User Manual

NOTE AND AUTOMATION EDITING
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Moving notes
Moving notes manually
D To move a note, click and drag it to a new position, or new pitch (note number), using the Selection Tool.
If several notes are selected, all will be moved. If Snap is on (see “Snap”), the moved events will keep their relative
distance to the Snap value positions. For example, if the Snap value is set to “Bar”, you can move the selected
notes to another bar without affecting their relative timing.
• By default, when manually moving notes to new pitches (note numbers), the notes will trigger and sound. This
makes it easier to move (transpose) the notes to where you want them.
If you don’t want notes to sound during editing, it’s possible to disable the function in the Preferences dialog by de-
selecting the “Trigger Notes While Editing” box:
The “Trigger Notes While Editing” function in the Preferences dialog
D If you hold down [Shift] when you drag, the movement is restricted to horizontal or vertical direction.
This helps you move notes without accidentally transposing them, or transpose notes without accidentally chang-
ing their position.
D You can also edit the note pitches numerically using the “Pitch (Transpose)” function in the Tool Window.
See “Transposing notes”.