# Clip instances?
**URL:** https://forum.zrythm.org/t/clip-instances/600
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [August 17, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/clip-instances/600 "2026-08-17T06:22:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Simon\_Heggie](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/Simon_Heggie)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/clip-instances/600/1 "2026-08-17T06:22:14Z")
Hi,
I’m testing v2 for ease of workflow effort.
Track instancing (as opposed to cloning); how is that done in Zrythm?
As in I edit one clip and all the same clips instanced throughout the project change.
Even on different lanes or different tracks.
Thankfully you can actually test what I’m talking about:
[opendaw.studio](https://opendaw.studio)
To reproduce without getting out the midi instrument;
First make an ‘event’ to instance. In the timeline, add an instrument (Example: ‘Vaporisateur’); double click on the track space to the right of that to add a new midi ‘event’. In the editor below add some midi notes by double-clicking on the space to the right of the piano keys.
Now to instance that event, drag it with the left click of your mouse and then hold ctrl + shift and now when you release that you’ll have a linked track. You have a similar command but just for ctrl, and this ‘clones’ the object but I want an instance.
The ‘mirrored copy’ of the event links from any track in any channel; and no matter how many copies; you’d still just be able to edit any of them once to update all of them.
They refer to this as a ‘Mirrored Copy’… But it’s not mirroring ANYTHING - it’s instancing… I withheld that terminology to prevent any confusion here…
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It says:
2.3 Moving Events
- **Click + drag** a selected event to move all selected events
- Events snap to grid positions and to other event values
- Hold **⇧** to disable value snapping
- Hold **⌥** to copy events instead of moving them
- Hold **⌥⇧** to create mirrored copies
I was just wondering how I achieve this kind of workflow in Zrythm?
If not, this would turn into a feature request 😉
-S
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### Author:  [@alex](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/clip-instances/600/2 "2026-08-18T09:15:31Z")
Clip linking? It’s supposed to work with alt + drag in Zrythm but it’s not implemented yet in v2.
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### Author:  [@Simon\_Heggie](https://forum.zrythm.org/u/Simon_Heggie)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.zrythm.org/t/clip-instances/600/3 "2026-08-19T11:44:14Z")
Glad to know it exists, any idea when it will be included in v2?
Looking forward to testing it. 🙂
-S