User guide

Chapter 17 Editing MIDI in the Hyper Editor 447
To copy selected events:
m Hold Option, and drag to the desired position and lane.
As you do so, a help tag will inform you of the position, event definition type and value
(if applicable).
You can also use the Clipboard to copy and move notes:
 Edit > Copy (or Command-C) copies notes into the Clipboard.
 Edit > Cut (or Command-X) moves the notes into the Clipboard.
 Edit > Paste (or Command-V) pastes them at the current playhead position, at their
original pitch.
You can also perform advanced copy and move operations within the Hyper Editor.
These allow you to directly swap events, or to merge a group of events from one
section of a region to the same, or another, region, as examples. For more information,
see “Advanced Note Copy and Move Options” on page 428.
Protecting the Position of Events
There are times where you will want to protect certain events from being moved. As an
example, several note events may be used to trigger footstep samples that match an
actor walking down a corridor, in a video soundtrack. You have already created the
music for this scene, but have been asked to increase the tempo to match several cuts
of different camera angles in the corridor. Obviously, a change in the project tempo will
move the events, resulting in out of sync footstep samples. Thankfully, Logic Express
has a feature that preserves the absolute time position of events.
To protect the position of one or more selected events:
m Choose Functions > Lock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).
This ensures that events that fall at a particular absolute time position: 1 hour, 3
minutes, 15 seconds, 12 frames, for example, will remain at this position when tempo
changes are made.
To unprotect the position of one or more events:
m Choose Functions > Unlock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).