--- layout: default title: Selecting Regions ---
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 Selection Equivalence for more information on precisely how selections will be propagated to other tracks.
Please read Region & Track Selection for more information on how selecting regions and selecting tracks interact.
Click on the region. If smart editing is enabled, click in the lower half of the region.
click the region. If smart editing is enabled, click in the lower half of the region.
Note that click simply toggles the selected status of an object, so it can be used to select unselected regions too
Do one of the following:
click or Shift-click the regions you wish to select.
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.
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.