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Modern editing workflows
These control-thread edits preserve project format 15. Session selections, clipboard and comparison snapshots are not saved in projects. Audio callbacks continue to consume prepared plans; edits use the existing stop/history workflow.
Phase 47
Shift-click clips to toggle selection; Ctrl+A in the sequencer or Edit/Select all clips selects every clip. Plain clicking replaces the selection. Selection is session UI state; no marquee selection yet.
Phase 48
Use Left/Right in the sequencer (or Edit/Nudge selection) to move the selected phrase by the current snap step. Ctrl+D duplicates after its complete bounding span; Delete removes selected clips. Edits are atomic and undoable. Mouse dragging remains a single-clip gesture.
Phase 49
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V in the sequencer, or Edit/Copy clips and Paste clips at cursor, copy/paste the selection. Earliest clip lands on the cursor. The earliest source track maps to the currently selected destination track; intervening track spacing is retained. All required tracks must already exist and must not be buses. Instruments, automation and media bytes are not copied. The clipboard survives document changes within the window but is not the OS clipboard.
Phase 50
Edit/Repeat selected phrase asks for 1..1024 additional copies. The bounding span includes gaps and overlaps; copies remain on their original tracks. The entire repeat is one undo step. Clip/note capacity and timeline endpoints can limit the requested count.
Phase 51
Edit/Align clip starts to cursor places every selected start at the cursor. Slip sources earlier/later changes source offsets by the snap step while retaining timeline positions and durations. Trimming must leave source material available; an invalid slip rejects the whole selection. No time stretching or destructive media edits are performed.
Phase 52
Select MIDI clips and use Edit/MIDI tools/Swing quantize. Grid is in source ticks; swing delays alternate subdivisions by 0..half a grid step, while strength blends the old start toward the nearest swung point. Durations stay fixed. All source notes are affected, including notes outside visible trims. Mixed audio/MIDI selections and notes that would exceed source bounds reject the entire edit. This is destructive note editing with undo, not a live groove engine.
Phase 53
Edit/MIDI tools/Note gate scales lengths from 1 to 400 percent, rounded to at least one tick. Legato ends notes at the next strictly later onset in the same clip and channel; notes in a chord end together. The final onset extends to source end. Gate expansion beyond the source rejects the whole edit. Undo restores original durations.
Phase 54
Edit/MIDI tools/Correct to scale takes a root (0=C through 11=B) and chromatic, major or natural minor. Each pitch moves to the nearest permitted MIDI note; ties choose the lower pitch. Timing, channel and velocity remain unchanged. Corrections can produce unison notes; notes are not merged. This changes MIDI notes, not audio pitch or a live scale filter.