kbd></dt>
- <dd>Regions move freely. Ardour creates overlaps when necessary.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Ripple</kbd></dt>
- <dd>Editing affects the regions to the "right" of the edit (see below).</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="menu">Lock</kbd></dt>
- <dd>No region motion is permitted (except for "nudge").</dd>
-</dl>
-
-<p>
- Ripple Edit mode provides the following conveniences:
- <ul>
- <li>Deleting a range will move later regions to compensate for the deleted time</li>
- <li>Deleting a region will move later regions to compensate for the deleted region's length</li>
- <li>Moving a region will move later regions to compensate for the length of the move</li>
- <li>Inserting a new region (via dragging or via Paste) will move later regions to the right to compensate</li>
- </ul>
-</p>
-
-<p class="note">
- If <kbd class="menu">Snap To Grid</kbd> is enabled, then regions can
- only move so that they align with locations determined by the current
- snap settings (beats, or seconds, or other region boundaries, etc).
- See <a href="/ardours-interface/the-grid-controls/">Snap To the Grid</a>
- for details.
-</p>
-
-<h2>The <em>Smart</em> switch
-
-<p>
- The <dfn>Smart Mode</dfn> button to the left of the mouse mode buttons
- modifies the <dfn>Grab Mode</dfn>. When enabled, the mouse behaves as if it
- is in "Range Mode" in the upper half of a region, and in "Grab Mode" in the
- lower half. This allows avoiding constant switching between these two modes.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Mouse Modes</h2>
-
-<dl class="wide-table">
- <dt id="object">Grab Mode</dt>
- <dd>The <dfn>Grab Mode</dfn> is used for selecting, moving, deleting and
- copying objects. When in object mode, the mouse pointer appears as a hand
- whenever it is over the track canvas or the rulers. The mouse can now be
- used to select and perform operations on objects such as regions, markers etc.
- This is the most common mode to work in, as it allows you to select and move regions,
- as well as modify automation points on the automation tracks.</dd>
-
- <dt>Range Mode</dt>
- <dd>When in <dfn>Range Mode</dfn>, the mouse pointer appears as a vertical line
- whenever it is over the track canvas or the rulers. The mouse will now be
- able to select a point or range of time. Time ranges can be selected over
- one or several tracks, depending on the selection of your tracks.<br>
- If none of your tracks are selected, the Range Tool will operate on all the
- session track visualized in the Editor.<br>
- If you want to edit only particular tracks, select them before you apply
- the range tool.</dd>
-
- <dt>Cut Tool Mode</dt>
- <dd>When in <dfn>Cut Tool Mode</dfn>, the mouse pointer appears as a pair of scissors
- whenever it is over the track canvas or the rulers. This tools allows to cut
- any region into 2 regions at the mouse cursor, regardless of the Edit Point.<br>
- If one or more track(s) is selected, then all the regions on these tracks will
- be split at the mouse cursor position.<br>
- If no track is selected, then only the region hovered by the mouse cursor will
- be split.</dd>
-
- <dt>Stretch Mode</dt>
- <dd>When in <dfn>time fx</dfn> mode, the mouse pointer appears as a
- distinctive expanding square symbol whenever it is over the track canvas or
- the rulers. This mode is used to resize regions using a timestretch
- algorithm. Click on an edge of a region of audio and drag it one way or the other to
- stretch or shrink the region.</dd>
-
- <dt>Audition Tool</dt>
- <dd>Clicking a region using the <dfn>audition tool</dfn> will play this
- region to the control room outputs.<br>
- You can also <dfn>scrub</dfn> with this tool by clicking and dragging in
- the direction you wish to listen. The amount you drag in one direction or
- the other will determine the playback speed.</dd>
-
- <dt>Draw Tool</dt>
- <dd>When in <dfn>Draw Tool</dfn> mode, the mouse pointer will change to
- a pencil. You can then click within an audio region to change the <dfn>gain
- envelope</dfn> for that region. This curve is separate from fader automation
- for individual tracks. It will remain locked to the region's time, so if the
- region is moved, the region gain envelope is moved along with it.<br>
- The draw tool works on automation too, allowing the creation and modification
- of control points on the automation curves.<br>
- Last, it is used on a MIDI region to edit the notes.</dd>
-
- <dt>Internal/Region Edit Mode</dt>
- <dd>When in <dfn>Internal Edit</dfn> mode, the mouse pointer will change to
- cross-hairs. This tool acts on gegion gain and automation as the Draw tool.<br>
- On a MIDI region, it allows to lasso-select multiple notes at a time.</dd>
-</dl>
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