Specifications
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Using the Edit tools, notes can be inserted, deleted,
transposed, trimmed, and moved. For more infor-
mation, see “Manually Editing MIDI Notes” on
page 682.
Nondestructive MIDI Editing
While editing audio clips is usually nondestruc-
tive, this is generally not the case for MIDI clips.
For instance, if a MIDI clip resides in just one track
at a single location, editing for that clip is destruc-
tive. This means that altering the pitch, duration, or
placement of notes in Notes view permanently al-
ters the clip.
However, if the
Mirror MIDI Editing option is dis-
abled, when editing a MIDI clip that appears else-
where in the session (either on the same track at an-
other location or in a different playlist, or in
another track), editing is nondestructive and cre-
ates a new auto-created clip. To go back to the pre-
vious material, drag the original clip from the Clip
List, or return to a previously saved playlist.
Naming Clips
You can rename clips to give them more descrip-
tive names, or to simplify existing names. When
renaming a clip that was auto-created during edit-
ing, the clip becomes a user-defined clip and is dis-
played in the Clip List even when auto-created
clips are hidden.
To rename a clip on a track:
1 Do one of the following:
• Select the clip you want to rename and then
choose
Clip > Rename.
• With any of the Edit tools, Right-click the the
clip that you want to rename and select
Rename
from the pop-up menu.
• Press Control+Shift+R (Windows) or Com-
mand+Shift+R (Mac).
• With the Grabber tool, double-click the clip you
want to rename. For MIDI clips, the
Name Dia-
log
option must be selected as the Double-Click-
ing a MIDI Clip Opens
setting in the MIDI
Preferences.
2 In the Name dialog, type a new name for the
clip. If a whole-file audio clip was selected,
specify whether to rename just the clip, or both
the clip and the disk file.
3 Click OK to rename the clip.
One way to safely return to a track’s previous
state is with playlists. Before you edit notes,
trim clips, or rearrange the order of clips,
make a duplicate of the track’s existing play-
list and then edit the duplicate (see “Playl-
ists” on page 629).
To apply edits to all instances of a MIDI clip,
enable Mirrored MIDI Editing mode (see
“Mirrored MIDI Editing” on page 677).
For details on renaming clips, see
“Renaming Clips” on page 280.
Name dialog