Event selection follows track selection?

[nhc]

This might be a beginners question: I'm working on a session and created a pattern event on an instrument track using NI Battery. Now I create another instrument track to record a pad sound to an empty track while the pattern editor is still open, as I didn't close the editor manually . Although I selected the second instrument track, the pattern event on the first track is still selected. When I start recording my synth pad, the opened pattern editor activates "record arm mode" and records my chords in addition to the instrument track with my synth-plugin. So my question is: is there a setting to automatically deselect all events on a track, when the track is no longer selected? Or is there another way to not unintentionally recording notes while the pattern editor is still open?

 

[Jens]

You can try to check "Instrument Input follows Selection" (click the wrench icon) but be aware that the pattern mode is somewhat broken (or highly unintuitive) anyway because there's a disconnect between track/event selection and pattern/drum editor:

1. Create an empty event by double clicking.
2. Right click event and pick "Instrument Parts -> Insert Pattern".
3. Double click event to open the Pattern editor.
4. Enter a pattern for the kick.
5. Select the track by clicking on the track panel. The drum editor appears but without the kick pattern.
6. Enter a snare pattern.
7. Toggle the pattern/drum editor by clicking on the track or event.
8. The event in the arranger view shows (and plays) both patterns, the track selection shows only the drum snare pattern, the event selection shows only the kick pattern.

 

[nhc]

Thanks for your reply, but I think, this is not the point. I made a short video to demonstrate what's happening:

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