Reference Manual

CHAPTER 10. EDITING MIDI NOTES AND VELOCITIES 134
10.4.6 Changing Note Length
Clicking and dragging on a note's left or right edges changes its length. Note length can
only be changed when Draw Mode is inactive, and will be quantized unless the
Alt
(PC)
/ (Mac) modier is held down while dragging.
Changing Note Length.
Tip: To set a group of notes to the same length, select them all, grab the end of the longest
one, drag them all down to zero length and then extend them.
MIDI Note Stretch
Three Variations Created
with the Stretch Notes
Command.
When multiple notes are selected in the Note Editor, the Stretch Notes command becomes
available from the context menu, if you invoke it with (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac). Note Stretch
markers will then appear in the Note Editor, allowing notes to be scaled proportionally in
time. The markers are a pair of downward-pointing indicators that snap to the beginning of
the rst and last notes in the selection.
By clicking and dragging one of the markers horizontally, the selected notes will move and
stretch so that they continue to occupy the same proportion of time that they did when they
were initially selected. The Note Stretch markers will always snap to the Note Editor's grid