> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gridshift.studio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Focus Mode
> Opens one clip for detailed editing right inside the timeline, so the rest of your arrangement stays on screen. Select a clip and press ⌥↓, or double-click it.
## Open a clip in Focus Mode
Select a clip and press `⌥↓`, or double-click it. Its track expands into the clip's editor. Press `Escape` or `⌥↑` to leave.
## Move between clips
Press `Tab` to open the next clip on the track, `⇧Tab` the one before, without leaving Focus Mode. Or click another clip on the track.
## Which page do you need
* [Piano Roll](/edit/piano-roll.md): draw, mark, move and stamp the notes of a MIDI clip.
* [Pitch Snap and Reference Track](/edit/pitch-snap.md): keep notes in the scale or on the chord, and see another track's notes behind the roll.
* [Audio Clips](/edit/audio-clips.md): play an audio clip's slices from the keyboard, set its gain, cut it at a slice.
* [Automation Clips](/edit/automation-clips.md): points, shapes, bends, the LFO and step recording on one curve.
* [Dynamics Mode](/edit/dynamics-mode.md): draw clip gain and note velocity as steps, on the timeline or in the roll.
## Good to know
* **Use Focus Mode when a clip needs more than moving or trimming**: notes, slices or a curve.
* **Other tracks shrink to a 24 pt row** above and below the focused one instead of disappearing.
* **Leaving restores the view.** Zoom, scroll position and every track height come back as they were. If you entered from Compact, you return to Compact.
* **`Escape` first undoes the smaller thing.** With notes, points or a region marked, the first press only clears the mark; with the clip picker open or a stamp armed, it closes or disarms that. The next press leaves Focus Mode.
* **`⌥↑` leaves only when nothing is marked.** With notes marked it moves them up instead.
> **Details**
>
> * **Each clip type opens its own editor**: a MIDI clip the [piano roll](/edit/piano-roll.md), an audio clip a [slice band](/edit/audio-clips.md), an automation clip the [curve editor](/edit/automation-clips.md).
> * **`⌥↓` is the Focus rung of the timeline's zoom ladder**, and `⌥↑` steps back one rung at a time. A MIDI clip has one more rung, the piano roll at full window height. The whole ladder: [Zoom and Navigate](/arrange/zoom-and-navigate.md).
> * **`⌥↓` runs Command Palette → Enter Focus Mode**, for audio, MIDI and automation clips alike. `⌥↑` is **Exit Focus Mode**.
> * **`Tab` and `⇧Tab` are Focus Next Clip and Focus Previous Clip.** The editor jumps to that clip and the view follows it.
> * **Every clip on the focused track carries a thin header strip.** Press in the strip to drag the clip; press below it to edit.
> * **Clicking another clip on the focused track switches to it**; a click on another track leaves Focus Mode.
> * **The focus bar floats centered at the top of the window**, just below the toolbar. What it holds depends on the clip type; each editor's page lists its own controls. Every bar ends with an **Exit Focus Mode** button (`Esc`).
> * **The bar starts with the clip picker**, a shade swatch with a badge counting the clips linked together. It switches clips, unlinks one, or links identical clips: [Linked Clips](/arrange/linked-clips.md).
> **Keys**
>
> | Action | Shortcut |
> | - | - |
> | Enter Focus Mode | `⌥↓` or double-click |
> | Exit Focus Mode | `Escape` or `⌥↑` |
> | Focus Next / Previous Clip | `Tab` / `⇧Tab` |
>
> Every key inside the editors: [Focus Mode Shortcuts](/shortcuts/focus-mode.md).
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