Many editing operations in Ardour require you to first select one or more regions that you want to change in some way. You can select a single region, or multiple regions, including regions in different tracks. When you select a region, it will appear in a darker color than unselected regions.

Note that if a track is a member of a group that is active and has the Select property enabled, then Ardour will attempt to match whatever selections you make in one track across every other track of the group. See Corresponding Regions Selection for more information on precisely how selections will be propagated to other tracks.

Region Selection and Track Selection

Please read Region & Track Selection for more information on how selecting regions and selecting tracks interact.

Select a Region

Confirm that you are using the Grab Mode tool, then click on a region to select it. If Smart mode is enabled, click in the lower half of the region.

Deselect a Region

Confirm you are using the Grab Mode tool, then Left-click the region. If Smart mode is enabled, click in the lower half of the region.

Note that a left click simply toggles the selected status of an object, so it can be used to select unselected regions too.

Select Multiple Regions in a Track

Do one of the following:

• Left-click each region, or
• drag a rubberband box from an empty point in a track before the first region you wish to select to a point within or after the last region you wish to select (you can left-drag to do this multiple times), or,
• if the regions are all adjacent to one another, click the first region you wish to select, then Left-click the last region you wish to select.

Select All Regions in a Track

Context-click the track, and in the context menu, navigate to Select > Select All In Track.

See the Track Context Menu for more information on other per-track selection operations that are available.

Select Multiple Regions Across Different Tracks

Left-click or Left-click the regions you wish to select.

Select a Region From the Region List

Click the name of the region in the Region List. Note that this will do nothing for whole-file regions, since they do not exist anywhere in a playlist or track.