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Chapter 8 Editing MIDI Events
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Key Concepts
MIDI region:  A container for MIDI events—individual MIDI notes or commands—that
are generally created with a MIDI keyboard.
MIDI event:  Represents an individual MIDI note or command.
Piano Roll Editor:  Where MIDI note events are represented by horizontal rectangles,
aligned on a grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
Score Editor:  Where MIDI note events are displayed as traditional music notation.
Velocity:  Denes the force at which a note is played.
Transposition:  The process of moving a note event up or down in pitch.
Cycle function:  A function that constantly repeats the area between the left and right
locator positions.
Left and right locators:  Locators that dene the start and end points of a cycle range
in the Bar ruler.
Quantization:  The process of correcting the timing of your material.
Quantize pop-up menu:  A menu in the Piano Roll Editor that you use to correct the
timing of MIDI notes to the nearest selected musical time value.
Quantize button:  A button in the Piano Roll Editor that allows you to quantize
selected events using the value chosen in the Quantize pop-up menu.