Reference Guide

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Adding and Editing Notes in the Piano Roll

Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)

Adding and Editing Controllers in the Piano Roll

Editing Notes with the Draw Tool and the Select Tool

You can edit notes in the Piano Roll view and the Inline Piano Roll view with the same methods. The

Draw tool and the Select tool are useful for quick note editing. You can do the same edits with

commands in the Process menu (Length, Slide, Transpose). If you want to edit multiple notes at

the same time, first select them with the Select tool.

MIDI notes display their velocity value as a wide or narrow column. You can drag the column up or

down to edit the note’s velocity. Holding the Draw tool over the middle of the note in the upper third

of the note displays a small velocity column on the Draw tool to show that the tool is in the target

zone.

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 drop-down 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” on page 441). Editing any of the notes in the selection edits all the selected notes in the

same way.