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A template is a signal pattern saved for reuse. It is inserted folded into a single pulse, so you can keep building the signal around it without the pattern taking over the screen, and it unfolds with a double-click when you need to edit it.
Templates exist in digital mode only. In analog the menu button is disabled with a notice.

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Two pieces not to be confused

Saved template

What is stored in the browser. It comes from marking whole channels or a selection of pulses, and belongs to no project.

Inserted template

A template already placed on the timeline. It carries its own copy of the contents: editing one insertion does not touch the others or the original template.

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Saving a template

From Menu → Templates → Save template. There are two sources:
You mark the channels that make up the template. They are stored whole, and each one remembers which channel it came from so it can go back there when inserted.The window shows how many are marked out of the total, with Mark all and Unmark all buttons, and flags which ones are hidden on the timeline.
The template carries a name, a description and a creation date.
Templates are stored in this browser, not in your account. The window says so itself: “For now it is stored in this browser.” Changing browser or machine, or clearing the site data, makes them disappear.If the browser refuses to write, it tells you: “The template could not be stored in the browser.”

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Inserting a template

From Menu → Templates → Open template:
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Pick the template

The list shows the name, the source (Channels or Selection) and the creation date. You also delete them from there.
2

Pick the pulse where it starts

The header asks for it: “Pick the pulse where the ‘X’ template starts · Esc to cancel”.

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Where each piece goes

Each template channel goes back to the channel it was saved from. If that channel no longer exists, it goes into the free ones, lowest to highest. If they do not all fit, the app tells you: “Not every template channel fits: N were left out.”
Inserting and unfolding a template add columns to the timeline, so they need the step count unlocked. With the padlock closed it warns: “Unlock the step count to insert or unfold a template.”

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Folded and unfolded

It takes up a single column across every channel, drawn as a striped high pulse. While it is like that, the editor treats it as one more pulse: you can select, copy, cut, paste and label it.Its real contents only appear when you unfold it, export, or save it again as a template.
It shows its steps on the timeline so you can change them. The contents move into the project signal, and the template stays empty until you fold it back.You unfold it with a double-click on the folded column, or from the Templates menu.
Folding packs it back into a single pulse, with whatever it holds at that moment.

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The template badge

A badge with its name and its actions appears over the inserted template:

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Copying with templates inside

If a folded template falls inside a stretch you copy, it travels with its contents: pasting it elsewhere it is still a folded template, not a loose pulse.