Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Resizing notes
When you select a note, a handle appears on its right edge. You can click on
this handle and drag to make the note shorter or longer.
➜ If Snap is on, the end of the note will be magnetic to the Snap value
positions.
You can disable this function temporarily by pressing [Shift] when you
drag. This allows you to resize the note to any length, regardless of the
Snap value.
➜ If several notes are selected, all will be resized by the same amount.
About resizing drum notes
Drum notes can be resized as any other notes. However, the result of this
depends on the settings of the Decay/Gate switch and the Length knob for
the drum sound on the Redrum panel:
➜ If Decay mode is selected, the drum sound will play to its end, re-
gardless of the note length.
Or rather, it will fade out according to the Length setting.
➜ If Gate mode is selected, the note length affects the resulting
sound.
However, the maximum length of the sound is set by the Length knob -
the sound will be cut off after this length, regardless of the note length.
Finally, even if the Length knob is set to its maximum value, the sound
will not play longer than the length of the drum sample.
Deleting notes
To delete notes, select them and press [Backspace] or [Delete], or select De-
lete from the Edit menu.
Editing velocity
The velocity values of notes are edited in the Velocity lane.
The velocity values are shown as bars, with higher bars indicating higher velocity. Note
also that the color of the notes and bars reflect the velocity.
To change the velocity of a note, click on its velocity bar with the Pencil tool
and drag the bar up or down. You can also edit the velocity of several notes
by dragging the pencil across the bars, at the desired height.
Drawing a velocity ramp.
However, note the following feature:
! If you hold down [Shift] when you edit velocity values with the Pen-
cil tool, only the selected notes will be affected!
This can be very useful, especially in “crowded” sections with lots of notes.
Consider for example if you have a busy drum beat, and want to adjust the
velocity of the hi-hat notes only. Simply dragging with the pencil tool would
change the velocity of all other drum notes in the area, but if you first select
the hi-hat notes in the Drum lane and press [Shift], you can edit their velocity
without affecting any other notes!