Changing the Edit Selection

Pro Tools provides several keyboard shortcuts for moving and extending or decreasing the range of an Edit (or Timeline) selection.

To move the selection down to the next track:

Press Start+; (semicolon) (Windows) or Control+; (semicolon) (Mac).

To extend the Edit selection down across tracks, Press Start+Shift+; (semicolon) (Windows) or Control+Shift+; (semicolon) (Mac).

To move the selection up to the next track:

Press Start+P (Windows) or Control+P (Mac).

To extend the Edit selection up across tracks, Press Start+Shift+P (Windows) or Control+Shift+P (Mac).

To move the selection forward by the selection amount:

Press Control+Alt+Start+’ (single quote) (Windows) or Command+Control+Option+’ (single quote) (Mac).

To move the selection backward by the selection amount:

Press Control+Alt+Start+L (Windows) or Command+Control+Option+L (Mac).

To double the Edit selection:

Press Control+Alt+Start+Shift+’ (single quote) (Windows) or Command+Control+Option+Shift+’ (single quote) (Mac).

To halve the Edit selection:

Press Control+Alt+Start+Shift+L (Windows) or Command+Control+Option+Shift+L (Mac).