Copy, Paste & Undo
Editing a beat almost always means repeating something with small changes: duplicating a fill, copying a chain to build a variation, moving a run of steps. ElkTracker's clipboard works cell-by-cell or as a selected range, on the Song, Chain, and Phrase screens.
Single cell
| Combo | Action |
|---|---|
Select+A |
Copy the cell under the cursor |
Select+B |
Cut the cell under the cursor |
R2 |
Paste |
On Song this is one chain number; on Chain it's the whole step (phrase + transpose); on Phrase it's the whole step (note, instrument, both FX slots).
Selecting a range
Select+Aon a cell sets the anchor there and showsMARK SET — MOVE TO SELECT, A TO COPY.- Move the cursor with the D-pad up or down to grow the range from the anchor to the selected row.
Select+Aagain copies the range;Select+Bcuts it.
A range always copies whole rows. On Phrase, that's all six columns (note, instrument, both FX slots) regardless of which column your cursor was on; on Chain it's both columns (phrase + transpose).
Pasting a range starts at the cursor and simply stops if it would run past the bottom of the grid.
Plain B (without Select) cancels an active selection. The status bar confirms with SELECTION CLEARED.
Duplicating a whole slot
On the Chain, Phrase, or Instrument screen, Select+R2 opens a picker listing every unused slot of that type. Confirming copies the current chain/phrase/instrument into it and switches your view to the new copy (handy for "same drum pattern, now change the fill" without hand
re-entering every step).
Undo / redo
| Combo | Action |
|---|---|
L2 |
Undo |
Select+L2 |
Redo |
Up to 64 steps of history. Rapid edits (holding a value while scrubbing with A+D-pad, for example) coalesce into a single undo step rather than one per tick, so undo rewinds by edit, not by keystroke. History is cleared whenever you load or start a new project.