Instruction Manual

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The Piano Roll View
Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
Adding and Editing Controllers in the Piano Roll
Working with Multiple Tracks in the Piano Roll
View
You can view as many tracks as you want in the Piano Roll view. When you
display several tracks at the same time in the Piano Roll view, you control
which track(s) you can see and/or edit by using the buttons in the Track List
pane. You can show or hide the Track List pane by clicking the Show/Hide
Track Pane button in the Piano Roll view toolbar.
If you want to edit the data in a track, you must make the track you want to
edit the current track. The name of the current track appears highlighted in
the Track List pane. To display the Track List pane in the Piano Roll view,
click the Show/Hide Track List pane button . The following shows three
tracks in the Track List pane:
To make a track the current track in the Track List pane, click on the track.
When a thin dotted line surrounds the track, it is the current track.
Tip: Clicking a note will make the note’s parent track the current track.
The following is a list of ways to optimize the multiple track functionality in
the Piano Roll view.
Selecting Tracks to View
Use the Pick Tracks combo button to assign tracks to the Track List
pane. Click on the left side of the Pick Tracks combo button to open the
Pick Tracks dialog box. Click on a track name to select it. Hold down the Ctrl
key and click more track names to select additional tracks. Click on the right
side of the Pick Tracks combo button to show the Show Previous/Next
Tracks popup menu. Selecting Show Previous Track(s) moves the track or
range of tracks down by one track number. Selecting Show Next Track(s)
Mute
Solo
Track’s data shown in
Notes pane
Current track
Track’s data hidden in Notes pane
Arm
Track disabled for track editing
Track enabled for track editing
Output