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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....

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

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".



Thanks for the response though!

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?

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!

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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Good WebSite, thanks for confirming this. It is ludicrous imho...

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

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

Just putting in another vote for this functionality. T

this is still not possible tf is this!?

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

Yep please add this feature! Major workflow improvement!

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

+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