Reference Manual

137 Editing MIDI Notes and Velocities
2. Click and drag vertically in the note ruler to change which octaves are shown, or drag
horizontally to change the vertical zoom size of MIDI notes and the keyboard.
3. Click and drag over one or more notes to select them, or over a portion of the editor’s
background to select a range of time. Then, double-click on the note ruler or time ruler to
automatically zoom in on your selection. If nothing is selected, double-clicking the note
ruler will zoom in on the area from the lowest to the highest note in the clip, while double-
clicking the time ruler will zoom out to show the time between the first and last note.
4. To zoom in and out around the current selection, use the computer keyboard’s [+] and [-]
keys.
5. The Clip Overview just beneath the MIDI Editor can also be used for navigation. It always
shows the complete contents of the selected MIDI clip. The black rectangular outline repre-
sents the part of the clip that is currently displayed in the Editor above. To scroll, click within
the outline and drag left or right; to zoom in and out, drag up and down.
6. Change the length of what is shown in the Editor by dragging the left or right edges of the
outline in the Clip Overview.
7. To quickly change what is shown in the Editor, click on a section that you want to examine
in the Clip Overview, then drag downwards to zoom in, or scroll by dragging left and
right.
The Control Bar’s Follow Switch.
The area displayed in the Note Editor can be set to scroll with playback using the Follow switch
from the Control Bar.
When Permanent Scrub Areas is enabled in Live’s Look/Feel Preferences, clicking in the scrub
area below the beat-time ruler starts playback from that point, rounded by the global quantiza-
tion setting. When the Permanent Scrub Areas preference is off, you can still scrub by [Shift]-
clicking anywhere in the scrub area or in the beat-time ruler. Learning about the loop/region
controls (page 116) and associated shortcuts can also be helpful in getting around in the MIDI
Editor and playing selections quickly and easily.