Reference Guide

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Adding and editing controllers in the Piano Roll
Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)
Selecting controllers
To perform many editing procedures on controllers, you first need to select the controller events you
want to edit. A selected controller event turns dark when it is selected. You can select a single
controller event, multiple controller events of the same type, or all controller events.
To select controller events of the same type
1. Click the Edit Filter and select the event type you want to show in the MIDI data lane.
2. Select the Select tool in the Control Bar, and select one or more controller events by using
the following techniques:
• Drag a rectangle around the edit handles of the controller events that you want to select.
• SHIFT-click or SHIFT-drag to add other controllers to the selection.
• CTRL-click to or CTRL-drag toggle the selection state of a controller.
• Click and drag in the Time Ruler.
Select controllers within note duration
When editing MIDI data it is often necessary to align the timing of Controller events with that of Note
events. For example, Sustain Pedal (CC64) events need to move along with the notes they are
supposed to sustain, and Pitch Wheel events need to move along with the notes whose pitch they
are supposed to modify.
When the Select Controllers Along with Notes option is enabled, selecting a Note event or a
range of Note events will also automatically select any Controller events that exist within the time
range of the Note event(s).
Note events can be selected by clicking the notes or by lasso-selecting the notes. For more
information, see “Selecting notes” on page 684.
The following rules apply when multiple Note / Controller event types are selected:
• Dragging a Note event vertically will not affect the selected Controller event(s).
• Dragging a Note event in time (horizontally) will also drag the Controller event(s) along with it in
time.
• Dragging Controller events vertically will not affect the selected Note event(s).
• Dragging Controller events in time will also drag Note events along with them in time.
• If multiple Controller types are selected, only the type you click on can be dragged vertically. The
rest will only move in time (horizontally).