Simple question on Arrangement editing

[ErnstEiswürfel]

Hey all,
I'm used to Logic, and I have a simple question that's driving me crazy..

How can I select multiple clips in Arrangement view? All I can get is that yellow select-rectangle that goes over all of the tracks!
PC users have told me I need to hold CTRL, but on Mac this opens the contextual menu.
Usually I would guess 'Apple' is the right key to hold - which actually works in session view! But in arrange view this is just another way of doing a rectangle.

The manual doesnt say a word...

What's wrong with me??

[pailo]

that should select everything. apple + a.
if not use the mouse to select only the tracks you want.

*in clip view start with the track window you want to highlight first clip
till the last clip.

*in session view you may have to watch where you click. its underneath the audio
itself. between tracks. sometimes in session view i will make a blank audio track
to make editing easier. it gives you blank space to click on to highlight particular clip
regions in an above track.

joseph

[ErnstEiswürfel]

i might have been misunderstood..
See the picture.
I want to select (only) the red clips all together and drag them to the right.


...so the desired result would look like this:


But trying to select multiple clips (e.g. by holding 'shift' or 'apple'?) always makes a rectangle-selection all over the arrangement. So what I'm getting is this:


I cant seem to find a way to do this, other than dragging all the clips seperately, which is pretty annoying especially when you have clips that are supposed to be placed independently from the grid.

[Da hand]

Good question. I just tried it on PC with CTRL and it does not work. So maybe there is no such option? It would seem like an oversight.

Anyone have a trick for this?

[longjohns]

As far as I know it is not possible

Why not, I do not know

[ErnstEiswürfel]

dear mr. ableton, please implement this simple but helpful function!

[taximouse]

yup, not possible.

drives me BONKERS because i need to do this all the time.

i'm actually right now, dragging part of a similar set of 30 tracks, clip by clip, by painful clip.

i just make sure to save right before i start, and then don't save until i'm done, because i invariable screw it up, especially if the clips are deliberately amporphous and not locked to tempo

feature request.