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The MIDI editors
Score Editor operations
3. Select the notes that you want to move.
4. Click one of the selected notes and drag it to a new position and/or pitch.
The horizontal movement of the note is “magnetically attracted” to the current
Quantize value. The position boxes on the toolbar show what the new position and
pitch for the dragged note will be.
5. Release the mouse.
The notes appear at their new position.
• If you hold [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag, movement is restricted to vertical or
horizontal (depending on the direction in which you drag).
• You can also move selected notes by using key commands, as assigned in the
Nudge category in the Key Commands dialog.
When moving notes to the left or right using key commands, the notes will be
moved in steps according to the current Quantize value. The keys assigned for
up/down nudging will transpose notes in semitone steps.
Duplicating notes
1. Set the Quantize value and select the notes, as for moving.
2. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the notes to their new position.
• If you want to restrict movements to one direction, press [Ctrl]/[Command].
This works just as for moving, as described above.
• [Alt]/[Option] is the default modifier key for copying/duplicating. If you like, you can
change this in the Preferences dialog (Editing–Tool Modifiers page).
The entry for this is found in the Drag & Drop category (“Copy”).
Changing the length of notes
As described earlier (see “Getting the score displayed correctly” on page 533), the
displayed length of a note is not necessarily the actual note length, but also depends
on the Notes and Rests values for Display Quantize in the Staff Settings dialog. This is
important to remember when you change the length of a note, since it can lead to
confusing results.
There are several ways to change the length of a note in the Score Editor:
By using the note value icons on the extended toolbar
Using the extended toolbar is another quick way to set a number of notes to the same
length:
1. Select the notes you want to change.
2. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and click on one of the note icons on the extended
toolbar.
All the selected notes are now given the length of the clicked note.
By using the info line
You can also edit length values numerically on the info line, just like in the Key and
Drum Editors (see
“Editing on the info line” on page 499).
Splitting and gluing notes
• If you have two notes strung together by a tie and click on the “tied” note head with
the Cut tool, the note will be divided into two, with the respective length of the
“main” and the tied note.
• Conversely, if you click on a note with the Glue tool it will be joined to the next note
with the same pitch.