Instruction Manual

434 Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
Adding and Editing Notes in the Piano Roll
A. Draw tool in velocity-edit mode B. Tooltip showing cursor position
C. Velocity column
Tooltips give you a constant readout of the cursor position, how much
you’ve edited the selection, and how many notes you’re editing.
In the picture below, the tooltip lists the current location of the cursor, how
far the selection has moved from its original location (1252 ticks to the
right), the current pitch level and MIDI note number of the cursor (E8 100),
how far from the note’s original pitch the cursor has moved (1 half-step
higher), and how many notes are in the selection.
When you drag multiple notes, if you enable Polyphonic Note Audition in
the Edit MIDI Event Type dropdown menu, the Piano Roll view “auditions”
them, so you can hear all of them as they pass through different pitch
levels.
To Edit Notes with the Draw Tool
1. If you want to edit multiple notes at the same time, select them with the
Select tool (see Selecting Notes for help). Editing any of the notes in
the selection edits all the selected notes in the same way.
2. Click to select the Draw tool. If the Draw tool button is in Auto-Erase
mode, it looks like this: . If the Draw tool is in Auto-Erase mode, use
the dropdown menu that’s next to it to disable Auto-Erase mode, unless
you want to delete notes.
3. Set the Snap to Grid to the desired value (if you’re editing in the Inline
Piano Roll view, make sure you use the PRV tab of the Snap to Grid
dialog).
4. Edit notes as described in the table: