Grouping Objects

Multiple objects selected together can be edited together. However, such a multiple selection exists only as long as no other object is selected. In order to always select several related objects together, they can be combined into a group. When you select an object of an object group, all objects of the group are always selected as well. They can now only be moved as a group; the distances between the objects in the group are retained. All changes you make to an object are applied to all group members.

Note: The same restrictions apply here regarding the editing of object fades as for a multiple selection of objects.

Grouping and Ungrouping

	To group objects, select all objects to be grouped and either click the "Group" icon in the toolbar or select Object > Groups > Group objects in the menu or in the context menu of an object. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + G
	To ungroup the group of objects, select it and either click the "Ungroup" icon in the toolbar or choose Object > Groups > Ungroup objects from the menu or the context menu of an object. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + U

Each object group is assigned an internal number in sequence. This number is displayed in a dedicated column in the Object manager. Optionally, you can display this number on the object by activating the Group number option in the project view options (keyboard shortcut: Shift + Tab) under Objects There you can also activate the option Group colors at Waveform color. Then the objects of each group get their own automatically assigned color. This will ensure that you can easily distinguish the groups from each other.

Temporarily Detaching Objects from a Group

Sometimes you want to edit the object position or volume of a single object of the group separately. Normally, you would have to ungroup, edit the individual object, and then regroup all objects. To make this tedious and error-prone procedure easier, there are some special commands:

• With menu Object > Groups > Temporarily exclude object from group (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + U or Shift + click on the "Ungroup" button) you ungroup the last clicked object from an existing group. The object can now be selected and edited separately, but remembers that it belonged to a group. You can also edit other objects as you go along, and even detach other objects from this or any other group. If you select this object later and execute the function again, the object will be added to the group again.

• With menu Object > Groups > Temporarily exclude all objects from groups (Shift + Alt + click on the "Ungroup" button) you temporarily ungroup all objects from their groups. Now all group objects can be edited separately.

  To indicate this state, the button for "Ungroup" flashes.

  The groups are restored by calling the function again or by pressing the flashing button for "Ungroup".

When saving the project, the temporary states are ignored and the project is saved as if all objects are in their groups.

You can also combine groups with other groups or objects to form higher-level groups. When such groups are ungrouped, the grouping status of their elements is retained. However, this only affects the top level. Further ungrouping of the groups always leads to individual objects, regardless of how deeply nested the group structure was before.

This allows you to combine objects that are grouped vertically after a multi-track recording into horizontal groups.This means you can also combine the objects that are grouped vertically after a multi-track recording into horizontal groups. When these groups are ungrouped, the vertical grouping is retained.