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Pro Tools Reference Guide752
Manually Editing MIDI Notes
All aspects of a MIDI note can be edited in the Edit
window or in a MIDI Editor window, including
start and end points, duration, pitch, and velocity.
The Selector, Grabber, and Pencil tools can oper-
ate on individual notes or groups of notes.
Selecting MIDI Notes
MIDI notes must be selected before they can be ed-
ited.
To select MIDI notes, do one of the following:
 With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool, Shift-
click each note.
 With any Grabber tool, move the cursor to
where there are no notes (the Marquee appears)
and click and draw a rectangle around the group
of notes you want to edit.
When using a Grabber tool, if any portion of the
rectangle touches a note (either its start or end
point), the note is included in the selection. How-
ever, selections made with a Grabber tool are ob-
ject selections and do not include underlying con-
troller and automation data for the MIDI track.
 With the Selector tool, drag across a range of
notes.
When using the Selector tool, a note’s start point
must be included in order for it to be selected.
When a MIDI or Instrument track is in Notes or
Clips view, selections made with the Selector tool
are range selections and include all underlying
controller and automation data.
To deselect one or more notes from a selection:
 With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool, Shift-
click the notes so they become deselected.
Selecting notes with a Grabber tool
Selecting notes with the Selector tool
With the Selector tool, Option-click (Mac) or
Alt-click (Windows) to get the Note Selector
tool in the Edit window and MIDI Editor win-
dows (the Selector tool always makes note se-
lections in the Score Editor). The Note Selec-
tor tool selects all MIDI notes within the
duration of the selection as objects and does
not select any other MIDI events (such as con-
troller data or program changes).
You can also select notes in the Select/Split
Notes window. See “Select/Split Notes Com-
mand” on page 1025.