User Manual

Chapter 34: MIDI Editing 771
To duplicate notes when transposing in key (to
create chords):
1 Press Control+Option+Up/Down Arrows
(Mac) or Start+Alt+Up/Down Arrows (Win-
dows) to duplicate the notes in key.
2 Then Press Control+Up/Down Arrows (Mac) or
Start+Up/Down Arrows (Windows) to trans-
pose the duplicate notes to the desired chord
tone in the key.
3 Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add more notes to the
chord.
Trimming MIDI Notes with the Arrow
Keys
Use the Up and Down Arrow keys with key modi-
fiers to trim selected MIDI notes on MIDI and In-
strument tracks in Notes view or in MIDI Editor
windows.
To trim the note off value of selected notes
incrementallyTo trim the note off value of selected
notes incrementally by the current grid value, do
one of the following:
 Press Option+Left Arrow (Mac) or Alt+Left
Arrow (Windows) to shorten selected notes.
 Press Option+Right Arrow (Mac) or Alt+Right
Arrow (Windows) to lengthen selected notes.
To trim the note off value of selected notes
incrementally by the next larger grid value of the
current grid value, do one of the following:
 Press Option+Shift+Left Arrow (Mac) or
Alt+Shift+Left Arrow (Windows) to shorten se-
lected notes.
 Press Option+Shift+Right Arrow (Mac) or
Alt+Shift+Right Arrow (Windows) to lengthen
selected notes.
To trim the note on value of selected notes
incrementally by the current grid value, do one of
the following:
 Press Option+Control+Left Arrow (Mac) or
Alt+Start+Left Arrow (Windows) to lengthen
selected notes.
 Press Option+Control+Right Arrow (Mac) or
Alt+Start+Right Arrow (Windows) to shorten
selected notes.
To trim the note off value of selected notes
incrementally by the next larger grid value of the
current grid value, do one of the following:
 Press Option+Control+Shift+Left Arrow (Mac)
or Alt+Start+Shift+Left Arrow (Windows) to
shorten selected notes.
 Press Option+Control+Shift+Right Arrow
(Mac) or Alt+Start+Shift+Right Arrow (Win-
dows) to lengthen selected notes.
Editing MIDI Note Velocities with the
Arrow Keys
Use the Up and Down Arrow keys with key modi-
fiers to change the velocities of selected MIDI
notes on MIDI and Instrument tracks in Notes
view or in MIDI Editor windows.
To increase or decrease the velocities of selected
notes in increments of 5:
 Press Command+Up/Down Arrow (Mac) or
Control+Up/Down Arrow (Windows).
To increase or decrease the velocities of selected
notes in increments of 15:
 Press Command+Shift+Up/Down Arrow (Mac)
or Control+Shift+Up/Down Arrow (Windows).