Transformation?

Within C13, spectralayers 12: Trying to start over at the beginning, and following the manual. so I have a couple of layers, and it suggests clicking a couple of frequencies with the add frequency button. I click that, but I still have the frequency selection tool and it doesn’t highlight anything individual. So I try to get a regular cursor and click the thing in the upper right with the arrow and a cross and now I am doing some transformation I didn’t want and it at preparing selection transformation at 7% and seems stuck, I don’t know what is going on, and had to use C-A-D to close Cubase and lose whatever I did before saving. What happened so easily, unwanted, major that was going on?

After starting over and reading more, but without the specific info needed, I created a duplicate track of the BD/CB track, deleted it and dragged the split off BD layer to it. I could see by comparing with the other tracks that it was just as desired, but when I went to save, another couple of hours of work lost.