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Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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The MIDI Clip Properties
Select a MIDI clip by clicking on it, to access its properties (Fig. 4.3.9).
Name: The name is shown at the bottom of the clip in the arrange area.
Start/end: These are the points on the time-line at which this clip begins and ends. You can adjust
these elds manually for precise positioning if you desire.
Length: This eld shows the length of the clip. You can edit it manually if desired. Changing the length
will change the clip’s end point accordingly.
Offset: View/edit the relationship between the start of the MIDI data and the start of the clip. Recall
from the clip tools description that the contents of the clip can be moved along the time-line while the
clip itself remains xed in position; this eld shows that displacement.
Colour: You can assign a colour to the clip. Colours can be useful for helping to identify clips, or group-
ing certain types of instrument, or musical event, together.
Show/hide midi editor: Click this button to show or hide the MIDI editor for the selected clip.
Keyboard shortcut: Z.
Channel: This eld species which MIDI channel this clip will transmit on.
Velocity: This setting allows you to scale note velocities. A value of 100% leaves the velocities un-
touched, lower values reduce them. This control is non-destructive.
The Mute Button: To the right of the velocity slider there is a button represented by a speaker icon.
This button can be used to mute a clip. Muting a clip allows you to play the edit with that clip silenced.
Clicking the button again will un-mute the clip. A clip that has been muted, will have a somewhat dif-
ferent appearance to non-muted clips. This makes it easy to see at a glance whether a clip is currently
muted.
Insert program change: This button displays a menu (Fig. 4.3.10), from which you can access options
to edit any program change messages associated with the clip. Note that you can also add or edit pro-
gram changes manually in the MIDI editor. The MIDI editor is described in Chapter 4.4.
Figure 4.3.9
Figure 4.3.10