Specifications

Chapter 24: MIDI Operations 375
3 Select the Notes Between option with the note
range set to F#1 and F#1 (if the MIDI Note Dis-
play preference is set to Standard Pitch).
For a General MIDI drum kit, the closed hi-hat is
assigned to MIDI note number 42 (F#1 at Stan-
dard Pitch). If the hi-hat for your drum kit is as-
signed to a different note, make sure to specify
it.
4 Click Apply.
Selecting Notes in a Chord
Another use for Select Notes is to select only the
upper or lower notes in a chord. Many times
you’ll want to affect only the upper or lower
notes in a chord—to boost their velocities, or
transpose their pitch.
To select only the bass notes in a chord:
1 Using the Grabber or Selector, select the range
of MIDI notes that contains the notes.
– or –
To affect all the MIDI notes on a track, click in
the track with the Selector, so that it contains a
blinking Edit cursor.
2 Choose MIDI > Select Notes.
3 Select the Bottom option and leave the num-
ber of notes set to 1.
4 Click Apply.
Split Notes
The Split Notes command has the same selec-
tion criteria as the Select Notes command, but
also lets you automatically cut or copy the se-
lected notes when clicking Apply.
To open the Split Notes window:
■ Choose MIDI > Split Notes.
One use for this command would be if you re-
corded a track with chords in the left hand and
melody in the right. With the Split Notes com-
mand, you could cut the melody notes and
paste them to another track so you could assign
them to play on a different device or channel.
Another use is split the various notes of a drum
track (such as kick, snare, and toms) from a sin-
gle drum track to create separate tracks for each
instrument.
To cut a specific pitch range of notes:
1 Using the Grabber or Selector, select the range
of MIDI notes that contains the notes.
– or –
To affect all the MIDI notes on a track, click in
the track with the Selector, so that it contains a
blinking Edit cursor.
2 Choose MIDI > Split Notes.
3 In the Split Notes dialog, select the option for
Notes Between and enter the low and high notes
for the pitch range.
In order for notes to be considered a chord,
their start times must be within five ticks of
each other.
Split Notes window