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Note Expression
Editing Note Expression data
Editing functions
Drawing in data
You can enter or modify curves using the Draw tool or the line tool. The editing is the
same as in the controller lanes, see
“Adding and editing events in the controller
display” on page 504. If the Object Selection tool is selected and the editor is open,
you can press [Alt]/[Option] to get the Draw tool.
You can enter lines and curves using the line tool in its various modes. This works just
as when editing in the controller lane, see
“Adding and editing events in the controller
display” on page 504.
Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
• To cut, copy, and paste Note Expression data for a single parameter in the editor,
use the corresponding commands on the Edit menu.
It is also possible to copy and paste data between different parameters.
Ö Pasting Note Expression data in the editor is restricted to the note (or notes, if they are
located at the same time position) for which the editor is open. However, you can
copy all Note Expression data from one note to another using a key command.
• To paste all the Note Expression data from one note to other notes, set up the key
command “Paste Note Expression” in the Key commands dialog (Note Expression
category).
This pastes all the Note Expression information of one or several notes for which
you have used the Copy command into the currently selected notes.
Using the “Paste Note Expression” command, you can copy the settings you made for
one note into several other notes, or copy the settings for several selected notes into
a number of other notes (which makes it easy to recreate specific drum patterns, for
example).
If Note Expression data is copied from several source notes to a number of destination
notes, the following applies:
• If the number of the source and destination notes matches, the data of the first
“source” note is pasted into the first “destination” note, the data of the second
source note into the second destination note, etc.
• If the number of source notes is smaller than the number of destination notes, the
source note data will be pasted repeatedly into the destination notes in the order in
which they appear.
When you copy the data from two source notes into four destination notes, for
example, the first destination note gets the Note Expression data from the first
source note, the second destination note the data of the second source note, the
third destination note the data of the first source note and the fourth destination
note the data of the second source note.
Deleting Note Expression data
• To delete all or the selected Note Expression data, use the Delete command on
the Edit menu or press [Backspace].
Moving Note Expression data
• To move all or the selected data of the active parameter, click with the Object
Selection tool in the editor (not in the stretch area at the bottom of the window)
and drag.
You can restrict the direction to vertical or horizontal by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command]
while dragging. When you hold down [Alt]/[Option] while dragging, the data is
copied instead.