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Chapter 12 Edit MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor 352
Copy notes in the Piano Roll Editor
There are a number of ways to copy or move notes in the Piano Roll Editor. In addition to Option-
dragging or using the Copy and Paste menu commands, there are advanced Copy and Move
operations such as directly swapping events, or merging a group of notes from one section of a
region to the same region, or another region.
Copy notes
Do one of the following:
m Option-drag notes to a new position.
Tip: You can Option-drag notes between two Piano Roll Editor windows (showing dierent
regions, for example), or even between the Piano Roll Editor windows of dierent projects.
m Use any of the following Clipboard commands:
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Edit > Cut (or Command-X) to move notes into the Clipboard.
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Edit > Copy (or Command-C) to copy notes into the Clipboard.
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Edit > Paste (or Command-V) to paste notes at the current playhead position, at their
original pitch.
Copy or move a range of MIDI events
1 Dene the area that you want to move or copy using the left and right locators.
2 If you want to copy or move the events to another track, select the track you want to copy the
events to.
3 Set the playhead to the insert position.
4 Choose Functions > Copy MIDI Events.
5 In the Copy MIDI Events dialog, choose settings, then click OK.
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Mode pop-up menu: Choose one of the following options:
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Copy Merge: The copied data is blended with any data present at the destination position.
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Copy Replace: The data at the destination position is deleted, and replaced with the
copied data.
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Copy Insert: All data at the destination position is moved to the right, by the length of the
source area.
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Move Merge, Move Replace, Move Insert: These three modes work similarly to the Copy modes,
but actually move the selected events, removing them from their original positions.