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Dave, what do you use this technique for? Personally what I use the most is the Marquee tool: drag the Marquee to select a portion of waveform, or Option-click a region with the Marquee to select the whole region, then drag the automation line within the marquee selection up or down to adjust its level. That creates 4 nodes at the selection borders, which is very useful to me... hopefully it helps you too.
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Not a marquee tool guy so far, will try that and hope that work process gets feelin right. I use the 'two nodes on either side of an event within a region' for drawing automation to boost or cut syllables in a vocal , for example.
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Yeah I use the Marquee for that. It took me a while to get used to the Marquee but I can't stop using it now. My toolset is the default [left-click = Pointer, command-click = Marquee] and I can do just about everything I need to do without ever switching to another tool.

 

For your application, I command-drag the section I want to lower/raise and drag it up/down:

 

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got the marquee tool on key comand "U" and pointer next to it on "Y"

FWIW the default toolset allows you to have the Pointer by default and the Marquee by pressing Command, which I personally find easier than switching tools with key commands. So basically

 

• Click/drag = Pointer

• Command-click/drag = Marquee

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Another vote for the Command-click Marquee tool and it was David who got me using it! :)

 

It's great for automation duties as well as slicing regions, highlighting sections for copying, and more. VERY handy.

 

Oh, and you can also create 4 nodes at a region's boundaries if you add the Option key and click on the top of the region, then drag up or down.

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You're welcome guys, the Marquee is truly a great multi-function tool, and I've grown to love it.

 

Note that you can also use arrow keys and Shift-arrow keys to snap the marquee selection to transients (audio region) or Note start/end (MIDI region).

 

you can also create 4 nodes at a region's boundaries if you add the Option key and click on the top of the region

... Option-Marquee click anywhere in the region.

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You're welcome guys, the Marquee is truly a great multi-function tool, and I've grown to love it.

 

Note that you can also use arrow keys and Shift-arrow keys to snap the marquee selection to transients (audio region) or Note start/end (MIDI region).

 

you can also create 4 nodes at a region's boundaries if you add the Option key and click on the top of the region

... Option-Marquee click anywhere in the region.

 

Hmm.... I can''t make it do that in LP 9.1.5 - if I click anywhere else other than the region's top, I just get a one pixel Marquee zone. Needs a later version?

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