Instruction Manual

456 Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
Selecting and Editing Events
3. Drag one of the selected clips to its proper destination—the Drag and
Drop Options dialog box appears.
4. Choose options and click OK.
All the selected clips move by the amount that you dragged the mouse.
Stretching and Shrinking Events
The Process-Length and Process-Fit to Time commands can be used to
stretch or shrink a portion of a project. Process-Length lets you stretch or
shrink the selection by a fixed percentage and makes the adjustment by
altering the individual events. A value of 200 percent, for example,
stretches the selection to twice its original length, while a value of 50
percent shrinks the selection to half its original length.
Process-Fit to Time stretches or shrinks the selection so that it ends at a
specific time, expressed in either measure:beat:tick (MBT) or
hours:minutes:seconds:frames (SMPTE) format. This command gives you
a choice of modifying the events or modifying the underlying tempo. This is
useful when you want a portion of a project to have an exact length. The
start time of the selection does not change, but the end time is altered as
necessary to fit the required time interval.
Both of these commands offer the option to stretch audio clips along with
the MIDI information. Sometimes you don’t want to adjust the speed of your
audio.
Here are some examples:
• If your project contains background music and a voice-over, you might
want to change the tempo of the background music without altering the
voice-over
• If you’re trying to modify the speed of some MIDI tracks to match a
sampled drum groove, you want to leave the audio unchanged
• If your audio consists solely of sound effects, you most likely do not
want to adjust them
Audio can be stretched or condensed up to a factor of 4 (e.g., it can be
shrunk to as little as 25 percent of its original length, or expanded to as
much as 400 percent of its original length).
You can also use the Process-Length command to alter only the start
times or the durations of notes. For example, changing the durations of
notes to 50 percent of their original length can create a staccato effect.