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Adding and Editing Notes in the Piano Roll
Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
SONAR allows you to mute individual Note events directly in the Piano Roll view or inline Piano Roll.
Muted events are excluded from rendering during playback and MIDI meters do not light up for
muted events.
Event Mute is one of the programmable mouse Actions, which can be assigned to any mouse
button and key combination. By default, Event Mute is assigned to SHIFT+middle-click when using
the Select tool. For more information, see “Flexible Piano Roll tools” on page 457.
Muted events are shown using a variation of the Clip Mute color but only the outline of the events
are shown. In the following example, the first four Note events are Event-Muted. The last four Note
events are muted using the Mute tool on the clip. The Note events in the middle are not muted at all.
A. Event-Muted (hollow; the note outline uses the Clip Mute color) B. Unmuted events (track color) C. Muted
using the Mute tool on the clip (Clip Mute color)
To mute/unmute Note/Controller events
1. In the Piano Roll view or inline Piano Roll, click the Select button to enable the Select tool.
2. Hold down the SHIFT key and do one of the following:
• To mute/unmute only a single Note or Controller event. Click the middle mouse button on
the Note/Controller event you want to mute/unmute and release the mouse button.
• To mute/unmute multiple Note or Controller events. Click the middle mouse button on
any Note/Controller event you want to mute/unmute and drag the mouse over all other events
you also want to mute/unmute, then release the mouse button.
When dragging over multiple events, the events are temporarily drawn in a different color. All
touched events will automatically inherit the opposite mute state of the first event you click,
regardless of their current mute state. That is, all touched events are set to the opposite mute
state of the first event.
You can choose to abort the mute/unmute operation by pressing Esc before you release the
mouse button.
Note: These instructions apply to the default mouse assignments and will not apply if you have
re-assigned the Event Mute mouse action to different settings (see “Flexible Piano Roll tools” on
page 457). If your mouse does not have a middle button, you may want to reassign Event Mute
to another button.
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