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Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
Adding and Editing Notes in the Piano Roll
MIDI note velocity colorization
PRVColorizeVelocity=<0 or 1>, default = 1
MIDI note colors are tinted depending on their velocities. Notes will appear darker for higher
velocities and lighter for lower velocities.
This feature may be enabled (1) or disabled (0) in the [WinCake] section of the Cakewalk.ini
file. For example:
[WinCake]
PRVColorizeVelocity=0
Note event colors based on velocity
By default, note events in the Piano Roll are colorized based on velocity. Darker shades of the basic
track color indicate higher velocities. Lighter shades of the basic track color indicate lower velocities.
This behavior can be bypassed by adding the following INI variable to the WinCake section of
Cakewalk.ini (see Cakewalk.ini):
PRVColorizeVelocity=0
To Edit Notes with the Select Tool
1. If you want to edit multiple notes at the same time, select them with the Select tool. Editing any of
the notes in the selection edits all the selected notes in the same way.
2. 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).
3. Edit notes as described in the table:
Note 2: If you prefer to edit velocity in the Controller pane, display the Controller pane (press
C), and use the Draw tool to drag horizontally through the vertical lines in the Controller pane
that represent the velocity of each note. You can also use the Draw tool or the Select tool to drag
the tip of a vertical line up or down. While you drag, a tooltip displays velocity and location data.
To do this Do this
Change the start time, but not the
duration
Drag the note left or right
Change the pitch Drag the note up or down.
Move selected notes, or a single note
only vertically, or only horizontally
Hold the SHIFT key down, and move the Select tool over a note so that
the cursor displays a horizontal double-ended arrow (if you want to drag
horizontally) or a vertical double-ended arrow (if you want to drag
vertically), and then move the note(s).
Table 83.