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Auto Select Event under Play Cursor on Selected Track

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asked Jan 10, 2019 in Editing by danchase (860 points)
It would be great if an option were available to automatically select the event on the selected track that is currently under the play cursor. This is the one thing that prevents me from editing completely on a controller, which is a workflow I've become very used to in other DAWs like Cubase.

For example, you're working on a lead vocal track and have it selected. You're jogging through, you get to a point where you want to lower the clip gain of a specific word. You split at the play cursor, jog to the end of the word, split at the play cursor. At this point you've created a new event that you can raise/lower the clip gain of, but no way to select it without the mouse pointer or the arrow keys. If this feature was an option, the event would already be selected by the play cursor.

Thanks.

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answered Aug 3, 2021 by taylorscott2 (4,270 points)
@danchase, I know you asked this like 2.5 years ago, but I was wondering the same thing and made a macro that does just this!

The macro is simply these three commands (in this order):

-Create Range from Cursor

-Create Ranges on Tracks

-Select Events in Range

Once you make that, map it to a keyboard shortcut and voila! The Event under the cursor on the selected track is selected, and the cursor goes to the beginning of the event.
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