Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide524
There are a few things to consider when selecting,
copying and cutting, and trimming MIDI clips:
 When cutting or clearing a clip or clip group se-
lection that includes a note’s start point, the entire
note is removed. This is even the case when only a
portion of the note (that includes its start point) is
selected.
 When cutting or clearing a clip or clip group se-
lection that includes a note’s end point (but not its
start point), the note remains and overlaps the edge
of the clip.
 Similar rules also apply when MIDI clips or clip
groups containing MIDI clips are trimmed with
any of the Trim tools. If the MIDI clip’s start point
is moved beyond a note’s start point, the note is re-
moved. If the clip’s end point is trimmed so that a
note’s start point is within the clip but its end point
is not, the note remains and overlaps the edge of
the clip.
When moving and placing MIDI clips with over-
lapping notes, the notes always move with the
clips. When placing MIDI clips with overlapping
notes next to or near another clip, the overlapping
notes extend into the next clip on the track.
MIDI Clips Created on Barlines
When recording MIDI, or when manually entering
MIDI notes, the beginning and ending of resulting
MIDI clips are constrained to bar boundaries. This
facilitates arranging MIDI clips in a musically
meaningful way, in whole bar lengths.
The beginning of a recorded MIDI clip always
starts on the barline immediately before the first
MIDI note (Note On) of the clip. Likewise, the
MIDI clip ends on the barline immediately follow-
ing the last note (Note Off) of the clip.
MIDI Clips and Continuous Controller
Events
Continuous controller events reside in MIDI clips
and not in tracks. This means that when dragging
clips that contain controller data from either a track
or the Clip List, the controller data is written to the
destination track.
You can edit continuous controller events by
switching track views or by revealing the control-
ler lanes under the track.
Cutting a MIDI clip with note overlap
To separate MIDI notes, rather than leave
them hanging, when separating, cutting or
copying clips, make the Edit selection you
want, switch to Notes view and use the
Separate At Selection command, then switch
back to Clips view and make the edit
(separating, cutting, or copying).
For more information on editing MIDI con-
troller data, see Chapter 31, “MIDI Editing.”