User`s guide

Chapter 16: MIDI Editing 213
Select Notes
The Select Notes command allows you to
further narrow a selection of MIDI notes
based on pitch. The command can be used
to select a single note or note range for the
entire length of a region or track, or to se-
lect the upper or lower voices within
chords.
Options for the Select Notes command in-
clude:
All Notes All notes are selected.
Notes Between Selects a range of notes be-
tween the specified upper and lower note.
Values for the notes can be entered in pitch
(C-1–G8) or MIDI note numbers (0–127).
Top Selects the highest note or notes in
each chord.
Bottom Selects the lowest note or notes in
each chord.
Selecting a Pitch Range of Notes
A common use for Select Notes is to select a
single note for the entire length of a region
or track. This is especially useful if you
want to select a note in a MIDI drum track
(hi-hat, for instance), and affect it over the
selected time range with the Quantize,
Transpose, or Change Duration command.
To select only the hi-hats in a General MIDI
drum track:
1 Using the Grabber or Selector, select the
range of MIDI notes that contains the note.
2 Choose MIDI > Select Notes.
3 Select the Notes Between option with the
note range set to F#1 and F#1.
For a General MIDI drum kit, the closed hi-
hat is assigned to F#1 (MIDI note number
42). If the hi-hat for your drumkit 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
chords.
2 Choose MIDI > Select Notes.
3 Select the Bottom option and leave the
number of notes set to 1.
4 Click Apply.
▲ In order for notes to be considered a chord,
their start times must be within five ticks of
each other.
Select Notes window