Menu Reference

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Menu Reference
MIDI menu
Open Key Editor
This opens the Key Editor for the selected MIDI part(s) or
track(s). This editor consists of a piano-roll type graphic
interface, with the notes shown as boxes in a grid.
Open Score Editor
This opens the Score Editor where MIDI data is inter-
preted as a musical score.
Open Drum Editor
This opens the Drum Editor which is designed especially
for editing drum and percussion tracks.
Open List Editor
This opens the List Editor. In this editor, MIDI notes, con-
trollers and other events are shown in a list.
Open In-Place Editor
This opens the In-Place Editor in the Project window. It
looks like a miniature Key Editor and allows MIDI editing.
Over Quantize
Quantizing is a function that automatically moves re-
corded notes, positioning them on exact note values. This
quantizes the selected MIDI parts or notes, according to
the current Quantize pop-up menu setting.
Iterative Quantize
Instead of moving a note to the closest quantize grid posi-
tion, Iterative Quantize moves it only part of the way. You
specify how much the notes should be moved towards the
grid with the Iterative Strength setting in the Quantize
Setup dialog.
Quantize Setup…
In the Quantize Setup dialog you can make various quan-
tize settings.
Advanced Quantize
Transpose…
This opens the Transpose dialog, where you can make
transpose settings for selected notes.
Merge MIDI in Loop
This combines all MIDI events between the left and right
locator on all unmuted tracks and generates a new MIDI
part, containing all the events as you would hear them play
back. The new part will end up on the selected track, be-
tween the locators. You are asked whether to include
MIDI insert effects and/or send effects and whether to
overwrite (erase) the data on the destination track.
A typical use for this is to “freeze” the settings you have
made in the MIDI Track Inspector, applying e.g. MIDI ef-
fects to a single part.
Freeze MIDI Modifiers
This function applies all filter settings to the respective
track and (in contrast to Merge MIDI in Loop) takes the re-
sult as the new standard.
Option Description
Quantize
Lengths
This will quantize the length of the notes without chang-
ing their start positions. At its most basic level, this func-
tion will set the length of the notes to the Length
Quantize value on the toolbar of the MIDI editors.
Quantize Ends The Quantize Ends function on the Quantize submenu
will only affect the end positions of notes. Apart from that,
it works just like regular quantizing, taking the Quantize
pop-up menu setting into account.
Undo Quantize You can revert the selected MIDI notes to their original,
unquantized state at any time. This is independent from
the regular Undo History.
Freeze Quantize There may be situations when you want to make the
quantized positions “permanent”. For example, you may
want to quantize notes a second time, having the results
based on the current quantized positions rather than the
original positions. To make this possible, select the notes
in question and use this function.
Part to Groove This menu item allows you to create a groove quantize
map from a selected MIDI part.