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The MIDI editors
Key Editor operations
You can use the tools to the right of the chord type buttons to insert chords. Proceed
as follows:
1. Select the tool button to the right of the chord type that you want to insert.
2. Click in the event display, drag sideways to determine the length of the chord, and
up or down to determine its pitch.
If acoustic feedback is active, you hear the chord while dragging. A tooltip
indicates the root note and chord type of the inserted chord. Snap and “Length
Quantize” are taken into account.
Ö You can change the chord type by holding [Alt]/[Option] when dragging up or down.
You can use the chord type buttons to modify existing chords. Proceed as follows:
1. Select the notes of the chord that you want to edit.
If the chord is recognized, the root note, chord type, and tensions are indicated in
the “Chord Type” field. This also works with arpeggiated notes.
2. Activate one of the chord type buttons in the Triads or in the 4-Note Chords
section.
The selected notes are transposed to fit the chosen chord type.
3. Use the up/down arrow keys on your computer keyboard to change the pitch of
the chord.
To change the voicings, you can use the buttons in the Inversions and the Drop Notes
sections. These allow you to create the typical voicing of a piano, for example.
• To invert the chord, click the “Move highest note to bottom” or “Move lowest note
to top” buttons in the Inversions section.
The corresponding notes are transposed by as many octaves as needed.
• To move the second highest note down by one octave, click the 2 button in the
Drop Notes section.
• To move the third highest note down by one octave, click the 3 button in the Drop
Notes section.
• To move the second and fourth highest notes down by one octave, click the 2/4
button in the Drop Notes section.
You have two possibilities for adding Key Editor chords to the chord track. For more
information on the chord track, see
“Working with the Chord Functions” on page 542.
• To add the recognized chord indicated in the Chord Type field to the chord track,
click “Add to Chord Track”.
The chord event is inserted at the position on the chord track that corresponds to
the position of the MIDI notes. Any existing chord events at this position are
overwritten.
• To perform a chord analysis of the selected notes, click “Make Chords”.
If nothing is selected, the whole MIDI part is analyzed. For further information, see
“Extracting Chords from MIDI (Make Chords)” on page 552.
You can apply the chord events from the chord track to selected notes in the Key
Editor:
• To apply a chord event to the selected notes, click “Match with Chord Track”.
The chord event that is effective at the position of the first selected note is applied
to the selected notes, which are transposed. Only the basic chord type is applied.
Tensions are not taken into account.
Ö Only the first effective chord event is applied. If there are other chord events in the
range of the notes, they are not applied.