Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Drawing notes
1. If you want to restrict note input to certain note values (e.g. sixteenth notes),
set the Snap value accordingly and activate Snap.
2. Select the Pencil tool.
You can toggle temporarily between the Arrow tool and the Pencil tool by holding
down [Command] (Mac) or [Alt] (Windows).
3. If needed, click in the piano keyboard display, drum sound list or slice list to
find the correct pitch.
If the track is connected to a device, this will play the corresponding note.
4. Click in the note display part of the lane, at the desired position.
A note will be inserted at the closest Snap value position.
D If you just click, the note will get the length of the Snap value.
This is true regardless of whether Snap is activated or not.
D If you instead click and keep the mouse button pressed, you can drag to
the right to set the length of the note.
If Snap is on, the length will be a multiple of the Snap value (unless you hold down
[Shift] while you drag). Also, see the note about drum note lengths below.
Selecting notes
To select notes in the Edit View, use one of the following methods:
D Click on a note with the Arrow tool to select it.
D To select several notes, hold down [Shift] and click.
You can de-select individual notes by [Shift]-clicking them again.
D You can also click and drag a selection rectangle around the notes you
want to select.
If Snap is on, the selection rectangle will be magnetic to the nearest snap value
positions. For example, if Snap is set to “Bar”, dragging a rectangle will select all
notes within an exact range of bars (and within the pitches enclosed by the rectan-
gle).
D You can select the next or previous note on the track by pressing the
right or left arrow key on the computer keyboard.
Holding down [Shift] and using the arrow keys allows you to make multiple selec-
tions.
D To select all notes on the track, use the Select All function on the Edit
menu.
Make sure that the correct lane (Key, Drum or REX) has focus first - otherwise you
may select all controllers or pattern changes. To set focus to a lane, click some-
where in it (focus is indicated by a thin extra border within the lane).
D To deselect all notes, click somewhere in an empty area.
Moving notes
D To move a note, click and drag it to a new position.
If several notes are selected, all will be moved. The individual distance between
the moved notes will be kept.
D If Snap is on, the moved events will keep their relative distance to the
Snap value positions.
For example, if Snap is set to “Bar”, you can move the selected notes to another
bar without affecting their timing.
D If you hold down [Shift] when you drag, movement is restricted to hori-
zontal or vertical only.
This helps you move notes without accidentally transposing them, or transposing
notes without accidentally changing their meter position.
Duplicating notes
To duplicate the selected notes, hold down [Option] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows) and
proceed as when moving notes.
Using Cut, Copy and Paste
You can move or duplicate events using the Cut, Copy and Paste commands on the
Edit menu.
D When you Cut or Copy, the song position is automatically moved to the
end of the selection (or, if Snap is activated, to the closest Snap value
position after the end of the selection).
You can use this for repeating events, as described on page 13.
D When you Paste, the events appear at the song position, on their original
track(s).
Resizing notes
When you select a note, a handle appears on its right edge. You can click on this han-
dle and drag to make the note shorter or longer.