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-title: Change Note Properties
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-<p>
- 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:
-</p>
-
-<dl>
- <dt>Moving notes</dt>
- <dd>
- Right arrow and Left arrow move the selected note(s) early and later in time.
- </dd>
- <dt>Changing pitch values</dt>
- <dd>
- <kbd>↑</kbd> increases the pitch of the selected notes.<br />
- <kbd>↓</kbd> reduces the pitch of the selected notes.<br />
- 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 <kbd class="mod2">‌</kbd>. The default shift
- distance is one semitone. Use <kbd class="mod3">‌</kbd> to alter this to
- one octave.
- </dd>
- <dt>Changing velocity values</dt>
- <dd>
- <kbd class="mod1">↑</kbd> increases the velocity of the selected notes.
- <br/>
- <kbd class="mod1">↓</kbd> reduces the velocity of the selected
- notes.<br />
- 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 <kbd class="mod2">‌</kbd>.
- Presssing <kbd>v</kbd> will popup a dialog that will allow the setting of
- the absolute velocity value of each selected note. Finally, the scroll wheel
- <kbd class="mouse">⇑</kbd> <kbd class="mouse">⇓</kbd> will also
- adjust notes in the same way as the arrow keys.
- <p class="note">Like the arrow keys, it only affects selected notes, not the note the pointer is over.</p>
- </dd>
- <dt>Changing channel</dt>
- <dd>
- Press <kbd>c</kbd> 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.
- </dd>
- <dt>Changing start/end/duration</dt>
- <dd>
- <kbd>,</kbd> (comma) will alter the start time of the note. <br />
- <kbd>.</kbd> (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 <kbd class="mod1">,</kbd>/<kbd
- class="mod1">.</kbd>. The note will be altered by the current grid setting.
- To change the start/end positions by 1/128th of a beat, use the <kbd
- class="mod2">‌</kbd> modifier in addition to these shortcuts.
- </dd>
- <dt>Quantization</dt>
- <dd>
- <kbd>q</kbd> 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. <kbd class="mod2">q</kbd> 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.
- </dd>
- <dt>Step Entry, Quantize etc.</dt>
- <dd><em>missing</em></dd>
-</dl>
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