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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.

Region Selection and Track Selection

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

To select a region

Click on the region. If smart editing is enabled, click in the lower half of the region.

To deselect a 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

To select multiple regions in the same track

Do one of the following:

click each region
drag from a point in "empty space" in track before the first region you wish to select to a point within or after the last region you wish to select. You can use drag to do this multiple times
if the regions are all adjacent to one another, click the first region you wish to select, then Shift-click the last region you wish to select

To select multiple regions in different tracks

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

To 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.

To 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.