Copy and paste takes three steps and a trip to the cursor. Stamping takes one: what you marked is the stamp, and every ⌘-click puts a copy where you click. A ghost under the pointer shows what will land, it snaps to the grid (hold ⌥ for free placement), and each stamp is one undo step.
Mark it, then ⌘-click
Select a clip, mark notes, or play a slice, then hold ⌘ and click wherever the next copy should go. Keep clicking to lay down as many as you need; the mark stays. With nothing marked, the same ⌘-click draws a new empty clip or note instead.
Clips on the timeline
With a clip selected, ⌘-click an empty spot to stamp a copy there. On the clip’s own track the copy is linked; on another track of the same kind it is a copy of its own. Audio clips stamp only onto tracks that play the same sample, and automation clips onto automation lanes. Drag after the click to give the copy another length. More: Clips.
Notes in the piano roll
Inside an open MIDI clip, mark notes or drag a region, then ⌘-click: the copy lands on the clicked beat and row, and a drag sets its length. A region stamps exactly what lies inside it. More: Piano Roll.
Slices from a sample
Select an audio clip, play one of its slices on the letter keys, and ⌘-click on the same track: that slice alone lands there as its own clip. More: Slices.
From the library: chords and patterns
⌥P arms a chord shape or a pattern from your library. While it is armed, the next plain click places it, on the timeline or inside a clip. More: Patterns.
The keyboard twin: hold and Return
Hold a note, a chord or a slice on the letter keys and press Return while still holding: it is written at the edit cursor, no record mode needed, and the cursor steps on so the next press lands right after it. Still holding, → and ← lengthen and shorten what you just wrote. More: Step Entry.
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