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Pro Tools Reference Guide140
audition pitches. Arrows at the top and
bottom of the mini-keyboard (not available
in the smaller track heights) are used to
scroll the Notes display up and down.
The pitch range of MIDI notes that can be
displayed depends on the track height, and
on the current zoom value. Any time a
track’s notes do not fit within its current
height, notes above or below the viewed
area are displayed as single-pixel lines at
the very top and bottom of the range (see
Figure 7).
To scroll the Notes display up or down for a
MIDI track:
■ Click on either the up or down arrow of
the mini-keyboard.
– or –
With the Pencil tool selected, press Com-
mand+Option+Control (Macintosh) or
Control+Alt+Start (Windows) and drag up
or down.
Using the Edit window tools, notes can be
inserted, transposed, trimmed, and moved.
For more information, see “Manually Edit-
ing MIDI Notes” on page 202.
MIDI Regions Display
MIDI tracks can also be viewed as Regions,
which is similar to Waveform view for
audio tracks. While a track’s notes are visi-
ble in Regions view, individual note editing
is not available in this view. Instead, all ed-
iting occurs across a time range encompass-
ing all track data, including continuous
controller events, program changes, and
System Exclusive events.
Use Regions view to define regions that
represent song sections and clips, or to re-
arrange or assemble track material.
There are, however, a few things to keep in
mind when selecting, copying and cutting,
and trimming MIDI regions:
◆ When cutting or clearing a region selec-
tion 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 copying or cutting a region selec-
tion that includes a note’s end point (but
not its start point), the note remains and
overlaps the edge of the region.
Scroll arrow for mini-keyboard
Scrolling Notes display by dragging
MIDI region with note overlap