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Details about a selected note can be viewed by context-clicking on it. The
dialog that pops up will also allow modification of all the properties of the
selected note(s). Individual properties can be modified more efficiently using
the techniques described below:
- Moving notes
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Right arrow and Left arrow move the selected note(s) early and later in time.
- Changing pitch values
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↑ increases the pitch of the selected notes.
↓ reduces the pitch of the selected notes.
If any of the selected notes are already at the maximum or minimum value,
no changes will be made to any of the notes, to preserve relative pitches.
This can be overridden with . The default shift
distance is one semitone. Use to alter this to
one octave.
- Changing velocity values
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↑ increases the velocity of the selected notes.
↓ reduces the velocity of the selected
notes.
If any of the selected notes are already at the maximum or minumum value,
no changes will be made to any of the notes, to preserve relative velocities.
This can be overridden with .
Presssing v will popup a dialog that will allow the setting of
the absolute velocity value of each selected note. Finally, the scroll wheel
⇑ ⇓ will also
adjust notes in the same way as the arrow keys.
Like the arrow keys, it only affects selected notes, not the note the pointer is over.
- Changing channel
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Press c to bring up a dialog that allows viewing and altering the
MIDI channel of the selected notes. If the selected notes use different
channels, they will all be forced to the newly selected channel.
- Changing start/end/duration
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, (comma) will alter the start time of the note.
. (period) will alter the end time of the note. Both keys will by
default make the note longer (either by moving the start earlier or the end
later). For the opposite effect, use ,/.. The note will be altered by the current grid setting.
To change the start/end positions by 1/128th of a beat, use the modifier in addition to these shortcuts.
- Quantization
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q will quantize the selected notes using the current quantize
settings. If the quantize settings have not been set for this session yet,
the quantize dialog will appear. q will display the
quantize dialog to allow resetting of the quantize settings, and then
quantize the selected notes. The default quantize settings are: quantize
note starts to the current grid setting, no swing, no threshold, full
strength.
- Step Entry, Quantize etc.
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