• Logic is regions based.
• DP is selections based.
In DP we learn to create detailed selections, or use time-range selections. You can even save time ranges. To that end, we have the many means of selecting and holding a selection, including the Search menu (Edit/Search) which can save searches for reuse once you have set one up. It's quite detailed, and it's a good idea to learn its parameters so you can incorporate it into your workflow. It will append or modify existing selections, too.
You can take a selection and move it to any point with the SHIFT dialog, (Edit/Shift or COMMAND-L). You can stretch them, flip them, or anything you need to do. It's easier in the long run to use selections, because you have to select what you want to work with, anyway. It's nice to be able to add to a selection, remove from a selection, etc.
Then there are continuous controllers that must stay with their notes when moving them. That's basically converting an event selection into a range selection.
Here is a post in the Tips Sheet Thread about that.I recommend reading it, because it requires a little setup in the form of adding keyboard shortcuts to commands (Commands Window, SHIFT-L)
To gain proficiency in DP, you learn fast ways of isolating what you want in a selection, then memorize the keyboard commands for the processes you use the most. The most basic bulk selection is the region between markers. To do that, of course, you need to use markers for the boundaries of sections within your songs/sequences. Just click a marker, and it selects from that marker to the next, or to the end if there are no more markers. That can be a region, if you like.
Means of amplifying or isolating selections include (I'm re-listing some of these):
- SHIFT-Drag, adds to or deletes from your selection
- SHIFT-Click, adds to or deletes from your selection
- Search Menu, allows broad search& find using boolean logic, including searches for data types, rhythms, pitches, durations, velocities, time ranges, and anything else you can imagine... almost.
- Split Notes, a less-inclusive set of parameters, but similar in some ways to the search menu. Has its own specialties. Take a look to learn about it.
- Preferences for Time Range, Event, or both kinds of selections: go to Preferences, Editing/Tools, and look for menu at top of window where it probably will say "Use both Range and Event Selections." Or something like that. (Note: even when using Range selections, you can click on events to select them, and when using Event selections, you can drag ranges in the timeline.)
It's best to get in the habit of holding down the SHIFT key when working with Selections, so that you maintain them until you're done.
Note that selections in lists are held, added to, or subtracted from by holding COMMAND. Apple made the change many years ago, and MOTU had to adapt DP to it. We have too many things invested in the SHIFT key and COMMAND key to mix them up, so MOTU compromised and made lists (tracks, bundles, I/O, etc.) according to the Apple spec, but data selection within the edit windows is still maintained with the SHIFT key. If it's text, you'll use COMMAND. If it's data, you'll use SHIFT.
I probably have left a lot out. I make this post at least once a month, but I always think I can make it shorter and better, so I write each one from scratch. Feel free to ask anything you want.
Please note that it's no oversight that DP uses selections instead of regions. That is probably the #1 most often asked for feature by new users, and the #1 most resisted feature by old-time DP users. We have worked in Logic and in DP, and some of us prefer it this way by far. It's just a choice.
Shooshie
PS: Here is a post from the Tips Sheet in which I expanded on the above:
Working with Selections, Part Two This one even explains how to use the "regions" in the Tracks Window.