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MIDI processing
Making your settings permanent
Making your settings permanent
The settings described in the chapter “MIDI realtime parameters and effects” on page
449 do not change the MIDI events themselves, but work like a “filter”, affecting the
music on playback. Therefore, you may want to make them permanent, i. e. convert
them to “real” MIDI events, for example to transpose a track and then edit the
transposed notes in a MIDI editor. For this, you can use two commands from the MIDI
menu: “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” and “Merge MIDI in Loop”.
Freeze MIDI Modifiers
“Freeze MIDI Modifiers” applies all filter settings permanently to the selected track.
The settings are “added” to the events on the track, and all modifiers are set to zero.
The “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” function affects the following settings for MIDI tracks:
- Several settings on the main tab of the Inspector (program and bank selection and
the Delay parameter).
- The settings on the MIDI Modifiers tab (i. e. Transpose, Velocity Shift, Velocity
Compression, and Length Compression).
- The settings on the MIDI Inserts tab (for example, if you are using an arpeggiator
and want to convert the added notes to real events).
The following settings for MIDI parts are taken into account as well:
- The Transpose and Velocity settings for parts displayed on the info line – the
Volume setting is not taken into account.
Merge MIDI in Loop
The “Merge MIDI in Loop” function combines all unmuted MIDI events on all unmuted
tracks, applies MIDI modifiers and effects, and generates a new MIDI part, containing
all the events as you would hear them during playback. Proceed as follows:
1. Mute all the tracks that you do not want to include in the merge.
Instead of muting whole tracks, you can also mute individual parts.
2. Set up the left and right locators to encompass the area that you want to merge.
Only events starting within this area will be included.
3. Select the track on which you want the new part to be created.
If you do not select a track, a new MIDI track is created. If several MIDI tracks are
selected, the new part is inserted on the first selected track. Existing data on the
selected track can be kept or overwritten (see below).
4. On the MIDI menu, select “Merge MIDI in Loop…”.
The MIDI Merge Options dialog opens.
The following options are available:
Option Description
Include Inserts If this is activated, any MIDI insert effects and MIDI modifiers currently
activated for the tracks will be applied.
Include Sends If this is activated, any MIDI send effects currently activated for the
track(s) will be applied.
Erase Destination If this is activated, any existing MIDI data between the left and right
locators on the destination track will be deleted.