Selecting multiple clips - huh?

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Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by jamester » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:31 pm

You can't Ctrl-click to select multiple clips in the Arrangement view? Is this right? And Shift-click forces all clips in the region to be selected too?

WTF? How are you supposed to copy/paste parts to build an arrangement?

I looked in the manual, there is nothing about selecting multiple individual clips, only the Shift-click method. Please tell me I'm missing something....
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Post by sweetjesus » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:02 pm

it works fine here?
you cant select multiple clips and not select the stuff in between them however...

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Post by jamester » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:16 pm

sweetjesus wrote: you cant select multiple clips and not select the stuff in between them however...
That's what I'm getting at! This is bizarre to me- First off, cntrl-click to multiple select items is a basic function (at least for windows), every program I've ever used supported this! Second, this means when building arrangements I have to copy everything in a selection, and then delete the stuff out that I don't want? How tedious!

So I continue my love/hate relationship with Live...when I'm not using it I miss it, when I try to bunker down and do some real work with it I find I'm constantly amazed and annoyed at all these types of "little things".
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Thanks for the response though!
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Post by Tone Deft » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:20 pm

From what I've done, there is no difference in how Live uses ctrl-click and Windows apps use ctrl-click. I'm missing something here?
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Post by jamester » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:24 pm

Tone Deft wrote:From what I've done, there is no difference in how Live uses ctrl-click and Windows apps use ctrl-click. I'm missing something here?
Try to select and copy/move different clips on different tracks which aren't lined up with each other. It can't be done except for selecting *everything* in that general region!
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Post by Goran@Irrupt » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:58 pm

jamester wrote: This is bizarre to me- First off, cntrl-click to multiple select items is a basic function (at least for windows), every program I've ever used supported this! Second, this means when building arrangements I have to copy everything in a selection, and then delete the stuff out that I don't want? How tedious!
i feel ya mate. i was braging about this 1000 times on this forum.
and i always felt like i was the only one?! :?

every day i pray that this will be changed in the next version of Live.

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Post by jamester » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:39 am

Good WebSite, thanks for confirming this. It is ludicrous imho...
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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by alchemorph » Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:24 am

This still cannot be done even in Live 10???? This is so crap and annoying and making me think of changing DAW

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by supadisco » Wed May 13, 2020 8:37 am

agree, this is crazy and can't believe there's not an easy quick command fix.

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by goldenechos » Thu May 14, 2020 1:14 am

Just putting in another vote for this functionality. T

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by Florian360 » Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:52 pm

this is still not possible tf is this!?

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by ozinga » Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:30 pm

wow a post from 2007! I don't think it is coming despite all the requests for multi clip selecting fading trimming etc..

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by Ardkok » Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:51 am

Yep please add this feature! Major workflow improvement!

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by Fotis K » Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:53 pm

+1 for this primitive function. Arranging in Live is a nightmare if you have used any other daw

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Re: Selecting multiple clips - huh?

Post by Tarik Barri » Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:05 pm

+1 yes please, I feel so silly repeating certain actions 100 times in stead of just selecting the clips and doing the actions just once

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