Reference Manual

CHAPTER 10. EDITING MIDI NOTES AND VELOCITIES 138
The Edit menu's Select Loop command selects all notes that begin within the loop brace.
The Select Loop command can also be executed without the menu by simply clicking the
loop brace. This command can speed up editing when coupled with the loop brace's
shortcuts. Let's say you have arranged a nice 1-bar loop in the Note editor, and you want to
duplicate it a couple of times. You can click the loop brace to select the notes that begin
within the loop, execute the Edit menu's Copy command, shift the loop to the right by one
loop length with , and execute the Edit menu's Paste command.
Copying (Left) and
Pasting (Right) a Loop.
As we have already seen, creating new MIDI notes is as simple as activating Draw Mode
and drawing them into the Note Editor. MIDI notes can also be added and deleted by
double-clicking when Draw Mode is inactive.
Vertical movements in Draw Mode correspond to velocity changes. This means that, with
one horizontal motion and one vertical motion, you can draw multiple notes and their
velocities without releasing the mouse button. If you change velocity with this vertical
movement, Live will remember the change and use your new velocity on any notes that you
draw afterward.
You may sometimes, by dragging or by drawing, place a new note on top of one that already
exists. If the new note overlaps with the beginning of the original note, the original note will
vanish. The original note is invisible, but still exists, and will reappear intact if the new note
is moved away again. If the new note overlaps with the tail of the original, the original
note's length will change so that it lasts just until the new note's beginning. This, too, is
not an irreversible action, and the old note length will be restored if the new clip is again
moved.