User Manual

TRACKS WINDOW
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To open an edit window, highlight the track name
or an event in the track and click as follows:
For your convenience, the Preferences command in
the Digital Performer menu (Mac OS) or Edit
menu (Windows) lets you decide which window
opens when you double-click a track. For more
information, see chapter 7, “Preferences and
Settings” (page 69). For a detailed explanation of
event editing, see Part 5 , “Editing” (page 309).
THE TRACK OVERVIEW
The Track Overview portion of the Tracks window
provides you with a global view of the MIDI and
audio data in a sequence. It is useful for getting a
“bird’s eye” view, arranging parts among tracks,
using edit commands such as Cut and Paste, and
other region operations that affect more than one
track at a time. It allows you to view and edit the
data in your sequence all at once instead of one
track at a time.
For more detailed editing of MIDI and audio tracks
together, see chapter 38, “Sequence Editor”
(page 355).
The time ruler
The Time Ruler displays time as regularly spaced
columns labeled in any one of Performer’s various
time formats. By default, one column equals one
measure of music (regardless of meter). You can,
however zoom the columns with the +/- buttons in
the horizontal scroll bar to show many measures
per column (for an even greater overview) or as
little as 30 ticks (for microscopic precision). To
change time formats, choose Time Formats from
the Setup menu.
The Time Ruler can also display markers. See
“Working with markers in the Time Ruler” on
page 174.
MIDI data
The Track Overview displays phrases of MIDI
events as blocks containing a miniature represen-
tation of the events inside the block. Digital
Performer automatically determines how to group
data into blocks. Purple bars inside a block
represent notes. Green bars near the bottom of the
block represent controller data. The blocks of
events can be selected, dragged, duplicated, and
otherwise edited as a single event.
To open this Do this
Your default editor
(as specified in Preferences)
Double-click
Event List Command–Option/Ctrl-Alt–
double-click
MIDI Editor Command/Ctrl–double-click
a MIDI track
MIDI Drum Editor Command–Control/Ctrl-Win–
double-click a MIDI track
QuickScribe Editor (MIDI) Control/Win–double-click
a MIDI track
Notation Editor (MIDI) Option–Control/Alt-Win–
double-click a MIDI track
Sequence Editor Shift–Control/Shift-Win–
double-click
Or
Double-click an audio track or
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