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Often you will want to work with more than one variation at once. For example, you might start by inserting common material into all the variations you intend to enable. You might also want to create several identical copies of a variation so that it will have a greater chance of being selected for playback. This topic describes how to activate and enable multiple variations quickly, and discusses some implications of working with notes that may belong to different active variations.
The following methods simplify the activation and enabling of multiple variations:
When you make multiple variations active, all notes in the open variations are displayed, even if notes in different variations overlap or duplicate one another. Notes you enter are added to all active variations. If you select and edit a note's pitch, length, start time, end time, duration, or other properties, only the variations containing that note are affected. You can view and change the set of variations a note belongs to on the Variations/Flags Tab of the Note Properties window.
If a note belongs to multiple variations and is deleted while only some of those variations are active, the note is deleted only from the variations that are active.
When you copy a note by dragging it, the copy belongs to the same variations as the original, but only to the ones that are active. For example, suppose a note belongs to variations 1 and 3, but variations 1 and 2 are active. You press the CTRL key and drag the note so that a copy of it is made. The new note is added only to variation 1, not to variation 2.
Notes pasted from the Clipboard, however, belong to every variation that is active, regardless of which variations they were copied from.